Arts & Conflict Hub

The Arts and Conflict Hub based in the Department of War Studies at King's College London provides a focal point for work exploring the relationship between the arts and conflict, including visual arts, dance, music, theatre and film. Using artistic mediums to communicate, teach and research the complexities of conflict we aim to expand the interdisciplinary agenda of war studies, opening new dialogues and engaging new audiences.

The hub aims to bring artists and scholars together to share their work and ideas fostering a space for creative collaboration.

Members

Leonie Ansems de Vries

Reader in International Politics

Ammar Bajboj

Visiting Research Fellow

Neville Bolt

Reader in Strategic Communications Education

Christine Cheng

Senior Lecturer in International Relations

Baptist Coelho

Vinicius de Carvalho

Vice Dean (International), Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy

Pablo de Orellana

Lecturer in International Relations, Department of War Studies, War Studies Online Deputy Chair

Tiffany Fairey

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Rebekka Friedman

Senior Lecturer in International Relations

Lola Frost

Research Fellow

James Gow

Professor of International Peace and Security

Jan Honig

Visiting Professor

Vivienne Jabri

Professor of International Politics

Rachel Kerr

Professor of War and Society

Craig Larkin

Reader in Middle East Politics and Peace and Conflict Studies

Milena Michalski

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Kieran Mitton

Reader in Conflict, Security and Development

Alessio Patalano

Professor of War & Strategy in East Asia

Jayne Peake

Practice Partner

Penelope Quinton

PhD student

Imaging Peace

Imaging Peace is a Leverhulme funded multi-year, multi-country study of peace photography.

Imaging Social Justice

Imaging Social Justice is an initiative encompassing different modalities to make tangible human experiences of everyday violence and struggle for justice.

Traces of War Inigo Rooms exhibition view Photo Kate Anderson

Traces of War Exhibition

The art works reveal the sheer power of the everyday, as life itself and in its most ordinary makes its presence felt in the most dangerous locations of war.

Truth Tellers

The Truth Tellers project seeks to understand the ‘unspeakable’ aspects of descriptions, narratives and other representations, in both text and images.

Art & Reconciliation

Conflict, Culture and Community’ is an innovative collaboration between King’s College London, the London School of Economics and the University of the Arts in London that aims to improve our understanding of a major current and future global security challenge.

Art & Reconciliation Org

Hidden Voices

A multi-partner project which investigates how conflict shapes experiences of trauma and marginalization.

Hidden Voices

Art, Conflict and Remembering Exhibition: The Murals of the Bogside Artists

This powerful and topical exhibition tells the story of the Troubles through the twelve large-scale murals of The People’s Gallery in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

Art Conflict and Remembering: The Murals of the Bogside artists

VEM+Exhibition: Art & Exclusions

This series presents the work of four artist/researchers collaborations; a poet, a visual artist, an actor and playwright, an animation artist, and four social scientists working on questions of exclusion, stigmatisation, marginalisation, conflict and violence.

VEM+Exhibition: Art & Exclusions

Previous Events

The Arts & Conflicts hub holds events including screenings, performances and recitals with post event discussions with artists and academics.

Reconciliations

The Exchange

The Exchange is a space for collaboration and innovation: a place where research from across the social sciences is communicated and generated in creative ways.

The Exchange Space

Baptist Coelho

Baptist Coelho is an artist from India who lives and works in Bombay. Since graduating from the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design in 2006, he has been extremely active as a practicing artist, with critically acclaimed solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries in India, as well as internationally.

Baptist Coelho

Lola Frost

Dr Lola Frost is an artist /scholar lives in London and a Visiting Professor in the Department of War Studies. Her career as an artist spanning 30 years has included exhibiting in South Africa and in the UK. Her work is included in several major public collections in her native South Africa. Initially this work registered the impact of civil unrest, apartheid, race and gender. Since relocating to the UK in 2002, her feminist painting practice might be characterised as risky and sublime. Her academic career as a senior lecturer in South Africa and part-time tutor in London has involved the teaching of art history and art theory

Lola Frost

Dr. Milena Michalski

Dr. Milena Michalski is a Visiting Research Fellow and Artist in Residence for ‘Art and Reconciliation: Conflict, Culture and Community’, an AHRC-funded, inter-disciplinary, collaborative project bringing together academics and artists from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, the LSE and LCC, University of the Arts London.

Dr Milena Michalski