This event will include presentations by a select group of international authors and artists whose work appears in a recent publication on contemporary conflicts. The 2025 special issue of Criminological Encounters focuses on the urgent need to understand war from a global anti colonial, criminological, and interdisciplinary perspective, giving space to resistance and activism. By bringing together scholars and artists, the event fosters dialogue across disciplines and creative practices to critically examine how violence, surveillance and resistance are experienced, represented and silenced in different contexts.
The event features the two guest editors, Hannah Wilkinson (Nottingham University) and Teresa Degenhardt (Queen’s University Belfast), as well as the authors Dina Belluigi (Queen’s University Belfast), Fiammetta Bonfigli (University of Vienna), Iva Ramuš Cvetkovič (University of Ljubljana), and Maryna Shevtsova (Ukraine / Katholieke Universiteit Leuven).
The discussion will centre on the use of international courts in relation to the genocide in Gaza, the Israeli deployment of AI powered technology to target civilians, feminist perspectives on the conflict in Ukraine, and reflections on the criminalisation of dissent, resistance, and remembrance across the African continent.
The public will also have the opportunity to attend a short theatre performance of The Gaza Monologues (Ashtar Theatre Company, Jerusalem) by Curtis Lee Ashqar, as well as a photo and video exhibition entitled Criminalisation of Intellectual Thought: Representations for Consciousness about Dissent, Resistance and Remembrance.
Through these combined elements — academic presentations, visual art, and performance — the event promotes interdisciplinary dialogue, critical reflection, and creative collaboration on the harms of war and the possibilities for solidarity and resistance.
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