Originally launched at the Hellenic Parliament Foundation by the President of the Greek Parliament, Nikolaos Voutsis, the exhibition aims to highlight a new perspective on the peace protests that took place in Europe throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s in retaliation to the nuclear arms race.
The acclaimed exhibition has been launched in Sheffield by Dr Eirini Karamouzi, from the University’s Department of History, in order to showcase a fresh and comparative view on the anti-nuclear and anti-militarist peace protests that were held throughout the continent, particularly in Greece, Italy and Spain. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue emphaises the intense relationship between governments, nuclear strategies and the peace movement organisation.
Created in partnership with Dr Giulia Quaggio, a Max Batley Peace Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Sheffield, the exhibitions also intends to act as a reminder of the threat that nuclear weapons still pose to humanity.
Dr Karamouzi has said that “The exhibition gives people a chance to explore this complex but important part of European history and they can see how citizens across the continent mobilised and campaigned for peace.”
The exhibit will feature an array of pop music, literature, material from anti-war conferences, leaflets of diverse peace movements, photos of demonstrations, and oral history testimonies in order to demonstrate how the message of peace enclosed different meanings and manifested itself in a variety of ways.
