Events, News, & Training
The Peace and Conflict Center provides opportunities for active engagement in the community through ongoing events, service learning, and international programs. The Center features lectures, panel discussions, a film series, and cultural events that allow students, faculty and staff, and the broader Austin community the opportunity to engage with topics pertaining to social justice, conflict, and sustainable peace.
Peace in Relationships 2021-2022 Series
Fall 2021
- Understanding Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Yourself and Others with Dr. Karen Rayne, October 28, 2021
- The Conflict of Coming Out (and coming out again and again and again) with Dr. Karen Rayne, November 18, 2021
- Communicating for Relationship Wins with Dr. Duana Welch, December 2, 2021
Spring 2022
- The Hard Questions: When and How to Ask and Answer to Find Healthy Love with Dr. Duana Welch, January 27, 2022
- Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma, and Consensual Nonmonogamy with Jessica Fern, M.S. February 24, 2022
- Good Grief: How to heal from heartbreak and learn to love again with Dr. Duana Welch March 31, 2022
- Mapping Your Nervous System w/ PolyVagal Theory with Jessica Fern, M.S. April 28, 2022
CINEMA OF CONFLICT & TRANSFORMATION 2021-2022 SCREENINGS
Please follow link to find more information on the film, discussants, and registration. We look forward to seeing you there!
Fall 2021
- Exterminate All the Brutes OCTOBER 27TH
- Bisbee ’17 NOVEMBER 10TH
Spring 2022
- Dawnland FEBRUARY 16TH
- No One Knows About Persian Cats MARCH 9TH
- Paris is Burning APRIL 13TH
Past events worth revisiting!
Cinema of Conflict & Transformation 2020-2021 Season
Peace in Relationships Webinar 2020/2021 Series
Coping with Relationship Pain During Covid and Beyond
Healthy relationships require effective ways to deal with conflict. During tough times like Covid, our coping tools can get strained, and we might engage in hurtful patterns of interacting. How do we understand ourselves and others, and make decisions that avoid needless heartache? In this four-part webinar series, Love Factually author Dr. Duana Welch will present a science-based perspective on all these topics:
- Attachment Styles
- Forgiveness
- Avoiding Abusers
- Grieving a Loss
Discover Past Events
Behind Closed Doors: Child Welfare and Community Resilience During Covid-19, May 14, 2020
Join the Peace & Conflict Studies Center Thursday, May 14th at 6 PM to hear from Child Protective Services’ Disproportionality Manager Tanya Rollins, MSW and CPS Fatherhood Specialist Kenneth D. Thompson, Sr, for Behind Closed Doors: Child Welfare and Community Resilience During Covid-19.
Learn about the impacts of Covid-19 on child welfare, how Child Protective Services is responding to reports during quarantine, and how you can safely contribute to community resilience by maintaining and cultivating social connections in the face of physical distancing measures. Crucially, this conversation will be grounded in a discussion of equity; acknowledging the underlying risk factors posed by social inequities in our community that compound present public safety concerns for marginalized families and children.
Peace in Relationships: Leveraging Conflict for a Happier Life During and After the Pandemic with Dr. Duana Welch, April 24, 2020
During the pandemic, some of us now have too much time together—and others too little. These extremes can bring out the best in us, yet stress all too often brings out the worst. In this talk, you’ll learn about coping with conflict now and in the future. What do people—including romantic partners– tend to argue about? Can you solve all your differences? Why do happy couples have more conflict than those who are struggling? What does healthy conflict look like? And how can you turn your inevitable conflicts in almost any relationship into emotional closeness rather than distance? In this talk, the author of the Love Factually books, Dr. Duana Welch, will present a science-based perspective on all these topics and more.
Peace and Conflict Studies Symposium Events
“It’s a day for our students to see connections between the seemingly disparate areas of their educational requirements, their own lives, local and global issues, and learn how they can get engaged in their community.”
— Dr. Shirin Khosropour, ACC Peace & Conflict Studies director
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Archived Peace and Conflict Events
This page features archival information and video footage from select Peace & Conflict Studies events in recent years.
Click the below links for information about specific events.