This exciting new initiative is a collaboration between the Cold War Studies Project at LSE IDEAS and the Cold War Cultures network at the University of Sheffield, two of the most important centres for the study of the Cold War in the UK.
This lecture series will bring leading academics to present their latest research on the Cold War at both universities.
Drawing on a range of approaches, including political, social, cultural, and social aspects of the Cold War, this initiative aims to deepen our understanding of the Cold War and to foster fruitful academic collaboration both within the UK and internationally.
Monica Kim, ‘The Korean War and East Asia through the Prism of the Interrogation Room’
Susan Carruthers, ‘Victors, Vanquished, and Victims: US Occupation Soldiers in Postwar Europe and Asia’
Sarah Snyder, From Selma to Moscow: How Human Rights Activists Transformed U.S. Foreign Policy
Jason Parker, Mad Men in the Tropics: The USIA and the Accidental Birth of the ‘Third World’
“What Will the Trump Presidency Mean for Asia?” Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University
“Cold War Cures: Psychiatry as Alliance Politics in Sixties Britain and the United States” Alexander Dunst, U of Paderborn, Germany
Circumventing the Cold War. The parallel diplomacy of economic and cultural exchanges between Western Europe and Socialist China in the 1950s, Angela Romano (EUI) and Valeria Zanier (LSE)
“The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century,” Mark Bradley, Bernadotte E. Schmitt Professor of International History at the University of Chicago.
“Nuclear Families: Radioactive Risk After 1989,” Dan Grausam, Lecturer in English Studies, Durham University
“The place of Europe in the Late-Cold War Rise of Globalization,” Federico Romero, Professor of History of Post-War European Cooperation and Integration, European University Institute, Florence.
“Operational Screens 1700/2000: Projection, Possession, War,” Pasi Väliaho, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications, Goldsmiths University of London
“Rebooting the Cold War: Western Triumphalism and the Foreign Policy of Popular Culture,” Penny Von Eschen, L. Sanford and Jo Mills Reis Professor of Humanities, Cornell University
