Cold War Archives Research (CWAR) Workshop and Conference

RSVP not required – Seating will be first come, first served.

Link to PDF of conference program here

12:55-1:00pm – Introductory Remarks

Victoria Phillips, Adjunct Lecturer, European Institute & Coordinator, Cold War Archives Research Project

1:00pm-1:45pm – Keynote Speaker

Patryk Babiracki, Author of Soviet Soft Power in Europe, Assistant Professor in Russian and East European history at the University of Texas-Arlington and a Volkswagen-Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Zentrum fur Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam

1:50-2:55pm – The Cold War Institutionalization of Truth, Religion, and Morality

Commentator: Thomas Kent, Former President, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University

Presenters:

• Sreya Pinnamaneni: Truth and Its Derivatives: Radio Free Europe, Radio Prague, and the Response to the Slánský Trial in Czechoslovakia
• Kento Morie: Religion and the Rockefeller Foundation: Funding for International Relations Studies and Christian Morality in the Cold War – Intention, Evaluation, Interests
• Nick Cohen: Propagandizing the Academy: Scholarly Exchanges in Socialist Poland beyond Sociology

3:00-3:15pm – Coffee and Tea Break

3:15-4:00pm – Works in Progress: “Subversive” Practices and the USSR

Commentator: Patryk Babiracki, Author of Soviet Soft Power in Europe, Assistant Professor in Russian and East European history at the University of Texas-Arlington and a Volkswagen-Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Zentrum fur Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam

Presenters:

• Daria Franklyn: Samizdat: Production of Alternative Systems of Thought and Knowledge
• Dante Matero: AIDS, Capitalism, and the Soviet Man

4:05-4:30pm – Hard Power Meets Soft: Presentation of M.A. Thesis

Commentator: François Carrel-Billiard, Associate Director of the European Institute

Presenter:

• Andrew Craig Carroll: The NATO Multilateral Force: Driver of Nonproliferation in European Security

4:30-5:00pm – Closing Remarks

Thomas Kent, Former President, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University

Organized by Victoria Phillips. Sponsored by The European Institute, The Harriman Institute, & The Department of History

More information about the CWAR Program: europe.columbia.edu/content/cwar