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Posts tagged as “Cold War”

Conference — Women as Cold War Weapons series

By Anna Pazos on December 11, 2017

A student conference for Prof. Victoria Phillips’ course “Women as Cold War Weapons”. Featuring Volker Berghahn (Keynote Speaker), François Carrel, Carla Michelle Coley, Thai Jones, Line Lillevik, and Victoria Phillips. Panels: – The Communists are Coming! – Atomic Mothers and Their Cold War Children – The Power of the Individual – Performing the Cold War A light breakfast and lunch…

Commons: Public Spaces After Socialism

By Ben Dalton on April 24, 2017

Please join the East Central European Center and the Harriman Institute for a two day conference organized by Alan Timberlake and Angela Wheeler. For a century or more, citizens of the Eastern Bloc viewed public space as the primary setting for urban life. Socialist architects and planners envisioned common space as a transformative cultural force, deploying “social condensers” meant to…

Comecon and the Third World

By Ben Dalton on April 24, 2017

Please join us for a talk with Sara Lorenzini, Associate Professor of International History at the School of International Studies, University of Trento, Italy. This talk will deal with the political economy of East-South relations in the 1960s and 1970s, devoting special attention to the predicament of the Socialist countries with the concept of the Third World. Dr. Lorenzini argues…

Ballet in the Cold War: A Soviet-American Exchange

By Ben Dalton on April 18, 2017

On May 1, 2017, please join the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and the Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU for a seminar, “Ballet in the Cold War: A Soviet-American Exchange,” featuring CBA Fellow and musicologist Anne Searcy. Searcy will discuss the Bolshoi Ballet’s first-ever tour of the United States in 1959, in anticipation of the…