Daughter of ther Cold War
Grace Kennan Wernecke, Daughter of ther Cold War (Pitt Russian East European, 2018) Grace Kennan Warnecke’s memoir is about a life lived on the edge of history. Daughter of one of the most influential diplomats of the twentieth century, wife of the scion of a newspaper dynasty and mother of the youngest owner of a major league baseball team, Grace eventually found her way out from under the shadows of others to forge a dynamic...
The Kremlinologist: Llewellyn E Thompson, America’s Man in Cold War Moscow
6 aprile 2018, 10-11.30 Wilson Center, Washington (USA) In The Kremlinologist, diplomat Llewellyn E. Thompson’s daughters, Jenny and Sherry Thompson, trace their father’s journey from boyhood in rural Colorado and New Mexico to US ambassador to the USSR to presidential advisor on Soviet Affairs. What started as a private exploration into their family’s history, filled with anecdotes and documents from their family archives, evolved...
From Warfare to Welfare : Trauma in the emerging field of Psychiatry in Yugoslavia in the aftermath of the World War II
L’EHESS vi invita alla lecture “From Warfare to Welfare : Trauma in the emerging field of Psychiatry in Yugoslavia in the aftermath of the World War II ” tenuta da Heike Karge (Università di Regensburg/ Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung) nell’ambito del seminario« Histoire de la protection sociale en Europe centrale et du Sud-Est » EHESS (sala 6), 105 boulevard Raspail, Parigi Mercoledì 28...