CfP: Divided Cities and Contested Cities during the Cold War Workshop in Gorizia, Italy 20-23 March 2025
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CfP: Divided Cities and Contested Cities during the Cold War Workshop in Gorizia, Italy 20-23 March 2025

Workshop in Gorizia, Italy 20-23 March 2025 Jointly organized by the University of Udine, Cold War Studies/Harvard University, and Friuli Storia This workshop will bring together scholars from various countries to investigate the history of divided cities and contested cities during the Cold War. The workshop builds on the international workshops on “Cold War Borders and Borderlands in Europe and Northeast Asia, 1944-1991” (held in...

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A Vatican Atlantic Alliance? Pius XII and the role of US papal diplomats in the Cold War
Nov14

A Vatican Atlantic Alliance? Pius XII and the role of US papal diplomats in the Cold War

Time: Fri Nov 18, 2022, All Day  Location: Rome Global Gateway At the end of World War II, as a result of cooperation between the Holy See and Washington in the containment of communism and the work of charity and assistance to the people of Europe, several priests and bishops from the United States took on roles of particular importance in the central and peripheral organs of papal diplomacy. These included Msgr. Walter S. Carroll of...

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CfP: Cold War Borderlands in Europe and Northeast Asia, 1944-1991
Apr22

CfP: Cold War Borderlands in Europe and Northeast Asia, 1944-1991

STUDYING REGIONS ALONG THE IRON CURTAIN APPROACHES TO NEW RESEARCH  Workshop in Udine, Italy 9-12 March 2023 link >> Jointly organized by the University of Udine, Cold War Studies/Harvard University, and Friuli Storia This workshop will bring together scholars from various countries to discuss key issues pertaining to Cold War borderlands in Europe and Northeast Asia (i.e., regions along the dividing line between East and West...

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From Stalin to Mao
Feb27

From Stalin to Mao

Elidor Mëhilli From Stalin to Mao Albania and the Socialist World Elidor Mëhilli has produced a groundbreaking history of communist Albania that illuminates one of Europe’s longest but least understood dictatorships. From Stalin to Mao, which is informed throughout by Mëhilli’s unprecedented access to previously restricted archives, captures the powerful globalism of post-1945 socialism, as well as the unintended consequences of...

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Bridging the Baltic Sea
Nov30

Bridging the Baltic Sea

LARS FREDRIK STÖCKER Bridging the Baltic Sea Networks of Resistance and Opposition during the Cold War Era Tracing the origins, evolution, and goals of Polish and Estonian émigré politics in Cold War Sweden and its linkages with both the host and homeland societies, this book investigates the transnational dimension of resistance and opposition to the communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. The analysis of the constantly...

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