CfP: Crossing the Iron Curtain: Tourism and Travelling in the Cold War
CALL FOR PAPERS : Crossing the Iron Curtain: Tourism and Travelling in the Cold War 7-8 April 2017 Netherlands Deadline : 15 December 2016 The image of the Iron Curtain as an impenetrable obstacle to mobility between East and West during the Cold War has long been criticized. However, studies of encounters between East and West and their importance in the cultural Cold War has tended to concentrate on professionals such as the artists...
CfP: The Opening of the East and the Fall of the Iron Curtain
Call for Papers The Opening of the East and the Fall of the Iron Curtain: The Role of Europe’s Christian-Democratic and Conservative Parties, 1989. Deadline: March 20, 2016 The upheavals of 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe are of singular importance from the perspective of research on Christian Democratic and conservative parties. Among others, the following areas need to be more closely examined: 1. The conceptualization, aims, and...
CfP: Cold Warriors
Cold Warriors. The Cultural Avant-Garde of the Bipolar Struggle Date : November 26-27, 2015 Place : Sciences Po, Paris, France Deadline : May 31, 2015 For most of the second part of the twentieth century, geopolitical issues remained at the center of the historiographical debate on the Cold War. Culture and ideology, however, have gained more and more attention in recent historiography. New emphasis has been placed on the role of...
CfP: New Subjectivities, New Emotions, New Politics
New Subjectivities, New Emotions, New Politics: Oppositional Politics and Counter Cultures Across the Iron Curtain During the Long 1970s International Workshop at the Center for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, Europe University Viadrina Frankfurt, Germany – June 12-13, 2015 Deadline for submitting abstracts: November 1, 2014 Deadline for submitting full papers: May 1, 2015 During the ‘long’ 1970s, a remarkable plethora of...
International Symposium
25 Years of the Central European Initiative and 25 Years from the Fall of the Iron Curtain Date: Thursday, 10 April 2014, 2:00pm to 7:00pm Venue: Denys Holland Lecture Theatre (UCL Faculty of Laws) Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens WC1H 0EG London On the occasion of the Austrian chairmanship of the Central European Initiative (CEI) this symposium will bring together academics and former political decision makers to analyse and discuss...
