International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War

The GWU/UCSB/LSE International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War will be taking place here at UCSB April 14-16, 2011, in the Harbor Room, on the lower level of UCen. The conference is an annual event jointly sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History, along with affiliated Cold War centers at George Washington University and the London School of Economics. The conference rotates among the three university campuses, and this year is UCSB’s turn. Twenty-two graduate students from all over the world are taking part in the conference, presenting papers covering a wide array of topics relating to the Cold War. (See attached schedule.) It’s shaping up to be a great event, and we cordially invite you to attend.
The students’ papers have been submitted and uploaded onto a password-protected web site, and conference attendees are encouraged to read as widely in the papers as possible prior to the event. Anyone interested in attending the conference can contact me at this email address, and I will provide him or her with the url and password.

Please join us for this exciting event! The schedule is as follows:

THURSDAY, APRIL 14

5:00-8:00 pm—Orientation, Reception, and Dinner

(Including presentation by Tsuoyoshi Hasegawa on his new edited volume, The Cold War in East Asia, 1945-1989, and comment by Arne Westad, London School of Economics)

FRIDAY, APRIL 15

8:15-9:00—Breakfast

Session 1: 9:00-10:30—Nuclear Weapons

Chair: Jason Parker, Texas A & M

Mary McPartland, George Washington University
“Captured Colleagues: British Scientists’ Advice about Their German Colleagues Detained at Farm Hall, 1945-46”
Comment: Peter Westwick, University of Southern California

Anthony Crain, Ohio State University
“Neutron Diplomacy”
Comment: Hope M. Harrison, George Washington University

Jason Saltoun-Ebin, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Ronald Reagan and the Strategic Defense Initiative”
Comment: Peter Westwick, University of Southern California

Session 2: 10:40-12:10—Europe

Chair: Salim Yaqub, University of California, Santa Barbara

Weston Ullrich, London School of Economics
“Same as the Old Boss? U.S. Policy and the Malenkov Interregnum, 1953-1955”
Comment: Donal O’Sullivan, California State University, Northridge

Bernhard Blumenau, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
“The Other Battleground of the Cold War: The UN, West Germany, and the Struggle Against International Terrorism in the 1970s”
Comment: Hope M. Harrison, George Washington University

Una Bergmane, Institute d’Etude Politique Paris
“French, American, and German Foreign Policy Toward the Lithuanian Crisis of 1990”
Comment: Mary Sarotte, University of Southern California

12:10-1:10—Lunch

1:10-2:15 Keynote Address

Mary Sarotte, University of Southern California

“The International Legacy of 1989”

2:15-3:00—Plenary discussion on subject TBA, led by Hope M. Harrison, George Washington University

Session 3: Africa—3:15-4:45

Chair: Mhoze Chikowero, University of California, Santa Barbara

Alessandro Iandolo, Oxford University
“The Rise and Fall of the ‘Socialist Model of Development’ in West Africa, 1957-1964”
Comment: Arne Westad, London School of Economics

Jamie Miller, Cambridge University
“‘This Bastion Against Communism’: South Africa and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire, 1973-74”
Comment: Jennifer De Maio, California State University, Northridge

Nathaniel Powell, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
“Saving Mobutu: The International History of Africa’s First Peacekeeping Force”
Comment: Jennifer De Maio, California State University, Northridge

6:00 pm—Dinner at the home of Salim Yaqub

SATURDAY, APRIL 16

9:00-9:20 Breakfast

Session 4: The Arab and Muslim Worlds—9:20-10:50

Chair: Donal O’Sullivan, California State University, Northridge

Paul Baltimore, University of California, Santa Barbara
“From the Camel to the Cadillac: American Perceptions of Saudi Arabian Modernization and Consumption in the Early Cold War”
Comment: Christopher Endy, California State University, Los Angeles

Brian Lawatch, George Washington University
“American Foreign Policy in France and the Maghreb: The 1958 Sakiet Crisis and the Anglo-American Good Offices Mission”
Comment: Salim Yaqub, University of California, Santa Barbara

Hanna Jansen, University of Amsterdam
“Gorbachev’s Multipolarity: A Clash of Civilizations?”
Comment: Arne Westad, London School of Economics

Session 5: U.S. Domestic Affairs—11:00-12:30

Chair: Darlene Rivas

Amanda Schlumpberger, University of Kansas
“‘Like Landing on the Moon: African Students, the Cold War, and Civil Rights in the United States in the 1960s”
Comment: Sara Pugach, California State University, Los Angeles

Eric Fenrich, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Guns, Butter, or Rockets: The Evolution of the American Impetus during the Race to the Moon”
Comment: Tom Devine, California State University, Northridge

Rachel Winslow, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Preserving the Black Family: Transnational Adoption, Social Policy, and Race during the Vietnam War”
Comment: Christopher Endy, California State University, Los Angeles

12:30-1:15 Lunch

Session 6: East Asia—1:15-3:05

Chair: Xiaowei Zheng

Lyong Choi, London School of Economics
“The Peaceful ‘War’: The Nixon Doctrine and South Korea’s Northern policy, 1969-1971”
Comment: Toshi Hasegawa, University of California, Santa Barbara

Helen Pho, University of Texas, Austin
“The Johnson Administration, the NLF, and the Kidnapping of Gustav Hertz during the Vietnam War, 1965-1967”
Comment: Thomas Devine, California State University, Northridge

Brian Hilton, Texas A & M University
“‘A Tolerable State of Order’: The United States, Taiwan, and the Recognition of the People’s Republic of China, 1948-1979”
Comment: Thomas Maddux, California State University, Northridge

Anna Armentrout, University of California, Berkeley
“Containing the Cold War: The Fulbright Hearings, Veteran Experience, and Ending the War in Vietnam”
Comment: Thomas Maddux, California State University, Northridge

Session 7: Latin America and the Caribbean—3:15-4:45

Chair: Sara Pugach, California State University, Los Angeles

Jorge Rivera Marin, Cornell University
“Breaking the Covenant: The United States, Cienfuegos, and the Collapse of U.S.-Cuban Relations, 1957-1958”
Comment: Darlene Rivas, Pepperdine University

Aragorn Storm Miller, University of Texas, Austin
“Caribbean Crisis: The U.S. Struggle with Venezuela, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, 1958-1961”
Comment: Jason Parker, Texas A & M University

Ivan McLaughlin, University College Cork, Ireland
“Sheriff No More: The Vietnam Legacy in US-Nicaraguan Relations during the Carter Era”
Comment: Brian O’Neil, California State University, Long Beach

4:45-5:00—Closing Comments

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