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  • flyer for Barbara Walker, "Fathers and Sons and the Origins of Cold War ‘Area Studies’ in the United States"

    Barbara Walker, “Fathers and Sons and the Origins of Cold War ‘Area Studies’ in the United States”

    HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Barbara Walker is Professor of Russian history at the University of Nevada, Reno. She has published on a broad range of historical topics in the area of Russian and Soviet intellectual life and its economic foundations, social organization and culture. More recently, she has branched out to explore the nature of expertise, specifically “information expertise,” […]

  • 6 people in camoflauge uniform wading in a river. UCSB Cold War Working Group

    CWWG Workshop–Addison Jensen, “WITCHIEs, Chickies, and Donut Dollies: The Women’s Rights Movement and American GIs”

    Zoom CA

    On Saturday, February 27, from 2 to 4 pm, the Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will host a workshop. They will read and discuss a dissertation chapter, “WITCHIEs, Chickies, and Donut Dollies: The Women’s Rights Movement and American GIs,” by Addie Jensen, a doctoral candidate in the UCSB history department. This […]

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  • Text of Humanities Decanted with wine being poured into a vase. Book cover of Making Art Work by W. Patrick McCray

    Humanities Decanted–W. Patrick McCray, “Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture”

    Zoom CA

    The IHC's Humanities Decanted series invites all to a dialogue between Patrick McCray (History) and Alan Liu (English) about McCray’s new book, Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture (MIT Press, 2020). Audience Q&A will follow. Despite C. P. Snow’s warning, in 1959, of an unbridgeable chasm between […]

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  • Mattie Webb in front of Cape Point South Africa sign

    CWWG Workshop–Mattie Webb, “Beyond Desegregation: Waging a Battle Against Apartheid in the South African Workplace”

    Zoom CA

    On Saturday, April 24, from 2 to 4 pm, the Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will host a workshop. They will read and discuss a dissertation chapter, “Beyond Desegregation: Waging a Battle Against Apartheid in the South African Workplace,” by Mattie Webb, a doctoral candidate in the UCSB history department. This workshop […]

  • Flyer for Virtual Conference for Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster on 4/29/21 from 4PM-5PM

    Interdisciplinary Conference on “Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster”

    Zoom CA

    The interdisciplinary virtual conference Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster will take place on Friday, April 30, 2021 at 9:00am-4:00pm (Pacific Time, US & Canada), when an international slate of speakers representing a variety of disciplines will share their insights on the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.    The day before, an associated Carsey-Wolf […]

  • Flyer for Zoom talk for The Center of Cold War Studies & International History by Dr. Nancy Mitchel - Andrew Young: Challenging Anglo-Saxon Foreign Policy on 5/20/21 from 11AM to 12:15PM PDT

    Center for Cold War Studies Talk: Nancy Mitchell, “Andrew Young: Challenging Anglo-Saxon Foreign Policy?”

    Zoom CA

    Andrew Young, one of Martin Luther King's top aides and a former member of Congress, served as Jimmy Carter's ambassador to the United Nations. Outspoken and controversial, Young questioned prevailing Cold War assumptions. "Communism has never been a threat to me," he said. "Racism has always been a threat—and that has been the enemy of […]

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  • Talk by Mateo Jarquin, “Managaua 1979,” Monday, April 20, 4 pm, HSSB 4041

    HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Professor Mateo Jarquin of Chapman University will be giving a talk titled "Managua 1979: International and Transnational Origins of the Cold War’s Last Great Revolution."   After the Cuban Revolution, armed movements across Latin America embraced violent struggle as a path to social transformation. Yet only one managed to seize power: Nicaragua’s Frente Sandinista de […]