Sixth Annual European Summer School on Cold War History Trento, September 4-6, 2014
- PROGRAMME -
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HURSDAY,
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EPTEMBER15:30: Opening Remarks
15.45 – 18:45: Panel 1: The Developing and Non-aligned World Chair: Leopoldo Nuti
!Claudia Pina (Colegio de México) Breaking the Bipolar Constraints: Mexico’s Encounter with the Non-Aligned Movement, 1961- 1964
Comment: Sara Lorenzini
!Miguel Serra Coelho (EUI): A Valuable ‘Friend’: Portugal, Brazil and the Crisis of Goa, 1954- 61
Comment: Antonio Varsori
!Martin Deuerlein (University of Tübingen): The Birth Pains of Interdependence – Interpretations of Global Change and Soviet-American Relations, 1968-1983
Comment: Sara Lorenzini
!Roberto Cantoni (University of Manchester): Diplomacy and the Geosciences: Fifth Columns, Parallel Diplomacies and the Secret Battle for Algerian Oil
Comment: Kaeten Mistry
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EPTEMBER9:00-‐ Panel 2: Holes in the Curtain Chair: Antonio Varsori
!Peter Svik (University of Tartu): Exporting Communism or Earning Money? The Twisted Rationale for the Eastern Bloc Airlines’ Expansion in the Third World in Early 1960s Comment: Silvio Pons
!Paul Lenormand (Sciences Po): Importing Models, Maintaining Traditions: International Connections and Foreign Influence in the Czechoslovak Military (1938-1950)
Comment: Silvio Pons
!Iwa Nawrocki (Princeton): Cold War Catholic Transnationalism: Brazilian-Polish Intellectual Exchanges, 1978-1989
Comment: Sara Lorenzini 11:30: Coffee Break
12:00 - Panel 4: American Influence Chair: Leopoldo Nuti
!Una Bergmane (Sciences Po): The US Congress and the Fall of the Soviet Union: The Case of the Baltic states 1989-1991
!Marina Pérez de Arcos (Oxford): Last in. First out? Spain and the NATO Permanence Referendum (1982-1986)
Comment: Piers Ludlow 13:45 Lunch
15:00 – Panel 4: People as Political Props Chair: Federico Romero
!Sherzod Muminov (Cambridge): Cold War’s First Victims: Kan Sueharu’s Sacrifice, the Red Purge and the Returnees from the Soviet Union in Japan
Comment: Silvio Pons
!Emmanuel Comte (Sorbonne): Managing East-West Migration during the Cold War, from 1949 to 1956
Comment: Oliver Rathkolb
! Lorena De Vita (University of Aberystwyth): The Mistake of Dr Seydewitz: The Two German Foreign Policies Towards Israel, 1955-1960
Comment: Oliver Rathkolb 15:30: Coffee Break
16:00 – Panel 3 Comment and Discussion
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EPTEMBER9:30 – Panel 5: Definitions of Peace and Neutrality Chair: Piers Ludlow
!Emma Rosengren (University of Stockholm): From Nuclear Protection to Nuclear Danger – Gender in Sweden’s Nuclear Renunciation
Comment: Leopoldo Nuti
!Jelena Glisic (University of Tsukuba): Reaching out to the East: Japan’s Trade with Yugoslavia during the Cold War
Comment: Federico Romero
!Ned Richardson-Little (University of Exeter): Cracks in the Façade of Unity: The Failure of the Socialist Declaration of Human Rights 1985-1989
Comment: Federico Romero
11:15 Coffee Break
11:30-‐13:00 Comment and Discussion Closing remarks
FACULTY
Sara Lorenzini (co-‐organiser) is Senior Researcher and Associate Professor of International History at the School of International Studies of the University of Trento. Her research interests include the history and foreign policy of post WW2 Germany (especially East Germany), North-‐South and East-‐South relations, Italian foreign policy after 1945. She is currently working on a book project on the history of development aid during the Cold War. She has edited the collection of speeches and writings of Alcide De Gasperi (Il Mulino) and authored several books and articles in Italian and in English. Among her books: L’Italia e il trattato di pace del 1947, il Mulino, Bologna 2007; Due Germanie in Africa. La cooperazione allo sviluppo e la competizione per i mercati di materie prime e tecnologie, Polistampa, Firenze 2003.
Piers Ludlow is Reader in International History at the LSE and head of the LSE IDEAS Cold War Studies Programme. His main research interests lie in the history of Western Europe since 1945, and in particular in the historical roots of the European integration process and the early stages of development of the EU. He is also interested in the history of the cold war in Europe and is an editor of Cold War History. He has written two books: Dealing with Britain: The Six and the First UK Membership Application (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and The European Community and the Crises of the 1960s: Negotiating the Gaullist Challenge (Routledge: 2006). He is now at work on two more books, the first a detailed study of the Roy Jenkins’ presidency of the European Commission (1977-‐81), the second, a study of how the top-‐level transatlantic dialogue between the US and its principal European allies evolved over the course of the Cold War.
Kaeten Mistry is Lecturer in American History at the University of East Anglia, specialising in U.S. foreign relations, the international history of the cold war, and intelligence. Previously, he was a Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Warwick and IRCHSS Fellow at University College Dublin. He studied at the University of Birmingham, University of California, Los Angeles, and University of Padua, as well as holding visiting fellowships at NYU, Bologna, and Oxford. His first book The United States, Italy and the Origins of Cold War: Waging Political Warfare was published by Cambridge University Press in 2014. He has published articles in journals including Diplomatic History and Cold War History, and guest edited a special issue of Intelligence and National Security. He is currently working on two projects, the first on dissenting voices to U.S. foreign relations in the twentieth century, the second, exploring the rise of transnational national security whistle-‐blowers since the 1970s.
Leopoldo Nuti is Professor of History of International Relations at Roma Tre University, Co-‐ Director of the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project, and President of the Italian Society of International History. He has published extensively in Italian, English and French on US-‐Italian relations and Italian foreign and security policy. His latest books are La sfida nucleare. La politica estera italiana e le armi nucleari, 1945-1991 (September 2007) [The Nuclear Challenge: Italian Foreign Policy and Atomic Weapons, 1945-1991] and, as an editor, The Crisis of Detente in Europe. From Helsinki to Gorbachev, 1975-1985 (London: Routledge, 2008).
Silvio Pons is Full Professor of History of Eastern Europe at the University «Tor Vergata» in Rome and Director of the Foundation Institute Gramsci. He extensively worked on the Soviet Union as well as on Italian and international communism. His last publications include "Berlinguer e la fine del comunismo" (2006); "Il Dizionario del comunismo" (2006) and "Georgi Dimitrov, Diario. Gli anni di Mosca 1934-‐1945" (2002).
Oliver Rathkolb is Professor at the Institute for Contemporary History and the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. He was a Schumpeter Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University from 2000-‐2001 and Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago in 2003. He is author of several books focusing on contemporary history as well as editor and co-‐editor of several studies concerning interdisciplinary questions of contemporary history and communications/media history. His prize-‐winning study “The Paradoxical Republic. Austria 1945-‐2005” was published by Berghahn Books (New York/Oxford) in 2010. He is the managing editor of “Zeitgeschichte” (Contemporary History) and member of the advisory board of the House of European History (European Parliament, Brussels).
Federico Romero is Professor of History at the Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute, where he is pursuing a research project on “The integration of post-‐imperial Europe in a globalizing world, 1968-‐1991”. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Torino and subsequently taught at the London School of Economics, Bologna and Florence universities. A specialist on 20th Century international and transnational history, he worked on various aspects and moments of Trans-‐Atlantic relations, particularly the Marshall Plan and postwar reconstruction, on US foreign policy, on migration and European integration. His latest book is Storia della guerra fredda (Einaudi, 2009)
Antonio Varsori is full professor of history of international relations at the University of Padua, where he is also the head of the Department of Politics, Law and International Studies. He is the chairman of the liaison committee of historians of contemporary Europe at the EU Commission. He has published extensively on topics such as the cold war, the European integration, Italy’s foreign policy, and Britain’s foreign policy. Among his most recent publications are in the volume: “La Cenerentola d’Europa ? L’italia e l’integrazione europea dal 1947 a oggi” (2010), “European Union History Themes and Debates” ed. with W. Kaiser (2010), “Europe in the International Arena in the 1970s: Entering a Different World” ed. with G. Migani (2011), “L’Italia e la fine della Guerra fredda. La politica estera dei governi Andreotti 1989-‐1992” (2013). He is completing a general history of international relations from the Versailles Peace conference until today.
ORGANISERS
Simone Bellezza received his first PhD in 2007 from the University Ca’ Foscari – Venice with a dissertation on the Nazi occupation of Ukraine during WWII, which received the prize "Nicola Gallerano." In 2010 he received a PhD in Historical Studies from the University of San Marino, where he defended a dissertation on the Ukrainian national dissent in the 1950s and 1960s. In 2008 he was Shklar Fellow in Ukrainian Studies at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. From February 2011 he is temporary lecturer of History of Eastern Europe at the
University of Trento, where from February 2012 he is also research fellow in contemporary history.
Wes Ullrich is a PhD Candidate in the LSE International History Department and is in the process of submitting his thesis on ‘The Eisenhower Administration, Destalinisation and US Perceptions of the Soviet Union, 1953-‐1956’. He was formerly Pinto PhD Fellow at LSE IDEAS and a Marshall/Baruch Fellow. Before starting his PhD he taught various history and government courses at the secondary school level. He currently teaches ‘International History Since 1890’ and ‘The US and the Wars in Korea and Vietnam’ at the LSE. He has published in Cold War History, The Journal of Translatlantic Studies, and H-Diplo.
