On April 29-30, 2016, CCWS hosted a symposium in honor of Toshi Hasegawa, who retired in March 2016 after more than a quarter-century of devoted service to our department and university. Over a dozen colleagues and former students, based in universities throughout the country as well as in Canada and Japan, gathered to share the fruits of their original scholarship in areas to which Professor Hasegawa has devoted his career: the Cold War, Soviet and Russian history, great-power diplomacy, and the end of the Pacific War. The theme of the symposium was Connections: among the various facets of the Cold War, broadly defined; between Cold War studies and adjacent fields of international history and international relations, and, most of all, among the wide community of scholars, at all career stages, whose work bears the imprint of Professor Hasegawa's mentorship, collaboration, criticism, encouragement, and spport. The symposium (informally dubbed "Toshifest") was sponsored by CCWS and consponsored by the UCSB Department of History and the College of Arts and Letters.

 

The symposium schedule is available here.