Event Archive

2023

Workshop: Discussion of Billy Marino's Paper, "Seeing Mars: How the First Close-Up Images of Mars Reshaped Understanding of the Red Planet’s Environment in the 1960s"
  1. June 3, 2023 - 11:00am to 12:30pm
Workshop: Discussion of Isidro González's Paper, “Making Eugenic Field Workers: Shaping a Profession, Shaping Selves, 1910-1924”
  1. May 22, 2023 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Book Talk: "Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord: The United States since 1945"
  1. May 3, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm
Films of the Cold War Presents: Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  1. April 13, 2023 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Workshop: Discussion of Nick Cohen's Paper, "Forging an International Backstop: Commercial Banking, Foreign Policy, and the Empowerment of the IMF, 1973 – 1981"
  1. March 4, 2023 - 11:00am to 12:30pm
Book Talk: "Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia"
  1. February 13, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Workshop: Discussion of Mika Thornburg's paper "Selling Self-Discovery: Constructing a Desire for Female Travel in Postwar Japan, 1960-1985"
  1. January 21, 2023 - 11:00am to 12:30pm

2022

Book Talk - "Freeze! The Grassroots Movement to Halt the Arms Race and End the Cold War"
  1. May 25, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
2022 New Scholars International Conference on the Cold War
  1. April 28, 2022 - 6:00pm to April 30, 2022 - 6:00pm
Workshop: Discussion of Neil Johnson's paper 'A Competition in Brains': Manpower Policy and the Political Economy of the Cold War, 1945-1962
  1. April 9, 2022 - 11:00am to 12:30pm
Workshop: discussion of Nicole de Silva's paper, “From the Kitchen Table to the Peace Table: Women's Internationalist Organizations and the Consumer Politics of Postwar Planning, 1939–1945”
  1. February 26, 2022 - 11:00am to 12:30pm

2021

Andrew Young: Challenging Anglo-Saxon Foreign Policy?
  1. May 20, 2021 - 11:00am to 12:15pm
Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster
  1. April 29, 2021 - 4:00pm to April 30, 2021 - 4:00pm
History Beyond the Academy: A Conversation
  1. April 24, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
CWWG Workshop: "Beyond Desegregation: Waging a Battle Against Apartheid in the South African Workplace"
  1. April 24, 2021 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
CWWG Workshop: "WITCHIEs, Chickies, and Donut Dollies: The Women’s Rights Movement and American GIs"
  1. February 27, 2021 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Speech, White Supremacy, and Insurrection
  1. February 9, 2021 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm

2020

Call for Papers: 2020 UCSB/GWU/LSE International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War
  1. April 30, 2020 to May 2, 2020
Impeachment in Historical Perspective
  1. February 11, 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
McCarthy
  1. February 3, 2020 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm