Event Archive

2025

Call for Papers: 2025 UCSB/GWU/LSE International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War
  1. May 8, 2025 - 6:00pm to May 10, 2025 - 6:00pm

2024

Films of the Cold War Presents: Iran—The Evolution of Revolution
  1. October 24, 2024 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Workshop: Discussion of Alexandra Noi's Paper: "The Gulag Labor Camps as Laboratories of Carceral Eugenics"
  1. May 25, 2024 - 11:00am to 12:30pm
From the Reagan Revolution to the Trump Insurrection: The Role of the Religious Imaginary in American Politics
  1. May 22, 2024 - 5:00pm
Cold War Insights: Talks by Hayate Murayama and Shelby King
  1. April 25, 2024 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Navalny and Putin, Two Poles of Russia
  1. April 25, 2024 - 12:30pm
Workshop: Discussion of Matt Brown's Paper: "The Spirit of Tashkent: Soviet Internationalism, Peaceful Coexistence, and Third World Conflict"
  1. April 20, 2024 - 11:00am to 12:30pm
The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism
  1. February 20, 2024 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Book Talk: “Mystery Children: The Stasova International Children’s Home During Stalin’s Purge”
  1. February 12, 2024 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm

2023

Regina Mamou, "Cold War Explorations"
  1. December 7, 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
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