INTERNATIONAL
GRADUATE STUDENT
CONFERENCE ON THE
COLD WAR
Hosted by LSE
Thursday 11th May -
Saturday 13th May 2023
Location: SAL.B.07 (previously named 32L.B.07), at the London School of
Economics and Political Science
Organisers: Head of the Cold War Studies Programme Professor Vladislav
Zubok; Administrative Assistants Jeff Hawn and Max Smith
The Annual Conference is sponsored by and rotates among:
The London School of Economics Department of International History
The George Washington University Cold War Group (GWCW) of the Institute for
European, Russian, and Eurasian Affairs (IERES), the Elliott School of
International Affairs
The Centre for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) at the
University of California, Santa Barbara
The organizers of the conference gratefully acknowledge the assistance of: The
faculty, staff and student of the LSE Department of International History and
our sister institutions.
Conference Details
4:00pm – 6:00pm: Conference Reception (drinks and light dinner service)
6:00pm – 8:30pm: A Keynote Conference Lecture and the Annual Lecture
of the International History Department at LSE by Ada Ferrer, including
post-Annual Lecture reception (Wolfson Theatre)
Day 1 Thursday 11th May - Evening
Day 2 Friday 12 May - Morning
Ronan Mainprize, (University of Warwick), “A Cable from Saigon: CIA
Intelligence Collection during the Vietnam War, 1963-1969.”
Lorenzo Bernardini (University of Pisa), “A West Berlin of the Middle East.
The MNF in Beirut between Cold War rhetoric and regional realities (1982-
84).”
Shatrunjay Mall (University of Wisconsin), “Post-War Pan-Asian
Internationalism in Japan and India (1945-1960).”
Liye Hong (GWU), “Chinese Romanian relations in the Cold War.”
Chia-Li (Leo) Chu University of Cambridge Seeds for the Free World: The
Geopolitics of Agricultural Science in Taiwan and Southeast Asia, 1960-89
9:00am – 9.30am: Breakfast
9:30am – 11am: Panel 1. Cold War Frontlines
Chair: Nigel Ashton (LSE)
Discussants: Matthew Jones (LSE) and Salim Yaqub (UCSB)
11:00am – 11.15am: Coffee Break
11:15am – 12:45pm: Panel 2. Asia’s Contexts
Chair: Hope Harrison (GWU)
Discussants: Elizabeth Ingleson (LSE) and James Hershberg (GWU)
Felipe Colla de Amorim (Leiden University), “The Birth of a Discipline: the
Ford-Iuperj grant agreement and the modernization of political science in
Brazil (1967-1973)”
Noel George (LSE), “Citizenship and Religion in the Writings of Ambedkar,”
Addie Jensen (USB), “Backlash Blues”: The Civil Rights Movement, Black
Power, and Black American GIs During the Vietnam War.
12:45pm – 1:45pm: Lunch
1:45pm – 3.15pm: Panel 3. Intellectual and Social Intersections
Chair: Salim Yaqub (UCSB)
Discussants:Tanya Harmer and Piers Ludlow (LSE).
3:15pm – 3.30pm: Coffee Break
3.30pm – 5:00pm: Outlines of Cold War Studies: Past, Present, and the Future
(Moderator Hope Harrison, GWU)
6:30 PM: Dinner for all Conference Attendees Ship Tavern 12 Gate St
Day 2 Friday 12 May - Afternoon
Claude Ewert (University of Cambridge), “Change and Continuity for the EC
from the end of the Cold War to the post-Soviet Space.”
Jeff Hawn (LSE), “Democratic or Soviet? American Perception of the
Congress of Peoples’ Deputies, 1990-1993.”
Mattie Webb (USB), “’A Matter of Principle’: Early 1970s Corporate America,
the South African Worker, and African Americans in Foreign Affairs.”
Emma Orchardson (University of Warwick), “The hawks and the doves:
Kamuzu Banda’s anti-communism, 1964-68.”
Chloe Mayoux (LSE), “Nigerian and British attitudes to France’s Saharan
nuclear tests during African decolonisation (1959-60).”
Jan Kozdra (LSE)- “Alternative Infrastructures: Poland and shaping of early
post-Colonial Nigeria, 1958-1970.”
9:00 - 9.30 AM: Breakfast
9:30am – 11am: Panel 4. Late Cold War Transitions
Chair:Vladislav Zubok (LSE)
Discussants: Piers Ludlow and Svetozar Rajak (LSE)
11am – 11.15am: Coffee
11.15am – 12.45pm: Panel 5. African Theatres
Chair:Steve Brady (GWU)
Discussants: Luc-Andre Brunet (Open University) and Natalia Telepneva
(University of Strathclyde)
Day 3 Saturday 13 May - Morning
Fionntan O’Hara (LSE), “Utilising the Cold War to gain international support:
refugees in Honduras during the 1980s.”
Natali Francine Cinelli Moreira (Kings College London and University of Sao
Paulo) “Typical Communist-manipulated propaganda”: Anglo-American
efforts against the 1975 World Congress for International Women’s Year in
East-Berlin”.
Bianca Trifoi (GWU), “’Our Society is for our Kids and Descendants’: Families,
Childrearing, and the North Korean State in the 1950s-60s.”
12:45pm – 1.45pm: Lunch
1:45pm – 3:15 pm: Panel 6. Gender, Family, Refugees in Cold War Mirrors
Chair: Tanya Harmer (LSE)
Discussants: Vladislav Zubok (LSE) and Hope Harrison (GWU)
Guests have time to make their way home or time to chat and de-brief from
the conference
6:30pm: Dinner for organisers of the conference Boulevard Brasserie 40
Wellington St
Day 3 Saturday 13 May - Afternoon
