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Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 22:05:27 -0400
From: Serguei Alex. Oushakine <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Fellowship: Project on the Cold War as Global Conflict (NYU)
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/icas/
Project on the Cold War as Global Conflict
Starting in September 2001 the Center's principal Project will be the "Cold War as Global Conflict." The purpose of the Project is to question and rethink the dominant paradigms of the Cold War as an episode in national and international history, and in the process to create an international network of scholars whose work relates to the Cold War.
The Project begins by questioning the usual chronology and geography of the Cold War as an East-West conflict that began with the end of World War II and ended in 1989. That interpretation does not provide a way of understanding decolonization, national liberation, social revolution and civil war, development and underdevelopment, and the racial and ethnic conflict seemingly endemic to the international system that preceded and followed the Cold War.
The project will place the multiple connections between the Cold War and the globalized present at the heart of its collective inquiry. Every aspect of the terms "Cold War" and "globalization" are open to question, starting with their assumed spatial and temporal dimensions, origins, objectives, and even protagonists.
In sum, over the next three years, ICAS will consider the structures of power - intellectual, economic, social, political, religious, and cultural - as they have developed locally and globally from 1945 to the present.
2002-2003): Everyday Life, Knowledge, Culture
The second year will look at the realms of everyday social life, knowledge, and culture nationally and transnationally. In particular we will consider how processes of Americanization and Sovietization and resistance to them constructed varied domains of daily life. Topics could include the effect of the Cold War on public health, education, the welfare state and trade unions; the development and direction of academic disciplines; gender and race relations; class dynamics within and between nations; religion; mass and high culture including art, architecture, film and other media; the rise of "Big Science" and the national security state; changes in transportation, information and communications systems.
The deadline for receiving Fellowship Applications for the second year is January 15, 2002. It, too, will hold a weekly seminar; and for information about it please contact Allen Hunter. [log in to unmask]
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