THE WOMEN’S LIBRARY, LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY

SYMPOSIUM
THATCHER AND THE END OF THE COLD WAR
FRIDAY 26TH NOVEMBER
PROGRAMME


10.00  Registration

10.30  Opening Remarks


10.35 -11.15 Dr Harriet Jones, Freelance historian of contemporary
British politics and Curator of Iron Ladies, Women in Thatcher’s Britain,
talks about her research for the exhibition


11.15-11.30 Coffee


11.30-12.30 Thatcher’s Foreign Policy
Lord Powell, Former Adviser to Margaret Thatcher, in discussion with Dr
Harriet Jones, A World Transformed: How the Cold War was Won


12.30-1.30 Lunch


1.30-2.30.1 Women against Thatcher's Britain: Women's involvement in
the protests against nuclear weapons
Dr Holger Nehring, Pembroke College, University of Oxford and
Greenham Revisited: some reflections on Greenham, feminism and the end of
the Cold War
Sasha Roseneil, Director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies

2.30-2.45 Tea

2.45-3.45 The Iron Maiden at War: Thatcher as a war leader
   Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, Professor of War
Studies, King’s College London, followed by discussion led by Professor
Kathleen Burk, Professor of Rhetoric, University College London

3.45 -4.00 Closing Remarks

Tickets: £30, £25 concs inc. lunch

Speaker biographies and session abstracts will be given on booking.

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