Havighurst Center for Russian & Post-Soviet Studies
Annual International Young Researchers Conference
CULTURE, PRACTICES AND THE MEMORY OF THE COLD WAR
Organizers: Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, Lynn Stevens
Miami University
Oxford, OH
October 25-27, 2007
Almost twenty years have passed after the end of the Cold War. This
geopolitical cleavage defining the second half of the 20th century was not
only a period of fierce competition between two military superpowers, but
it also engendered specific ways of thinking, feeling and acting for
millions of people on both sides of the Iron Curtain. On the one hand,
the military rivalry had promoted the vision that casts the world into
competing binaries of good and evil. On the other hand, it generated
popular resistance and subversion of the official propaganda, creating
anti-war movements, counter-cultural trends in music, theater and art,
thereby creating a space for alternative thinking.
The conference will consider these cultural reflections of the Cold War
era as well as the remnants of the Cold War culture and thinking today.
We encourage papers to consider such topics as popular resistance and
maintaining personal autonomy under repressive political regimes,
responses to political rituals and propaganda, everyday life under the
Cold War, the reinvention of history and building memories of the Cold
War, the reflections of the Cold War thinking and practices in today's
world.
We encourage proposals from young researchers who have already completed
their dissertation research or have defended their dissertation within the
last three years. This will be an intensive 2-1/2 day working conference
that will involve a discussion of each of the selected papers by other
participants including the authors, the keynote speaker, organizers, and a
team of discussants made up of Miami faculty. The final version of
selected papers will be considered for a publication in an edited volume.
The Havighurst Center will provide accommodation in Oxford, ground
transportation from the airport, and partial travel funding (up to $250
for domestic travel and up to $500 for international travel).
To be considered for the conference, submit an abstract of approximately
250 words and a short CV to [log in to unmask] by April 20, 2007.
Please type "2007 Young Researchers Conference" as the subject of the
email. We plan to get back to you by mid-May.
Questions can be directed to:
The Havighurst Center for Russian & Post-Soviet Studies
Miami University
Harrison Hall, Room 116
Oxford, OH 45056
(513) 529-3303
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