Cold War Geographies: an Interdisciplinary Symposium
This symposium will examine Geographies of the Cold War, focussing upon
a series of landscapes and spaces, through 40-minute papers followed by
responses and discussion:
Introduction: Richard Phillips (Geography, Sheffield) and Holger Nehring
(History, Stirling).
(1) 'Cold War Homes', Susan Reid (Professor of Russian Visual Culture,
Sheffield); discussant: Peter Jackson (Geography, Sheffield).
(2) ‘Landmarks and Refuges: Elizabeth Bowen and Anna Kavan’, Adam
Piette (Professor of English, Sheffield); discussant: Erica Sheen
(English Literature, York)
(3) ‘Swarming’, Fabienne Collignon (Lecturer in English, Sheffield);
discussant: Jessica Dubow (Geography, Sheffield).
(4) ‘Academic Geography, Area Studies and the Cold War,’ Trevor Barnes
(Professor of Geography, University of British Columbia); discussant: SY
(Seung-young) Kim (East Asian Studies, Sheffield)
The Speakers
Trevor Barnes, Professor of Geography at the University of British
Columbia, is currently working on the history of academic Geography in
the Cold War. His publications range from The Capitalist Space Economy:
Geographical Analysis After Ricardo, Marx and Sraffa (1990) through a
series of works on textual spaces and spatial metaphors, including
Writing Worlds: Texts, Discourses and Metaphors in the Interpretation of
Landscape (1992), followed by more grounded economic and cultural
geographies of forestry in Canada.
Adam Piette’s research examines Cold War cultures through writers
including Graham Greene, Storm Jameson, Saul Bellow, Allen Ginsberg,
Vladimir Nabokov, John Dos Passos, Josephine Herbst, Grace Paley,
William Burroughs, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. His publications include
The Literary Cold War, 1945 to Vietnam (2009) and the co-edited
Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War
Literature (2012).
Susan Reid’s research focuses on the Soviet Union of the 1950s and
1960s, and has two main themes: the history of Soviet everyday culture,
material culture, design and consumption; the history of Soviet art.
These themes are united by an interest in mid-century Soviet modernity
and modernism, and in gender issues in the context of the Cold War, as
well as in the relation between state, art and design specialists, and
audience and popular taste.
Fabienne Collignon lectures in English at Sheffield University. Her
research focuses on American techno-culture and has examined he material
manifestations, radioactive substance and cultural implications of the
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and of its support mechanisms
in particular US States. Her interests range from Stephen King to Norman
Mailer, and from Batman to Ronald Reagan.
Date and Time: Monday 10 March 2014, 1-6pm
Venue: Dept of Geography, University of Sheffield, UK
This event is free and open to all, but pre-registration required.
To register, contact Richard Phillips ([log in to unmask] )
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