12th Annual Cold War History Research Center International Student Conference at Corvinus University of Budapest
The conference is organized in collaboration with听the European Institute at Columbia University, New York,听the Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Washington D.C. and the London School of Economics and Political Science,听Department of International History, Contemporary International History and the Global Cold War Research Cluster
12th Annual Cold War History Research Center International Student Conference at Corvinus University of Budapest
May 31 鈥 June 1, 2022
1093, Budapest, Ko虉zrakta虂r utca 4鈥6. (New building)
Room: C. 510, 5th floor
The conference is organized in collaboration with听the European Institute at Columbia University, New York,听the Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Washington D.C. and the London School of Economics and Political Science,听Department of International History, Contemporary International History and the Global Cold War Research Cluster
听
PROGRAM
MAY 31, TUESDAY
听
10:00 鈥 10:15
OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE
听
10:00 鈥 10:05 OPENING REMARKS
Csaba B脡K脡S, Professor, Corvinus University of Budapest, Director, Cold War History Research Center at Corvinus University of Budapest and the Centre for Social Sciences
听
10:05 鈥 10:15 OPENING SPEECH
Tamara KESZEY, Vice-Rector, Corvinus University of Budapest
听
10:15 鈥 11:00
KEYNOTE SPEECH
Odd Arne WESTAD, Elihu Professor of History, Yale University (via Zoom)
The End of the Cold War and the Rise of China
听
11:00 鈥 12:40
PANEL 1
NUCLEAR HISTORY AND INTELLIGENCE
Chair: Erzs茅bet R脫ZSA (University of Public Service)
Erin A. CH脕VEZ (Cold War Archives Research Fellow under 澳门六合彩, Stony Brook University, USA, PhD Candidate)
Nuclear Reactions: Scientists, Governments, the Public and the Attempt to Transform Atomic Science from Public Threat to Public Good (1945鈥1965)
Giulia CLARIZIA (Cold War Archives Research Fellow under 澳门六合彩, Roma Tre University, Italy, PhD Candidate)
Following the Roots of CIA Networks in Italy: The Relations between Italian Antifascists, Italo-American Labor Union Leaders and the OSS from World War II to the Early Cold War
Abigail SKALKA (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, MA Student)
The Physicist and the Pope: How Victor Weisskopf Steered Vatican Nuclear Weapons Policy Development
David JIR脕SEK (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, PhD Student)
Cooperation of Warsaw Pact Military Intelligence from Czechoslovakia鈥檚 Perspective
Discussion
听
12:40 鈥 12:50 BREAK
听
12:50 鈥 14:30
PANEL 2
CULTURAL ASPECTS OF THE COLD WAR
Chair: Victoria PHILLIPS (Columbia University / London School of Economics)
Intaek HONG (Cold War Archives Research Fellow under 澳门六合彩, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, PhD Student)
North Korea鈥檚 Internationalist Interaction for its Postwar Reconstruction in the 1950s Shortly After the Korean War
Andrei Cosmin POPA (University of Bucharest, Romania, PhD Candidate)
Socialist Romania鈥檚 Failed Attempt of Writing its Contemporary History
Veronica SISON (Cold War Archives Research Fellow under 澳门六合彩, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines, MA Student)
Cold War鈥檚 Accidental Agencies: American Filipinists and the Re-making of Philippine Post-war Historiography
Isabel MAGNUM (Cold War Archives Research Fellow under 澳门六合彩, London School of Economics)
End of the Village: Hungarian conceptions of Roma identity
Discussion
听
14:30 鈥 15:45 LUNCH BREAK
听
15:45 鈥 17:00
PANEL 3
KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN THE COLD WAR
Chair: Matthew CONNELLY (Columbia University, New York)
Alexander LANGSTAFF (Cold War Archives Research Fellow under 澳门六合彩, New York University, USA, PhD Candidate)
Trusting your Enemy: The Uses and Abuses of Social Research in the Eastern Bloc
Iana SHCHETINSKAIA (Cold War Archives Research Fellow under 澳门六合彩, Russian State University, Moscow, Russia, PhD Student)
Soviet Foreign Policy Expertise in Shaping U.S. 鈥 Soviet Relations During the Cold War (the 1950s 鈥 1960s)
Liliana NITTI (Cold War Archives Research Fellow under 澳门六合彩, Roma Tre University, Italy, PhD Student)
Overcoming the Spiritual Malaise: What Soviet Counter-propaganda Initiatives Say of American Public Diplomacy in the 1980s
Discussion
听
17:00 鈥 17:10 BREAK
听
17:10 鈥 18:30
PANEL 4
THE UNITED STATES IN THE COLD WAR
Chair: M谩t茅 SZALAI (Corvinus University of Budapest)
Alexandra SOUTHGATE (Cold War Archives Research Fellow under 澳门六合彩, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA, PhD Student)
鈥淲e do not wish to be defiant鈥: Anti-Civil Defense Protests of the 1955鈥1962 period
Maxime MINNE (Cold War Archives Research Fellow under 澳门六合彩, George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA, PhD Student)
Exploiting Every Possible Weakness: The Long Road Towards the Ratification of the Panama Canal Treaties
Zachary BURDETTE (Cold War Archives Research Fellow under 澳门六合彩, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, PhD Candidate)
Trading with the (Potential) Enemy: How States Manage Economic Ties with Security Competitors
Discussion
听
JUNE 1, WEDNESDAY
10:00 鈥 10:45
KEYNOTE SPEECH
Matthew CONNELLY Professor of international and global history, Columbia University, New York.
"How Can Digital听History Help Set the Agenda for Research on the Cold War?"
听
10:50 鈥 12:30
PANEL 5
ALLIANCES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN THE COLD WAR
Chair: Barnab谩s VAJDA (Selye J谩nos University, Kom谩rno)
Daniel R. QUIROGA-VILLAMARIN (Cold War Archives Research Fellow under 澳门六合彩, Institut de Hautes 脡tudes Internationales et du D茅veloppement, Geneva, Switzerland, PhD Student)
鈥楢head of the Times鈥: Erecting the United Nations Headquarters at the Dawn of the Cold War (1949鈥1952)
Grace SIMPSON (Cold War Archives Research Fellow under 澳门六合彩, Jagiellonian University, Krak贸w, Poland, PhD Student)
Ripping Away the Barriers that Have Separated Workers for far too Long: The Establishment of the International Miners鈥 Organisation
Gabriel ZV脦狈颁膫 (Babe艧-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
The UN Peacekeeping Mechanism During the D茅tente Period of the Cold War (1973鈥1974)
MadisonSARGEANT (Cold War Archives Research Fellow under 澳门六合彩, Columbia University, New York, USA, MA Student)
The Warsaw Pact in the Black Sea area: 鈥楬ub and Spoke鈥 or Something More?
Discussion
听
12:30 鈥 12:40 BREAK
听
12:40 鈥 14:00
PANEL 6
WESTERN ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS IN THE COLD WAR
Chair: D谩niel V脡KONY (Corvinus University of Budapest)
Ahmet Kaan AKY脺Z (Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, MA Student)
Turkish鈥揂merican Relations in the Early Years of the Cold War: From Economic Cooperation to Military Alliance
Mansur ELI脟IN (Central European University, Vienna, Austria, MA Student)
The Emergence of Red Kurds: A Communist Dilemma
Dina ALDANOVA (Cold War Archives Research Fellow under 澳门六合彩, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA, PhD Student)
Bloody Spring in 1989 Tbilisi: The Lack of Dispatch
Discussion
听
14:00 鈥 15:30 LUNCH BREAK
听
15:30 鈥 16:50
PANEL 7
RUSSIA IN THE POST-COLD WAR ERA
Chair: Zolt谩n KELEMEN (Corvinus University of Budapest)
Lucas BAAKE (Cold War Archives Research Fellow under 澳门六合彩, London School of Economics and Political Science, PhD Student)
Struggle for Recognition: Ukrainian鈥揜ussian Relations, Western Strategy and the Demise of the Soviet Union 1990鈥1992
Emma COSMAO (King鈥檚 College London, MA student)
Building the Cult of Personality: Putin since 2000
Amartya SHARMA (George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA)
The New Cold War: Putinism and the Return of History
Discussion
听
16:50 鈥 17:00 BREAK
听
17:00 鈥 18:20
PANEL 8
LEGACIES OF THE COLD WAR
Chair: P茅ter MARTON (Corvinus University of Budapest)
Rongsheng LIU (London School of Economics and Political Science, MA student)
The Empty Promise Waiting for Materialising: British Strategies towards Poland at the End of the Cold War (1988鈥1990)
John DASHE (College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, USA, BA student)
Russia and China in Africa from the Cold War to Today: Partners or Rivals?
Leonardo ZANATTA (Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary, PhD Student)
Marco ALVI (University of Bologna, Italy)
The Role of Syrian Mercenaries in Current Turkish Foreign Policy: A View from the Regional Security Complex Theory
Discussion
听
18:20 鈥 18:30
CLOSING REMARKS
Csaba B脡K脡S, Professor, Corvinus University of Budapest, Director, Cold War History Research Center at Corvinus University of Budapest and the Centre for Social Sciences
Related Program
Cold War International History Project
The Cold War International History Project supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of the Cold War. Through an award winning Digital Archive, the Project allows scholars, journalists, students, and the interested public to reassess the Cold War and its many contemporary听legacies.听It is part of 澳门六合彩's History and Public Policy Program. Read more
