Seminar: The Cultural Cold War

We would like to share the seminar  “The Cultural Cold War: The Low Countries in a Global Network.” This seminar aims to shed light on the formation of global cultural and intellectual cultural networks during the Cold War, by zooming in two seemingly minor players: The Netherlands and Belgium. How did artists, intellectuals and institutions in these countries position themselves in the cultural and geopolitical scene? The relations between the Low Countries and Indonesia, the Caribbean, African countries, and Western and Eastern Europe, will be discussed.

This seminar, organised by Frank Keizer and Laurens Ham, is based on the NWO Open Competition XS project The Secret Life of Writers: Dutch Intelligence Agencies and the Literary World during the Cold War. This project revolves around the question whether security and intelligence services had a big influence in the Netherlands during the Cold War.

The BVD monitored Jan Wolkers (1963) (Source: L.H. Hofland/Collection Het Utrechts Archief) and Simon Carmiggelt (1973) (Source: Rob Mieremet/Anefo), among others, for many years.

Moreover, we are happy to announce that one of the CWRN’s coordinators, Dr. Giles Scott-Smith, and member Dr. Eleni Braat will participate in the symposium.

Registration is possible via:  l.j.ham@uu.nl

For more information, please visit: https://www.uu.nl/en/events/seminar-the-cultural-cold-war

We hope to see you all there!