The CWRN is thrilled to announce that it will host a seminar given by Dr. Debby Esmeé de Vlugt titled ”European Solidarity with the Black Panther Party: Transatlantic Activism, Interracial Solidarity, and Anti-Imperialism in the Cold War”.    Save the Date! November 7, 2024. 16.00 – 18.00 Drift 25, Room 301 (Utrecht University) or join…

The CWRN is thrilled to announce that along with the Contesting Governance Platform of Utrecht University, it is co-sponsoring the hybrid launch event of Dr. Liliane Stadler’s first book, Between Neutrality and Solidarity: Swiss Good Offices in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992.  This book is published in the Brill Series New Perspectives on the Cold…

Who said that Cold War history and entertainment cannot be combined? The Cold War Research Network is excited to merge these elements by hosting a student-oriented screening of the critically acclaimed film 𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙥𝙞𝙚𝙨. We warmly invite you to join us! Set during the Cold War in 1960, 𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙥𝙞𝙚𝙨 is a 2015…

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…

The CWRN is excited to announce our upcoming event on March 28th, where Dr. Umberto Tulli will delve into a talk on the “Cold War and Human Rights”. This talk will explore how human rights and bipolar rivalry intertwined in unexpected ways during the Cold War. It was a period marked by a series of…

The CWRN is proud to announce that it will co-sponsor, together with  the Center for Latin American Research and Documentation and the Modern History Research Group, the book launch of Dr Eline van Ommen Nicaragua Must Survive. Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War (University of California Press, December 2023).     Dr van…

  The CWRN is excited to announce that it will co-sponsor, together with the INVISIHIST, the book launch of Dr. Alessandro Iandolo’s book titled: Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955 – 1968. (Cornell University Press, 2022). Arrested Development examines the USSR’s involvement in West Africa during the 1950s and 1960s as aid donor, trade…

  This November the CWRN is excited to announce its first co-sponsoring, in person event for the new academic year. In collaboration with the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES) and the Amsterdam School for Regional Transnational & European Studies, our Network would like to invite you to the presentation of Dr. Komornicka’s latest publication,…

  The Cold War Research Network is proud to co-sponsor, together with the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS), the book launch of Dr. Harilaos (Harry) Stecopoulos titled  Telling America’s Story to the World: Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy (Oxford University Press, November 2022).     In his latest publication, Dr. Stecopoulos draws on an extensive archival…

  The Cold War Research Network would like to draw your attention to an upcoming event, scheduled for the following month. On June 2, 2023, from 15h to 17h in the Sweelinck Hall (Drift 21, 005) there will be a symposium on “European Security” where Dr. Crump and other colleagues will highlight her research and…