Don’t miss this chance to watch a powerful film, learn from a leading scholar, and reflect on a war that continues to shape our world. Sign up here! 📍 Date: 21 May, 2025🕕 Time: 16:00-19:00📍 Location: Drift 25, Room 301🎟️ Free entry | Open to all students The Cold War Research Network invites all students to join us for a special screening of Full Metal…

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Sign up here! 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! April 10, 2025. 16.00 – 18.00 Drift 25, Room 102 In the…

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…