Exciting announcement! In keeping with the long-standing and thriving tradition of European Summer Schools on the Cold War, Utrecht University is currently planning a small-scale Summer Symposium where PhD candidates, early-career researchers, and senior scholars will converse about European Security, multilateral diplomacy, the (new) Cold War, and its repercussions. This will be a in person…

We would like to bring an upcoming event held by the University of Amsterdam to our members attention. The event is on Friday 16th September 2022 and the location is as follows: Belle van Zuylenzaal, University Library C1.13, Singel 421-427, Amsterdam   Please find the following information below relating to the event: The golden age…

Dear members, We have an interesting upcoming event to share! The Roosevelt Institute for American Studies is organising an event titled ‘War and (Anti-)Americanism in Europe: A Conversation with Alessandro Brogi’. The talk will be held online on Friday 24th June at 16:00. The link for the event is: https://bit.ly/3n7MHyk More information regarding this event…

Losing Earth?  New MA student research on diplomacy and activism on climate change and the environment since 1968 and how it can help us think about the present day. A symposium  Thursday, June 2, 2022, 11-17h, VOC zaal, Bushuis Keynote:    Benjamin W. Goossen   (Harvard University/Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies)   On Not Governing the Planet:   Earth…

Dear members, We have an interesting upcoming event to share! On the 13th of June, there will be a seminar on the The Transatlantic Era: a discussion of the new book edited by Bram Boxhoorn and Giles Scott-Smith (Routledge, 2021). The seminar will be located in the University of Amsterdam. The seminar will be conducted in Dutch,…

Dear members, we have an interesting and exciting opportunity to present for those who are – or know someone who is – working on their history doctoral dissertations. Dr. Margot Tudor (Exeter) and Dr. Molly Pucci (Trinity College Dublin) are calling for unpublished doctoral dissertations in history to be reviewed in Cold War History. Many thanks to Liliane…

We have another upcoming international conference to share with you, which will take place somewhere this September. The event will be hosted by the research project: The Contributions of State Socialist Countries of Central Eastern Europe to the Development of International Law after 1945. Details TBA! The project explores the overlooked role of state socialist…

Dear Members, We come with another exciting call for papers and an International Conference for those interested in Soviet Cold War History. The University of Naples L’Orientale (UniOr), in collaboration with the Higher School of Economics (HSE) Institute for Advanced Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, has organized the international conference Beyond Moscow. Rethinking the international and…

On Thursday, January 27th, Dr. Lennart Bolliger will present for us during our monthly online panel. He will be presenting and discussing his first published book: Apartheid’s Black Soldiers: Un-national Wars and Militaries in Southern Africa. This event is open and free to all. There’s no need to register. Dr. Lennart Bolliger will be presenting for…

One of our coordinators, Giles Scott-Smith, would like to share his latest work! This accessible textbook uses key documents embedded in a clear narrative to chart the post-Cold War rise and decline of transatlantic relations. It provides a novel interpretive framework by proposing that the three decades between 1989 and 2020 represent a distinct ‘transatlantic…