Past Events
19 Jun 2024 16:00 - 19:00
NEW DATE AND LOCATION – Student Event: Screening of ‘Bridge of Spies’
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 ...
24 May 2024 15:15 - 17:00
Book Launch: Between Neutrality and Solidarity: Swiss Good Offices in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992
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 ...
23 Apr 2024 13:15 - 17:00
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 ...
28 Mar 2024 15:15 - 17:00
“Cold War and Human Rights” by Dr. Umberto Tulli
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 ...
7 Mar 2024 16:00 - 18:00
Book Launch: Nicaragua Must Survive. Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War
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 ...
22 Feb 2024 15:00 - 17:00
Special Event: Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955-1968
The CWRN is excited to announce that it will co-sponsor, together with the INVISIHIST, the book launch of Dr. Alessandro Iandolo’s book ...
23 Nov 2023 16:30 - 18:30
Book Launch: Poland and European East-West Cooperation in the 1970s: The Opening Up
This November the CWRN is excited to announce its first co-sponsoring, in person event for the new academic year. In collaboration with the ...
6 Oct 2023 16:30 - 17:30
Book Launch: Telling America’s Story to the World: Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy
The Cold War Research Network is proud to co-sponsor, together with the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS), the book launch of Dr. ...
2 May 2023 16:00 - 19:00
Student Event: Film Screening – The Death of Stalin (2017)
The Cold War Research Network is excited to announce a student-orientated film screening event with 2023 marking 70 years since the death of Soviet leader, ...
19 Apr 2023 17:00 - 20:00
Book Launch: The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945–1966
The Cold War Research Network is proud to co-sponsor the book launch of Dr. Frank Gerits, titled The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of ...
6 Apr 2023 16:00 - 18:00
Book Launch: Politics of Uncertainty: The United States, the Baltic Question, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union
This April the Cold War Research Network is delighted to invite you to the presentation of Una Bergmane’s new book Politics of Uncertainty: The ...
8 Dec 2022 16:00 - 18:00
Book Launch: Freedom on the Offensive by William Michael Schmidli
This December the Cold War Research Network is delighted to invite you to the presentation of William Michael Schmidli’s new book Freedom on the Offensive: ...
17 Nov 2022 16:00 - 17:30
Sweden and the International anti-dictatorial Movement during the years of the Greek Junta (1967 – 1974)
The Cold War Research Network is delighted to invite you to the (on-line) talk by Matthaios Amanatiadis (Uppsala University) on “Sweden and the ...
2 Oct 2022
Call for Papers & International Conference: “Beyond Moscow.”
Dear Members, We come with another exciting call for papers and an International Conference for those interested in Soviet Cold War History. The University ...
16 Sep 2022
The Wireless World 1945-1975: connecting radio histories of Decolonization and the Cold War
We would like to bring to your attention an upcoming event held by the University of Amsterdam and supported by the Cold War Research Network. The event is ...
14 Sep 2022
The Cold War, then–and now? A conversation with Vojtech Mastny
On 14 September 2022 CWRN coordinator Ruud van Dijk organizes an event on the legacy of the Cold War in a conversation with prominent Cold War historian ...
9 Sep 2022
“Gorbachev’s contested legacy: the 1990s and beyond” – A special session with Prof. Vojtech Mastny
On 9 September 2022, Lorena De Vita (Utrecht University) organises a special session with Prof. Vojtech Mastny on Mikhail Gorbachev, with the support of ...
1 Sep 2022
International Conference: The Contributions of State Socialist Countries of Central Eastern Europe to the Development of International Law after 1945
We have another upcoming international conference to share with you, which will take place somewhere this September. The event will be hosted by the ...
29 Aug 2022
European Summer Symposium on the Cold War
We would like to share an exciting and upcoming Summer Symposium (in person) titled: Towards a New World Order European Security, multilateral diplomacy ...
16 Jun 2022 16:00 - 17:30
India and the Afro-Asian space as part of the Cold War history of the Global South
On Thursday the 16th of June, Swapna Kona Nayudu and Lily Patcharaviral will be our guests for June’s panel. They will be discussing their projects ...
13 Jun 2022 16:00
The Transatlantic Era: a discussion of the new book edited by Bram Boxhoorn and Giles Scott-Smith
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 ...
2 Jun 2022 11:00 - 17:00
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.
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 ...
12 May 2022 16:00 - 17:30
Promoting Southern Europe to the World: The Case of Olympic Airways (1957-2009)
On Thursday the 12th of May, Dr Eirini Karamouzi will be our guest for May’s panel. She will be discussing her project on Promoting Southern Europe ...
28 Apr 2022
‘Book Diplomacy’ in the Cultural Cold War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Dear members, we have an exciting event coming over the course of the next few months from one of our members, Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam. Please find the ...
7 Apr 2022 16:00 - 17:30
Neutrality, Capitalism and the global Cold War in Southeast Asia
Due to a technical issue, the link has been updated. You can still join even if the panel has already started. You are very welcome! And sorry for this ...
3 Mar 2022 16:00 - 17:30
Between Neutrality and Solidarity: Swiss Good Offices in Afghanistan 1979-1992
Coming Thursday, March 3rd, Dr. Liliane Stadler will be our guest for this month’s panel. She will be sharing her latest book: Between Neutrality and ...
27 Jan 2022 16:00 - 17:30
Apartheid’s Black Soldiers: Un-national Wars and Militaries in Southern Africa
On Thursday, January 27th, Dr. Lennart Bolliger will present for us during our monthly online panel. He will be presenting and discussing his first ...
15 Dec 2021
Deadline for submissions: ‘Book Diplomacy’ in the Cultural Cold War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
This is a friendly reminder for those interested in the ‘Book Diplomacy’ event to submit an abstract of no more than 300 words to Esmaeil ...
9 Dec 2021 16:00 - 17:30
Saigon’s ‘Year of Sand’ Revisited: The 1968 Tet Offensive and Rise and Fall of Anti-Communist South Vietnam
On Thursday, December 9th, Dr Sean Fear will be joining us during our monthly online panel. He will be presenting and discussing his latest research on ...
10 Nov 2021
Call for New Cold War History Bibliography Entries
is inviting all those interested to contribute to their Bibliography of New Cold War History. Below follows their message and more information:
4 Nov 2021 16:00 - 17:30
Japanese Mediation & Global Socialist Movements
On Thursday, November 4th, 16.00-17.30 CET (GMT+1) Giulia Garbagni and Andrea Torrealba – the winners from our Summer School event ! – will ...
28 Oct 2021
Conference Program Announced – Cold War (a)symmetries: Conflict, Cooperation and Trade
Event open to all! Register via this link COLD WAR (A)SYMMETRIES: CONFLICT, COOPERATION AND TRADE International Online Conference University ...
11 Oct 2021 17:00 - 18:15
Invitation: A Tumultuous Asian Decade – 11 October 2021
One of our coordinators, Giles Scott-Smith, would like to extend a warm invitation to all our members for an upcoming event! On Monday 11 October, 17.00, ...
7 Oct 2021 16:00 - 17:30
Hawks or Doves? Reconsidering American Soviet Policy
On Thursday, October 7th, Grant Golub and Conor Tobin will be talking about their researches for this month’s panel! Grant’s research – ...
20 Sep 2021
Call for Papers: “COLD WAR (A)SYMMETRIES: Conflict, Cooperation and Trade”
The Conference Do not miss the International Conference on the COLD WAR (A)SYMMETRIES: Conflict, Cooperation and Trade organized by the University Valahia ...
1 Sep 2021
European Summer School on the (Global) Cold War 1-3 September 2021
The partner institutions of the European Summer School on Cold War History and the Cold War Research Network in the Netherlands are pleased to announce ...
17 Jun 2021 16:00 - 17:30
Bill and Boris, the personal diplomacy between Clinton and Yeltsin
On 17th of June 2021, Stephan Kieninger will look into the relevance of the personal diplomacy between Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin based on newly ...
20 May 2021 16:00 - 17:30
Britain and the US in Greece
Dr Simeon Paravantes will be presenting his book “Britain and the United States in Greece” in an interesting online lecture on May 20. The book ...
22 Apr 2021 16:00 - 17:30
Ronald Reagan, the Christian Right in Congress, and Romania in the 1980s
We are proud to host Dr Sielke Kelner on the 22nd of April. She will be presenting her paper “Bibles into Toilet Rolls: Ronald Reagan, the Christian ...
18 Mar 2021 16:00 - 17:30
The Nicaraguan Revolution and the Cold War: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in Western Europe, 1977-1990
We are proud to announce that on the 18th of March, the Cold War Research Network will be hosting Dr Eline van Ommen’s lecture on The Nicaraguan ...
11 Feb 2021 16:00 - 17:30
Reagan, Congress and Human Rights: Contesting Morality in US Foreign Policy
We are most delighted to announce our next event. On Thursday 11th of February, Dr Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard will give a lecture in which he presents the ...
14 Jan 2021 16:00 - 17:30
Double Agents in the Cold War
On January 14, Dr. Eleni Braat and Dr. Ben de Jong will be telling us about their exciting work on double agents during the Cold War. Their research ...
17 Dec 2020 16:00 - 17:30
Smoke on the Water: At-Sea Incineration, Environmental Concerns, and the Limits to US Cold War Hegemony
During his lecture on December 17, Dario Fazzi will shed a light on the rise and fall of ocean incineration and the limits of US Cold War hegemony. This ...
20 Nov 2020 10:00 - 12:15
Symposium: “Thirty Years after the End of the Cold War: Ideas for a New Europe”
Laurien Crump is organizing a ca. two-hour online symposium for graduate students and interested colleagues from Utrecht and beyond on Friday November 20, ...
12 Nov 2020 16:00 - 17:30
Roundtable: Curious Connections: Small States, Pericentrism and the Global Cold War
On November 12, three members of the Cold War Research Network, Laurien Crump, Lorena De Vita, and Paschalis Pechlivanis will host a joint digital round ...
22 Oct 2020 16:00 - 17:30
An irrelevant relationship? The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and Yugoslavia, c.1960–91
On 22 October, Matthew Broad will discuss the unique position Yugoslavia occupied during the Cold War in the first digital lecture of the Cold War Research ...
6 Feb 2020
Discussion: “Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual”
This talk chaired by Professor Daniel Bessner in Amsterdam explored how and why a generation of academics left the university to become “defense ...
9 Nov 2019
Conference: “Thirty Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall – The Cold War and its Repercussions Today”
On the 9th November of 2019, members of the Cold War Research Network gathered at the Utrecht University to hold a conference in celebration of thirty ...
12 Jun 2019
Presentation: “Cold Wars: Asia, the Middle East, Europe”
In his presentation, Historian Lorenz Lüthi discussed how Asian and Arab states formulated alternative visions to the Cold War in the form of Asian-African ...
24 May 2019
Symposium: “Sizing Up the Cold War: History and the Legacies Thirthy Years Later”
This symposium, held in Amsterdam, connected to the start of work on a new encyclopedia, aimed to take stock on thirty years of Cold War research.
8 May 2019
Lecture: “Transnational Protest of the National Security State: Whistleblowing, Secrecy, and Networks of Dissent”
During this meeting, Professor Kaeten Mistry explored the long, under-examined history of national security whistleblowing.
11 Dec 2018
Research Proposal: “Facing a Local Conflict while Aiming for Global Peace: International Diplomats in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, 1948-2020”
During this meeting, Dr. Lorena De Vita talked about her research proposal on the presence and involvement of international diplomats in the Israel and ...
11 Oct 2018
Lecture: “Ten Texan missionaries in Rome. Micro-history, religion and the Global Cold War”
During this meeting, Professor Mario Del Pero talked about the complex relationship between Italy and the United States and discussed the influence of ...
13 Apr 2018
Book Presentation: “Fout in the koude oorlog: Nederland in tweestrijd, 1945-1989”
During one of the first meetings of the Cold War Research Network, award-winning historian Dr. Martin Bossenbroek talked about his book Fout in de Koude ...