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Center for Cold War Studies

Scenes from the 2004 GWU-UCSB Graduate Student Conference in Washington DC

"RECONSIDERING THE COLD WAR"
A UCSB-GWU GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

MAY 2-3, 2003
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA

A two-day conference and the first year in which this conference was held jointly with the George Washington (University) Cold War Group (GWCW). Conferences now alternate between the two campuses each year.

Friday May 2:

1-1:15 pm: Opening Remarks, Fredrik Logevall, UC Santa Barbara

 

1:15-2:45 pm: New Perspectives on the Early Cold War
Chair: Fredrik Logevall, UC Santa Barbara

i. "The Interregnum Between World War and Cold War: A Reconsideration"
Jennifer See, UC Santa Barbara
Discussant: Robert McMahon, University of Florida

ii. "The Truman Administration's Utilization of Fear Among the American People, 1948-53"
Jessica Barrella, Florida International University
Discussant: James Hershberg, George Washington University

iii. "California's Cold Warrior: Senator William F. Knowland and US-China Policy, 1945-52"
Matthew Flynn, Ohio University
Discussant: Jeff Livingston, CSU Chico

3-4:30 pm: The Cold War in Asia
Chair: Larry Berman, UC Washington Center

i. "The Underwoods's Search for Order in Korea, 1885-1953: A Study of Protestant Christianity and America's Cold War"
Jung Pak, Columbia
Discussant: James Matray, CSU Chico

ii. "Walt Rostow and the Bombing of North Vietnam, 1961-1968"
David Milne, Cambridge University
Discussant: Chester Pach, Ohio University

iii. "Cold War Alliances in the Vietnam War"
Lien-Hang Nguyen, Yale University
Discussant: Kathryn Statler, University of San Diego

4:30-5:30 pm: Faculty Roundtable: "Multilateralism vs. Unilateralism in U.S. Foreign Policy"
Hope Harrison, George Washington University
Robert McMahon, University of Florida
Thomas Schwartz, Vanderbilt University

7pm: BBQ

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Saturday, May 3:

8:30-10am: Sino-Soviet Split and Sino-US Rapprochement
Chair: Thomas Maddux, CSU Northridge

i. "From Khrushchev's Secret Speech to the Moscow Meeting: Sino-Soviet Relations and the Collapse of Socialist Unity, February 1956-November 1957"
Lorenz Luthi, Yale University
Discussant: James Goldgeier, George Washington University

ii. "Standing on the Precipice: The Consequences of the Sino-Soviet Split and the Invasion of Czechoslovakia on Romanian-Soviet Relations, 1967-70"
Mircea Munteanu, George Washington University
Discussant: Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, UC Santa Barbara

iii. "The Taiwan Issue and Kissinger-Zhou Enlai Secret Talks in 1971"
Yafeng Xia, University of Maryland
Discussant: Keith Nelson, UC Irvine

10:15am-12:15pm: New Perspectives on Cold War Culture
Chair: Robert Dean, Eastern Washington University

i. "From 'Mere Entertainment' to Protected Speech: Cold War Ideology, Motion Pictures, and the First Amendment, 1945-1952"
Charles Bethel, UC San Diego
Discussant: Colin Gardner, UC Santa Barbara

ii. "Representations of the Cold War Enemy in Soviet Films of the 1940s-1950s"
Sergei Kapterev, New York University
Discussant: Denise Rompilla, St. John's University

iii. "Victor Gruen, Southdale, and the Construction of Cold War Utopias"
Timothy Mennel, University of Minnesota
Discussant: Christopher Endy, CSU Los Angeles

iv. "The Origins of the FBI's Cold War in Hollywood"
John Sbardellati, UC Santa Barbara
Discussant: Robert Dean, Eastern Washington University

12:15-2pm: Lunch and Keynote Address: "Why We Should Care about Cold War
History: A Personal View" by Marc Trachtenberg, UCLA

2-3pm: The Era of Détente
Chair: Hope Harrison, George Washington University

i. "The Political is Personal: Ideology, Personality and German-American Relations during the Nixon Administration"
Werner Lippert, Vanderbilt University
Discussant: Frank Gavin, LBJ School, University of Texas

ii. "Food Strikes and Détente: Western Reactions to the December 1970 Polish Crisis"
Gregory Domber, George Washington University
Discussant: Thomas Schwartz, Vanderbilt University

3-4:30pm: US Policy and the 'Third World'
Chair: William Walker, Florida International

i. "Be Careful What You Wish For: Post-War Liberals and the Emergence of the American Refugee Policy Regime"
Carl Bon Tempo, University of Virginia
Discussant: Michael Parrish, UC San Diego

ii. "Prelude to a Crisis: The U.S., Cuba, and the Monroe Doctrine in 1962"
Bradley Zakarin, Harvard University
Discussant: William Walker, Florida International University

iii. "The Population Bomb: Paul Ehrlich, Environmentalism, and the Cold War"
Thomas Robertson, University of Wisconsin
Discussant: Kurk Dorsey, University of New Hampshire

4:45-5:45pm: US Policy in the Middle East
Chair: R. Stephen Humphreys, UC Santa Barbara

i. "Forging U.S. Foreign Policy: American Labor and the Establishment of the State of Israel, 1944-1948"
Adam Howard, University of Florida
Discussant: Nelson Lichtenstein, UC Santa Barbara

ii. "Jimmy Carter, the Iranian Revolution, and the Cold War"
Brent Geary, Ohio University
Discussant: Michelle Mart, Penn State University

5:45pm: Closing Remarks, Fredrik Logevall, UC Santa Barbara

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