2012-2013 Calendar of Events
Past Events 2011-2012
Past Events 2010-2011
Past Events 2009-2010
Past Events 2008-2009
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Thursday May 23, 4 pm McCune Conference Room HSSB 6020 Event co-sponsored by the UCSB Department of History |
John Sbardellati, J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies: The FBI and the Origins of Hollywood's Cold War 
CCWS is excited to announce that Prof. John Sbardellati of Waterloo University in Ontario--who received his PhD in history at UCSB in 2006--will be talking about his new book,
J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies: The FBI and the Origins of Hollywood's Cold War. Prof. Sbardellati's groundbreaking book is the first to fully chronicle Hoover's sweeping
investigation into supposed anti-Americanism in the motion picture industry in the 1940s and 50s. The event is free and open to the public. A reception, with delicious refreshments,
will follow Prof. Sbardellati's presentation.
John Sbardellati is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He is the author of J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies: The FBI and the Origins of Hollywood's Cold War, published by Cornell University Press in 2012. His articles have appeared in Pacific Historical Review, Film History, and Cold War History. A native Californian, Dr. Sbardellati received his PhD in history at UCSB in 2006. He is a proud alumnus of UCSB's Center for Cold War Studies and International History. Please join us for this exciting event! |
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Thursday May 9, 7 pm McCune Conference Room HSSB 6020 |
An Evening with Jayne Loader, Director of The Atomic Cafe (1982)
Acclaimed documentary director and writer Jayne Loader will join us in person on Thursday, May 9th at 7pm to talk about her landmark documentary about the dawn of the atomic age The Atomic Cafe (1982). Assembled exclusively from mid-century newsreels and government propaganda sources, her film was one of the first "found footage" documentaries, and it well-remembered for reintroducing Bert the Turtle and the classic classroom atomic war drill cartoon Duck and Cover into American popular culture.
For this event selected clips from The Atomic Cafe will be screened and will be followed by a wide-ranging discussion about the film between Ms. Loader and UCSB Film and Media Studies professor Charles Wolfe, History Department professor and the Center for Cold War Studies director Salim Yaqub, and PhD. candidate and CCWS adminstrative assistant Ken Hough.
In addition to being a renowned documentarian, Ms. Loader is also the creator of the Public Shelter website and CD-Rom, the author of the books Between Pictures (1986) and Wild America (1989), and holds the distinction of being one of the first bloggers. Please join us for this illuminating screening and discussion! |
Wednesday
April 10, 4 pm McCune Conference Room HSSB 6020 Event co-sponsored by the UCSB Department of History |
Frederik Logevall, Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
Join CCWS on Wednesday, April 10th for a fascinating talk by Professor Fredrik Logevall discussing his
highly acclaimed new book, Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam.
Drawing on newly available documents from several nations, and making full use of the vast published literature,
Professor Logevall surveys the broad sweep of the Vietnam War. He begins with the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference,
where a young Ho Chi Minh attempted to petition President Woodrow Wilson for Vietnamese independence,
and ends with a 1959 Viet Cong ambush, resulting in the first U.S. combat deaths of the war.
Throughout the talk, Professor Logevall helps us unravel the mystery of how two great powers,
France and the United States, could have been drawn into such disastrous ventures.
Prof. Logevall is John S. Knight Professor of International Studies in the Department of History at Cornell University. He is the author of numerous books on the Vietnam War and international relations, including Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam (1999), The Origins of the Vietnam War (2001), Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, and, with Campbell Craig, America's Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity (2009). Please join us for this thought-provoking lecture! |
Friday, February 22, 9am - 4pm HSSB 4020 Event co-sponsored by UCSB Department of History |
INAUGURAL CCWS GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM ON THE COLD WAR ALL DAY FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22 
UCSB's Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) is proud to present our
our first ever graduate student symposium on the Cold War. This exciting event showcases the wide range of compelling work connected to the history Cold War now being done by UCSB graduate students.
Join on Friday, February 22 for this day long event.
This graduate student driven event consists of morning and afternnon sessions and a keynote presentation by Dr. Dimitri Akulov, a recently minted PhD from UCSB's History Department. Dr. Akulov's talk is titled: "Managing Allies and Adversaries At the Time of War: Soviet Foreing Policy During the Early Years of World War II." You can download the full program schedule here. Breakfast, lunch and light refreshments will be served. And following the symposium there will be a Cold War Mixer at 5pm in the Storke Family Housing Community Center. We hope to see you there! Please direct any questions to Ken Hough at CCWSsymposium@gmail.com or khough@umail.ucsb.edu |
Friday,
February 15, 12pm - 1:30pm HSSB 4020 Event co-sponsored by CCWS |
Vladislav Zubok, "Saving Russian Patriotism: Dmitry Likhachev and the Struggle of Identity in Soviet Intelligentsia." 
CCWS presents a lecture on February 15 in the HSSB Room 4020 from 12pm to 1:30pm.The life and influennce of Dmitry Likhachev will be the subject of Dr. Zubok's talk: "Russian intelligentsia vanished during the Soviet times, but not quite. It turned out that one of the last Mohicans of this vanishing tribe, Dmitry Likhachev, lived long enough to have an impact on Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet Union." Vladislav M. Zubok is currently a Professor of History at Temple University, Philadelphia and will be the upcoming Chair in International History in the Department of History at the London School of Economics. His numerous publications include Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev with C. Pleshakov (Harvard University Press, 1996), A Failed Empire: the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (University of North Carolina Press, 2007), and Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia (Belknap Press, 2009). He is a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Riccardo-Campbell National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and a fellow at the National Security Archive at the University of George Washington and the Cold War International History Project at the Wilson Center for International Scholars. Please join us for his illuminating discussion! |
UC Santa Barbara, Friday, February 22, 2013 9am-3pm, HSSB 4020 |
2013 Graduate Student Symposium PROPOSALS DUE BY JANUARY 25, 2013. 
UCSB's Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) is happy to announce a call for papers and commentators
for our first ever graduate student symposium, to be held at UCSB on Friday, February 22, 2013. We encourage paper submissions by
UCSB graduate students working on any aspect of the Cold War, broadly defined, and related topics in international history.
CCWS is starting this new symposium series to showcase the new and exciting work being done by UCSB graduate students on Cold War and international history topics. This is a graduate student driven event: while professors and faculty members are encouraged to attend, all participants, including presenters and commentators, will be current and recent graduate students from UC Santa Barbara. This colloquium is designed to give students a semi-formal and friendly forum for presenting their research, and is intended to be a steppingstone for those preparing to attend conferences at the national and international level. As such, UCSB graduate students from across the humanities and social sciences are invited to take part in this inaugural event. Paper proposals (in Word or pdf format), including a 250 word abstract, a curriculum vitae or brief academic biography, contact information, and audiovisual needs, if any, should be submitted Ken Hough at CCWSsymposium@gmail.com Students interested in serving as commentators should submit a curriculum vitae or brief academic biography and contact information to the above email address. TIMELINES: - Abstract and participant form submission deadline: Friday, January 25, 2013 - Notification of acceptance: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 Check back for updated information. Please direct any questions to Ken Hough at CCWSsymposium@gmail.com or khough@umail.ucsb.edu |
Washington D.C., April 25-27, 2013 |
“CALL
FOR PAPERS: 2013 11th Annual International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War ” 
The George Washington University Cold War Group (GWCW), The Center for Cold War Studies (CCWS)
of the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the LSE IDEAS Cold War Studies Programme
of the London School of Economics and Political Science (CWSP) are pleased to announce their
2013 International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, to take place at the
George Washington University on April 25-27, 2013.
To view the CFP details click here. Visit the GW Cold War Group home page for more information. | >
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Tuesday,
October 23, 7pm Unity Church 227 East Arrellaga Street |
Paul Hirsch, “Why Are These Men Smiling? The Cold War in Comics”
CCWS proudly co-sponsors a presentation by our own Paul Hirsch: "Why Are These Men Smiling? The Cold War in Comics." In this talk Mr. Hirsch discusses the ways American policymakers
capitalized on the popularity of the comic book medium to win the hearts and minds of people around the world during the Cold War. This talk
is based on his dissertation
Pulp Empire: Comic, Culture, and U.S. Foreign Policy from 1942-1955, which draws on extensive archival research to uncover the untold
history of comic books, American propaganda campaigns, and the international struggles in the middle part of the twentieth century.Mr. Hirsch is a PhD candidate in the UCSB History department whose area of expertise includes American comic books and foreign policy from 1940s to the 60s. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including an integrative graduate education and research traineeship from the National Science Foundation, a dissertation research award from the Borchard Foundation for European Studies, and a graduate studies award from the Philip and Aida Siff Educational Foundation. He was also the recipient of UCSB's Lawrence Badash Prize in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in 2005. CCWS is pleased to be co-sponsoring this event with the History Associates. So put down that Captain America comic and join us for this exciting event! 'Nuff said. |
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Wednesday,
October 29, 7 pm Loma Pelona Conference Center Badash Lecture Fund Co-sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies |
Michael
D. Gordin, “ The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth
of the Scientific Fringe”
This year's Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture will be delivered by
Michael D. Gordin
and will be held from 7:00-8:30 PM on October 29, 2012 at UCSB's Loma
Pelona Conference Center
(located near Parking Structure 22 on the UCSB campus, close to the
Faculty Club).
Our invited speaker is Princeton University historian Michael D.
Gordin, whose
talk is drawn from his brand new book The Pseudoscience
Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky
and the Birth of the Scientific Fringe.Appropriate for the Halloween week, Prof. Gordin will be discussing the tricky boundaries between science and pseudoscience that emerged after the publication of Velikovsky's controversial 1950 bestseller Worlds in Collision. Prof. Gordin is professor of history at Princeton University, where he teaches the history of modern science. He has written several books on the history of the physical sciences, concentrating on the history of Russia and the United States. His first book, Well-Ordered Thing (2004), was a cultural biography of Dmitrii Mendeleev, formulator of the periodic system of chemical elements. Since then, he has focused on the history of nuclear weapons, with a book on their use in World War II (Five Days in August, 2007) and another on the creation of the Soviet atomic bomb and the early arms race (Red Cloud at Dawn, 2009). His most recent book, The Pseudoscience Wars, is due to appear in late summer 2012 and explores disputes over the boundary between science and pseudoscience in Cold War America. |
| Tuesday, October 30, 2012,
12:00-1:30
pm
HSSB 4080 |
Michael
Gordin, "Red
Cloud At Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly" Professor Gordin will make a brief presentation and then lead a discussion of some of his recent scholarship. Workshop attendees are encouraged to read in advance the introduction to Professor Gordin's book, Red Cloud At Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly (2009) Attendees wishing to read a copy of the introduction should write to Prof. Salim Yaqub at syaqub@history.ucsb.edu. |
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Sunday,
November 11, 3-5:30pm |
Paul Reed Baltimore, “Saudimobility:
U.S.-Saudi Relations in the Golden Age of the Automobile”
CCWS presents a paper workshop with UCSB PhD Candidate Paul Reed Baltimore discussing his work "Saudimobility:
U.S.-Saudi Relations in the Golden Age of the Automobile." This article is drawn from the first three chapters of his dissertation From the Camel to the Cadillac: The Culture of Consumption and the U.S.-Saudi Special Relationship, which explores U.S. relations with Saudi Arabia from 1943 to 1979 at the point where consumption studies and international history converge. In what is sure to be an exciting and thought-provoking discussion, Mr. Baltimore will discuss his latest work "Saudimobility" which tells the story of how, in the 1940s and 1950s, the United States and Saudi Arabia participated in a transnational culture of consumption rooted in the intimate link between petroleum and the automobile. Workshop attendees are encouraged to read Mr. Baltimore's article in advance. Attendees can contact Salim Yaqub for the password to unlock the file and should also send their RSVP to syaqub@history.ucsb.edu. |
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Wednesday,
November 14, 4-5:30pm McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) |
Mark Quigley, “ATOMIC NIGHTMARES: Screening the Bomb via Archival Film and Television Ephemera”
CCWS is proud to present a talk by Mark Quigley, Manager of the Archive Research & Study Center (ARSC) at the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Mr. Quigley will
present a curated selection of obscure celluloid and cathode relics of Cold War representations of "The Bomb." Extensive clips from grim, historic newsreels
and nightmarish, long-forgotten dramatic television specials will be foregrounded as moving image archival research resources and strategies are outlined
in-brief.The UCLA Film & Television Archive holds over 250,000 films and television programs produced from the 1890s to the present. The collection includes independent and studio-produced shorts and feature films, advertising and industrial films, documentaries, local and network TV programming, commercials, news and public affairs broadcasts, and 27 million feet of newsreels produced between 1919 and 1971. Mr. Quigley's talk will be followed by a brief Q & A session. Please join us for this unique and insightful presentation. |