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CURRENT NEWS
New Publication: The Cold War After Stalin's Death
The Center for Cold War Studies is pleased to announce that CCWS has added another book to its long list of publications:
Klaus Larres and Kenneth Osgood, The Cold War after Stalin's Death: A Missed Opportunity for Peace? (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Plymouth, UK:Rowman & Littlefield, 2006).
This book resulted from a workshop organized by Ken Osgood, supported by IHC and Dean Marshall, in 2001. The book is a part of the Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series, and it includes articles by Ken Osgood, Kathryn Statler, and Toshi Hasegawa.
CCWS Alumni Featured in New Book on the Eisenhower Administration
The Center for Cold War Studies is proud to announce the publication of the book Kathryn C. Statler and Andrew L Johns, eds., The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series, 2006). Contributors include Andrew L. Johns, Chester J. Pach, Jr., Michael R. Adamson, Kenneth A. Osgood, Jason C. Parker, Kathryn C. Statler, James F. Siekmeier, Robert McMahon, James H. Meriwether, Yi Sun, Peter L. Hahn, Nathan J. Citino, and David L. Anderson.Kathryn Statler, Andy Johns, Michael Adamson, and Kenneth Osgood are alumni of CCWS.
CCWS Co-Director Tsuyoshi Hasegawa Wins Yomiuri Yoshino Sakuzo Book Prize for Pathfinding Study of the End of WWII in the Pacific
Second Major Prize for Hasegawa's Volume of the Role of the Atom Bomb in the Japanese Surrender at the end of WWII
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Professor of History and Co-Director of CCWS, received in Tokyo the 2006 Yomiuri Yoshino Sakuzo Book Prize, sponsored by the Daily Yomiuri newspaper, for the Japanese-language version of Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan (Harvard University Press, 2005). The annaul prize recognizes the best book published in Japan in the past year in the fields of politics, economics, and history.
Previously, Hasegawa received the 2006 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize,
awarded by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
(SHAFR), designed to reward distinguished scholarship in the history of
American foreign relations, broadly defined. It recognizes any book
beyond the first monograph by the author.
Richard Rhodes in The New York Times Book Review hailed Racing the Enemy as "Hasegawa's brilliant and definitive study of American, Soviet and Japanese records of the last weeks of the war," adding that "the long debate among historians about American motives and Japanese efforts at ending World War II is finally resolved in ''Racing the Enemy." Other scholarly reviews of Racing the Enemy include an extensive roundtable discussion on the H-Diplo Discussion Network, with reviews by noted historians such as Gar Alperovitz, David Holloway, and Barton J. Bernstein.
For further details please consult the official UCSB Press Release
PAST NEWS AND EVENTS
TIP- For an easy-to-read overview of major CCWS news and events, look at our 2005-2006 Annual Report.
Spring Quarter 2006 Public Events
CCWS is pleased to present the following free public events this quarter (April-June 2006):
Lyndon Johnson’s Living-Room War:
The Johnson Administration, TV News, and Vietnam
Thursday, May 18 / 7 pm / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB (Humanities and Social Sciences Building)*
Chester Pach (Associate Professor, Ohio University) speaks on the role played by the US news media in the Vietnam War, the subject of his forthcoming book The First Television War: TV News, the White House, and Vietnam. A specialist on the relationship between television news and presidential policymaking, his books include Arming the Free World: The Origins of the United States Military Assistance Program, 1945-1950 (1991). He was a Fulbright professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand and winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Article Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR).
Sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies at UC Santa Barbara (CCWS), the UCSB Center for Film, Television, and New Media (CFTNM), Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC), UCSB Global and International Studies Program, Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life at UC Santa Barbara, and the UCSB History Department Colloquium Committee.
*For directions to HSSB (the Humanities and Social Sciences Building) and parking information, please visit http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/info/directions.html.
"Films of the Cold War" SERIES
The Quiet American (1958)
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Starring Audie Murphy and Michael Redgrave
Wednesday, May 24 / 7 pm / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB (Humanities and Social Sciences Building)*
"…Redgrave is outstanding, Robert Krasker's monochrome cinematography is a
thing of wonder, and Mankiewicz's direction is superb…"
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian (London)
Please join us as we screen the first film adaptation of Graham Greene’s classic 1956 novel The Quiet American, featuring a scholarly introduction by Jessica Chapman of the History Department. Come for the film, stay for the Q&A (open question and answer period) afterwards as we compare this version with the 2002 remake and, of course, with the book itself.
Sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies at UC Santa Barbara (CCWS), the UCSB Film Studies Department, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC).
*For directions to HSSB (the Humanities and Social Sciences Building) and parking information, please visit http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/info/directions.html.
Winter Quarter 2006 Public Events
CCWS is pleased to present the following free public events this quarter (January 2005-March 2006):
Cold War in Asia Conference Series, part II
22-23 March 2006 at UC Santa Barbara
Professors Toshi Hasegawa and Salim Yaqub, CCWS co-directors, are proud to announce the second installment of the UC Santa Barbara Cold War in Asia Conference 1956-1973 ...
Conference: The Global Cold War (the 2006 LSE-GWU-UCSB Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War)
Conference Program (PDF) now available.
6-8 April 2006 in London, UK (at the LSE and the National Archives in Kew outside London)
The latest in a long tradition of CCWS sponsored and co-sponsored graduate student conferences on Cold War-related research. (Also visit our conferences page for details on past events).
Announcing a new prize for the Best Paper presented at the conference
The London School of Economics’ Cold War Studies Centre, the George Washington Cold War Group of George Washington University, and the Center for Cold War Studies at UC Santa Barbara, are pleased to announce the creation of a new prize, as part of their annual international graduate student conference on the Cold War.
The best paper presented at the event will be published in the journal Cold War History, subject to all revisions required by the editors. The conference discussants will provide a first selection, and the final decision will be taken by the directors of the host institutions.
For more information about the conference and the deadline for the call for papers, please visit the Conference Web site.
Please visit the Conference Site for further details
Dr. Salim Yaqub named as new co-director for CCWS
CCWS is pleased to welcome Salim Yaqub (PhD- Yale University, 1999) as its new co-director and as associate professor of history at UC Santa Barbara. Dr. Yaqub joins CCWS from the University of Chicago where he was assistant professor of history since 1999. He is the author of the highly acclaimed book on US policy toward the Middle East, Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East (University of North Carolina Press, 2004) and he was a faculty participant in the 2004 "Contemporary Conflicts in light of the Cold War" teaching workshop sponsored by CCWS.
Fall Quarter 2005 Public Events
CCWS is pleased to present the following free public events this quarter (September-December 2005):
Book Lecture/Launch Event
Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan
Featuring Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, author and CCWS co-director
Wednesday, November 2 / 4 pm / McCune Conference Room, Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HSSB) 6th floor (directions)
“…a tour de force -a lucid, balanced, multi-archival, myth-shattering analysis
of the turbulent end of World War II”
-John W. Dower, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
How important was the atomic bomb in the Japanese decision to surrender
at the end of WWII? Come learn how CCWS co-director Hasegawa has
rewritten the standard account of the end of the Pacific War in this
controversial new work. Based upon meticulous, multi-lingual archival
work, this international history integrates fully the roles of the US,
the Soviet Union, and Japan in the war's end.
Book copies available for purchase at the lecture.
“Films of the Cold War” Series
One, Two, Three (1961, Billy Wilder)
Featuring a scholarly introduction by Charles Wolfe, Professor of Film Studies and Associate Dean, Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, and post-screening discussion.
Thursday, November 17 / 7 pm / McCune Conference Room, Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HSSB) 6th floor (directions)
Find out what happens when ambitious Coca-Cola executive C.R. MacNamara (James Cagney), stationed in West Berlin but seeking a promotion to London, finds out that the visiting boss's daughter, Scarlett, has married a communist from East Berlin. How will MacNamara resolve this crisis (and others that arise) before the arrival of Scarlett's parents in Berlin? The result is a fastpaced, sharp-witted Cold War comedy that skewers East and West with equal aplomb.
Past Events
Explore CCWS's diverse array of past events, including conferences, lectures, and films.
- Academic Year 2004-2005 Events
- Academic Year 2003-2004 Events
- Academic Year 2002-2003 Events
Directions to CCWS Events
McCune Conference Room
Map of UCSB highlighting the McCune Conference Room (opens in a new window)
Parking Information (from the TPS website; on weekdays, $2-$8 before 5 pm depending on time, flat $2 after 5 pm on weekdays and on weekends).
Contents above last updated 2006/08/11