Past Events & CCWS News
Details about past events presented by CCWS and news items relating to the Center, presented in reverse-chronological order.
Academic Year 2004-2005
• The Cold War and its Contexts
the 2005 UCSB-GWU-LSE Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War
29-30 April 2005- UCSB McCune Conference Room- 6th floor HSSB
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• "Reinterpreting the Cold War in Asia" Conference
30-31 March 2005- UCSB McCune Conference Room- 6th floor HSSB
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• "The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed"
Kenneth Waltz (Columbia University) Scott Sagan (Stanford University)
Thursday, 24 February 2005 at 7:30 pm; Free
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 (on the 6th floor)
In keeping with their co-authored book, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons, these two scholars debated a number of issues relating to nuclear deterrence and non-proliferation. For example, during the Cold War, did the "balance of terror" help maintain the "long peace" between the United States and the Soviet Union? What does nuclear deterrence during the Cold War teach about the contemporary world? Will the spread of nuclear weapons to new states stabilize or destabilize international relations? The debate was subsequently re-broadcast on UCTV (UC Television) and Santa Barbara Education Access Channel 21.
Sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies, Department of Political Science, Graduate Division, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UCSB; The UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC).
• During AY 2004-2005, CCWS welcomed Dr. Hugh Wilford from the University of Sheffield (in the United Kingdom) as the Center's first visiting scholar
Dr. Wilford's research interests focus on "American intellectuals, the 'cultural Cold War', and the British left," and he is currently researching the CIA and the various anti-Communist citizen groups it covertly funded in the early years of the Cold War: labor, intellectuals, students, African American, women, journalists, writers, and artists. He is the author of "The New York Intellectuals: From Vanguard to Institution" (Manchester University Press, 1995) and "The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?" (Frank Cass, London, 2003). .
• December 2:: CCWS "Films of the Cold War" Series featured Charlie Chaplin's little-known film "Monsieur Verdoux," 7 pm at HSSB (Humanities and Social Sciences Building) 1173. An open discussion followed this free public film screening.
• 21 October 2004, 4 and 18 November 2004:: Cold War Salon Series
Informal, small-group workshops held amongst CCWS members to discuss work-in-progress.
» On 21 October 2004, IGCC fellow and UCSB history graduate student Paul Hirsch presented "The H-Bomb and You: Portrayals of the Atomic Bomb in American Comic Books, 1945-1954"
» On 4 November 2004, Dr. Hugh Wilford presented "Calling the Tune? The CIA and American Culture in the early Cold War"
» On 18 November 2004, Prof. Nelson Lichtenstein presented on "Market Triumphalism and the Wishful Liberals"