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Iron Curtain Polyphonies: European Cold War History in the Global Memory Matrix
May 7, 2008 @ 12:00 am
UCSB’s Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS), in conjunction with the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, encourages you to attend its last lecture of the 2007-2008 academic year.
Dr. Berthold Molden of Vienna, Austria will speak on Cold War history and identity politics in Europe, through a global perspective on cosmopolitan memory.
Dr. Molden is a contemporary historian with a strong affinity to Global History. His main research interests are the construction of memory and the politics of history, as well as the history of the Cold War, particularly in Latin America, Europe and the USA. The function of subcultures in critical (e.g. post conflict) periods constitutes a subject of particular investigative passion. His 2007 book on the politics of history and democratization in post-war Guatemala, entitled Geschichtspolitik und Demokratisierung in Guatemala. Historiographie, Nachkriegsjustiz und Entschädigung 1996-2005, was awarded the Michael Mitteraurer Prize for Social, Cultural and Economic History.
Dr. Molden was a researcher for the Austrian Historical Commission. Later he held the DOC-grant of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, was a Junior Visiting Fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna) and served as a visiting fellow at the Asociación para el Avance de las Ciencias Sociales (Guatemala). Currently, he directs an international research project about European memories of the Cold War, based at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres (Vienna). He teaches at the University of Vienna where he belongs to the Global History working group. During his stay as a Visiting Scholar at UCSB’s Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies he is working on his research project “Towards a Global History of the Politics of History.”
For more information please contact: Roger Eardley-Pryor, Administrative Assistant, Center for Cold War Studies & International History.
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