International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War

Here at UCSB, this Friday and Saturday, April 4-5, the Center for Cold War Studies and International History is hosting the 2008 annual International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War. You are welcome to attend the academic presentations! The full conference schedule is below.
The annual International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War provides a forum for the presentation and dicsussion of exciting new scholarship on the Cold War era by an international contingent of graduate student presenters and faculty specialists. A graduate student conference on the Cold War has been a UCSB tradition since 1996. This year, we celebrate twelve successful years of helping show-case and guide cutting-edge graduate research on the Cold War. In 2003, the Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) of the University of California at Santa Barbara, the George Washington University Cold War Group (GWCW), first joined their separate spring conferences, and two years later, the Cold War Studies Centre (CWSC) of the London School of Economics and Political Science became a co-sponsor. The annual conference is now sponsored by and rotates among CCWS, the GWCW, and the CWSC. It is an honor for CCWS to once again host the annual International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War here at UCSB.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Friday, April 4, 2008

1:00 – 1:15 pm: Opening Remarks
Salim Yaqub (UCSB)
Hope M. Harrison (George Washington University)
N. Piers Ludlow (London School of Economics and Political Science)

1:15 – 2:45 pm: Cold War Crisis and Response
Chair: John E. Talbott (UCSB)

Peng (Claire) Bai (George Washington University):
“Statesmen, Society, and Post-Conflict Reconciliation during the Cold War in Europe and East Asia”
Commentator: David Wolff (Hokkaido University)

Nathan Bennett Jones (George Washington University):
“Operation RYAN, Able Archer 83, and Miscalculation: The War Scare of 1983”
Commentator: Robert Rauchhaus (UCSB)

Tanvi Madan (UT-Austin):
“From ‘Get Behind a Log’ to the ‘Tilt’: U.S. Policymakers’ Responses to the 1965 and 1971 India-Pakistan Crises”
Commentator: Jason Parker (Texas A&M University)

3:00 – 4:30 pm: Policy Initiatives from the Nixon White House
Chair: Salim Yaqub (UCSB)

John Laprise (Northwestern University):
“Tales of Urgency and Desperation: The Cold War’s Influence on White House ICT Adoption 1968-80”
Commentator: W. Patrick McCray (UCSB)

David Fitzgerald (University College Cork, Ireland):
“A Better War? U.S. Perceptions of Counterinsurgency Warfare in Vietnam, 1968-73”
Commentator: Chester Pach (Ohio University)

Sarah Thelen (American University):
“‘Will You Help our Nation Win the Peace?’ Americans for Winning the Peace and the Nixon Administration, 1969-1971”
Commentator: Hugh Wilford (California State University, Long Beach)

4:45 pm: Keynote Address by Emily Rosenberg (UC Irvine)
“Consumerism and the End of the Cold War”

Saturday, April 5, 2008

8:00 – 9:00 am: Continental Breakfast for conference participants

9:00 – 10:30 am: Labor, Culture, and Religion
Chair: John Sbardellati (UCSB/University of Waterloo, Canada)

Jill Jensen (UCSB):
“Negotiating Labor’s Role in the Postwar World: Labor Diplomacy and the International Labor Organization, 1944-1950”
Commentator: N. Piers Ludlow (London School of Economics & Political Science)

Christopher Wiley (Georgetown University):
“Ausländerstudium und Legitimität: The Politics of Educating Foreigners in the GDR, 1949-1961”
Commentator: Hope M. Harrison (George Washington University)

Kristen A. Shedd (UCSB):
“Cleaning the Unitarian House of ‘Reds’: The Post World War II Purging of Editor Stephen H. Fritchman”
Commentator: Andrew Johns (Brigham Young University)

10:45 am – 12:15 pm: Decolonization and Its Contexts
Chair: Jessica Chapman (UCSB/Williams College)

Jovan Cavoski (London School of Economics and Political Science/Peking University):
“Arming Nonalignment: Yugoslav Arms Shipments to Burma and the Cold War in Asia (New Evidence from Yugoslav, Chinese, and Indian Archives)”
Commentator: Gregory Domber (Stanford University)

Toby Glyn, (London School of Economics and Political Science/University of London):
“The Impact of the Franco-Algerian War on Anglo-French Relations between 1958-1959”
Commentator: John E. Talbott (UCSB)

Ryan Irwin (Ohio State University):
“In the Halls of Justice: South West Africa and the Politics of Post-Colonialism, 1960-1966”
Commentator: Leo Lovelace (California State University, Long Beach)

12:15 – 1:15 pm: LUNCH for conference participants

1:15 – 2:00 pm: Faculty Roundtable:
“Turning Your Paper into a Journal Article”
Hope M. Harrison, Andrew Johns, Chester Pach, Jason Parker

2:15 – 3:45 pm: The Kremlin’s Cold War
Chair: Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (UCSB)

Dimitri Akulov (UCSB):
“Soviet Foreign Policy and Politics of the Grand Alliance, 1941-1943: A Missed Chance to Avoid the Cold War?”
Commentator: Hope M. Harrison (George Washington University)

Oscar Sanchez (University of Chicago):
“The Useful Soviet Union”
Commentator: Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (UCSB)

Kyung Deok (Ken) Roh (University of Chicago):
“Headquarters for the Old, Foreign, and Jewish: Rethinking the Varga Controversy and the End of the Institute of World Economy and World Politics, 1941-1953”
Commentator: David Wolff (Hokkaido University)

4:00 – 5:30pm: The Middle East
Chair: Nancy Gallagher (UCSB)

Archer A. Montague (North Carolina State University):
“The United States, Saudi Arabia, and the Outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War: A Reappraisal”
Commentator: Salim Yaqub (UCSB)

Raabia Shafi (George Washington University):
“‘Like water dissolving in sand’: The Role of Islam in the Context of Soviet and American Foreign Policy towards Afghanistan, 1979-1989”
Commentator: Juan E. Campo (UCSB)

Victor McFarland (Yale University):
“‘This Little Crisis’: The Kennedy Administration and the Yemeni Civil War, 1962-1963”
Commentator: Salim Yaqub (UCSB)

5:45 – 6:00pm: Concluding Remarks
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (UCSB)