>From Dr Michael Kandiah, Centre for Contemporary British History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London:
Britain and the Cold War CCBH Summer Conference 2009 22-25 June Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, University of London Programme: Monday 22 June 9.30-10 Registration 10-11 Plenary Professor Kathleen Burk (UCL): Reflections on Anglo-American relations during the cold war Chair: Professor Pat Thane (CCBH) 11-11.20 Coffee 11.20-12.40 Plenary Dr Dianne Kirby (University of Ulster): Britain and the religious cold war Chair: Dr Michael Kandiah (CCBH) 11.20-12.40 Panel Dr Rogelia Pastor-Castro (University of Strathclyde): Britain, France and the cold war 1945-55 - co-operation and discord Dr Juhana Aunesluoma (University of Helsinki): Strained from the beginning to the end - Anglo-Finnish relations in the cold war Dr Paul Corthorn (The Queen's University, Belfast): The contested legacy of the Spanish civil war and the cold war in 1980s Britain Chair: Dr Effie Pedaliu (University of the West of England) 12.40-1.30 Lunch 1.30-3 Panel Jodi Burkett (Leeds Metropolitan University): 'A pawn in sordid cold war politics.': The National Union of Students and the international student movement, 1958-1968 Mihaela Sitariu (University of Western Ontario): Supporting a Communist dictator? The significance and implications of Ceausescu's 1978 state visit to Britain Michael Mahadeo (University of Ulster): Anglo-American-Guyanese relations & the cold war Chair: Professor John Young (University of Nottingham) 3-3.15 Tea 3.15-4 Plenary Professor Tony Shaw (University of Hertfordshire): Cinema and the cold war: An International Overview Chair: TBA 4-5 Panel HM Embassy in Washington: cold war hub Dr Michael F. Hopkins (University of Liverpool): The Embassy 1945-65 Professor John Young (University of Nottingham): The Embassy 1965-77 Chair: TBA 6-7pm Special History & Policy Session Lord Hurd (Douglas Hurd) in conversation with Professor David Reynolds on The Formulation of British Policy during the end of the Cold War. Places for this session are limited. Please indicate on the booking form if you wish to attend and we will allocate seats on a first-come first-served basis. Tuesday 23 June 9.30-10 Registration 10-11 Plenary Dr Gill Bennett (Cabinet Office): The legacy of 1945: How the end of World War II determined British policy in the cold war Chair: Professor Antoine Capet (University of Rouen) 11-11.20 Coffee 11.20-12.50 Panel Professor Antoine Capet (University of Rouen): Revisiting the archaeology of the cold war: 'The foul baboonery of Bolshevism' as fought by Churchill, 1917-41 Dr Antony Best (LSE): 'We are virtually at war with Russia': Britain and the Soviet menace in East Asia, 1923-38 Chair: Professor Saki Dockrill (KCL) 12.50-1.30 Lunch 1.30-2.30 Plenary Professor Klaus Larres (University of Ulster): Britain and the cold war: a structural analysis Chair: Professor Saki Dockrill (KCL) 2.30-2.50 Tea 2.50-5 Witness Seminar British Bomber Command & the 1962 Cuban missile crisis (organiser: Dr Robin Woolven) Chair: Professor John Simpson (University of Southampton) Participants: Squadron Leader Roger Atkinson; Marshal of Royal Air Force Sir Michael Beetham, GCB, CBE, DFC, AFC, DL; Air Commodore Norman Bonner; Squadron Leader Jock Connelly; Peter Hudson, CB; Air Vice Marshal Mike Robinson; Air Vice Marshal Bobby Robson; Wing Commander Peter West. 6-7.30 The Pimlott Lecture Professor Peter Hennessy (QMUL): 'Inescapable, necessary and lunatic': Whitehall's transition-to-war planning for World War III Followed by a reception. Wednesday 24 June 9.30-10 Registration 10-11 Plenary Professor Robert Bud (The Science Museum): When science was natural: the freezing of the concepts of 'pure' and 'applied' in cold war environments Chair: Professor Richard Roberts (CCBH) 11-11.20 Coffee 11.20-12.50 Panel 1 Dr Lesley Wright (Liverpool John Moores University): The cold war - lies, damn lies and mathematical modelling Dave Wright (BROHP): UK rocket technology and the cold war Chair: TBA Panel 2 Dr Linda Risso (University of Reading): The Information Research Department and the creation of the NATO Information Service, 1949-69 Dr Alban Webb (Open University): Cultured diplomacy: BBC World Service and the cold war Chair: Dr Kate Utting (KCL) 12.50-1.30 Lunch 1.30-2.45 Panel 1 Alexandros-Panagiotis Oikonomou (Imperial): Government scientist and defence during the cold war in Britain, c. 1945-70 Dr Andrea Ellner (KCL): The Royal Navy at the end of the cold war. Chair: TBA Panel 2 Dr John Jenks (Dominican University): Cold war in black and white: British decolonisation, propaganda and media modernisation in Africa Dr Sue Onslow (LSE): Britain and the cold war in Southern Africa Chair: Professor Nina Fishman (Swansea University) 2.45-4.00 Panel Dr Martin Brown (American International University, Richmond): Détente, British foreign policy and public opinion, 1969-75 Dionysius Georgiou (QMUL): 'You can't play football that way': British footballers and managers in the cold war, 1945-63 Dr Arne Hofmann (LSE): Britain, the USA and the tank confrontation at Checkpoint Charlie, 1961 Chair: Professor Antoine Capet (University of Rouen) 4-4.15 Tea 4.15-5 Plenary Professor Anne Deighton (Wolfson College, Oxford): Britain and the cold war: the state of the art Chair: Dr Michael Kandiah (CCBH) Thursday 25 June 9.30-9.45 Registration 9.45-10.45 Plenary Professor Nina Fishman (Swansea University): British trade unions in a cold war climate, 1948-68 Chair: TBA 10.45-11 Coffee 11-12.30 Panel 1 Dr Chet DeFonso (Northern Michigan University): The homosexual establishment and security Dr Matthew Grant (University of Sheffield): The end of the survivable nuclear war: discourses of destruction in 1950s Britain William Booth (Institute for the Study of the Americas), Britain, Mexico and the Cold War Chair: Professor Michael Parsons (University of Pau) Panel 2: Labour and the cold war Professor Ilaria Favretto (Kingston University) Fighting the 'red threat': the Labour Party and Italian politics in the 1950s-1970s Dr Dejan Djokic (Goldsmiths) 'Friends and Principles: Labour, Tory and the Djilas-Tito split' Chair: Professor Saki Dockrill (KCL) 12.30-1.15 Lunch 1.15-2.45 Panel Professor Kevin Ruane (Canterbury Christ Church University): In search of the origins of the Eden-Dulles feud: Britain, America and the cold war in East Asia, 1951-53 Professor Matthew Jones (University of Nottingham): The diplomacy of restraint: Britain and the Laos crisis, 1961-62 Chair: Professor Nina Fishman (Swansea University) 2.45-4.00 Panel Robert Barnes (LSE): The British Commonwealth, the United Nations, and the Korean war Dr Effie Pedaliu (University of the West of England): British Policy towards the Greek colonels, 1967-70 Alexandros Nafpliotis (LSE): British Policy towards the Greek colonels, 1970-74 Chair: Dr Kate Utting (KCL) 4-4.15 Tea 4.15-5 Plenary Professor Saki Dockrill (KCL): 'An influential power' through multilateral co-operation - Britain and the United Nations during the cold war Chair: Dr Michael Kandiah (CCBH) Registration details: http://www.ccbh.ac.uk/news_frame.php?article_id=432 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. 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