Appel à com : "Cold War Cultures"

[Madeleine L.]

COLD WAR CULTURES

Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Conference at the University of Texas at Austin
September 30 - October 3, 2010

Call for Papers
Deadline: April 1, 2010

If war is the continuation of politics by other means, then Cold War
politics can be seen as a continuation of war by other means. This
interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore these means in the
context of global encounters between states and "Blocs" as well as
engagements with "East" and "West." Indeed, after the end of the
Second World War, a new kind of "war" continued and expanded as
governments and/or interest groups created and continually reshaped
institutions, media, popular culture, and various elements of social
and political life. Globally, these broad-based transformations took
place in the shadow of Cold War politics, especially as expressed
through rhetoric of threat and mutual annihilation. In particular,
cultural phenomena shaped by Cold War power conflicts take on myriad
forms in a host of geographic contexts, both in and outside the Bloc,
from iconic public representations to distinctive media advertising,
memorable political speeches, world expositions, spy novels and films,
and a plethora of official and popular modes of expression. In some
places, of course, military or paramilitary conflagrations translated
Cold War politics into "hot" wars, which further fueled the fire of
Cold War imaginations.

We invite proposals for individual 20-minute papers that explore any
geographic area or disciplinary field of Cold War studies, as well as
contributions that might engage the notion the of "Cold War"
theoretically. Full panels of three papers may also be proposed.

Cold War Cultures: Interdisciplinary and Transnational Perspectives is
a three-day conference at the University of Texas at Austin planned as
the culmination of a series of events held in Fall, 2010, on the
campus. These events will include the conference, several keynote
speeches by international and local scholars, and a film series; more
details to come. Because of the generosity of our sponsors, all events
will be free of charge and open to the public.

This site contains all information available about the conference and
all other events surrounding it. It will be updated regularly with the
most current information available.

Cold War Cultures web site: http://www.coldwarcultures.org/

Email the organizing committee: coldwarcultures@gmail.com