Thursday, April 26
Opening (14.00h – 15.30h)
Thomas Lindenberger (Potsdam)
Welcome Address
Lary May (Minneapolis)
Introductory Speech I (Cold War Culture in United States History)
Marsha Siefert (Budapest)
Introductory Speech II (Eastern European Cold War Cultures: Alterities and Reflections)
Panel I: Media (16.00h – 18:30h)
Moderation/Comment:Patrick Major (Warwick)
Paper:Inge Marszolek (Bremen)
Images in the Cold War in Germany (East and West) (1945 – 1965)
Drago Petrescu (Bucarest)
Episodes of Cold War Propaganda Warfare: International Media and the Demise of Communism in East-Central Europe
Joes Segal (Utrecht)
Artistic Style, Canonization and Identity Politics in the Context
of the Cold War
Friday, April 27
Panel II: Borders (8.30h – 10:30h)
Moderation/Comment: Jane Curry (Santa Clara, CA)
Paper:Sabina Mihelj (Loughborough)
Drawing the East-West Border: Mediated Discourses of the Self and the Other in Istr(i)a and the Julian March (1947-1971)
Edward Larkey (Baltimore, MD)
Radio Reform in the Capital of the Cold War: How East and West Berlin Youth Radio Stations (RIAS, DT-64) Responded to Private Radio
Indrek Treufeldt (Tartu)
Constructing Alternative Nationhood for Neighbours. Television of Soviet Estonia against Finnish Capitalism
Panel III: Consumer Culture (11.00h – 13:00h)
Moderation/Comment: Susan Reid (Sheffield)
Paper:Stefanie van de Kerkhof (Hagen/Westf.)
The “Defenders of Security” in the Cold War. Transnational Images of European Weapon Producers
Luminita Gatejel (Berlin)
Driving through the Cold War. Politics and representations of automobiles in the Soviet Union, the GDR and Romania during détente
Stefan Schwarzkopf (London)
Advertising, Emotions and “Hidden Persuaders”. The Making of Cold War Consumer Culture 1940s – 1960s
Panel IV: (14.30h – 16:30h)
Moderation/Comment:Kurt Imhof (Zurich)
Paper:Balazs Apor (Florence)
Communist Leader Cults, National Traditions, and the Cold War
Olga Yurievna Voronina (Harvard)
“And thus we unleashed the Cold War”: A Hidden Message behind Stalin’s Attack on Anna Akhmatova
Marie Cronqvist (Lund)
The Culture of Civil Defense in Cold War Sweden
Valur Ingimundarson (Reykjavik)
War Crimes and Anti-Communist Resistance in World War II: (Re-) Interpreting. Individual Guilt and National Pasts through a (Post-) Cold War Lens
Panel V: Transgressions and Transcendencies (17.00h – 19:30h)
Moderation/Comment: Pavel Kolar (Potsdam)
Paper:Quinn Slobodian (New York)
What does Democracy look like (and why would anyone want to buy it)? Third World Demands and West German Responses at the 1960s World Youth Festival
Roman Krakovsky (Paris)
The Peace and War Camps in Czechoslovakia during the Early Cold War
Monique Scheer (Tübingen)
The Religious Undercurrent of the Cold War: Popular Catholic Culture in the 1950s, or: How the Virgin Mary Protected the West from Communism
Saturday, April 28
Panel VI: Historicization (8.30h – 11:00h)
Moderation/Comment:Leo Schmidt (Cottbus)
Paper:Andrew Beattie (Sydney)
Cold War Culture in post-Cold war Germany? Politicization, Historicization and Memorialization since 1989 – 1990
Petra Henzler (Berlin)
Negotiating with Tempelhof. Changing Codes of the Airport in the Cultural Transformation of the 20th Century
Dmitirii Sidorov (Long Beach, CA)
Russian Cold War Culture? Post-Soviet Historicization of post-WWII Geopolitics
Meike Wulf (London)
Purity and danger in reciprocal images of Soviet Estonians and Estonians living abroad
Final Discussion (11.30h – 13.00h)
Konrad H. Jarausch (Chapel Hill)
Bernd Stöver (Potsdam)
Elena Zubkova (Moscow)