H-Soz-u-Kult has released a report on the CWIHP co-sponsored conference The Cold War: History, Memory, Representation, which was held from 14-16 July 2011 at the European Academy in Berlin.
H-Soz-u-Kult has released a report on the CWIHP co-sponsored conference The Cold War: History, Memory, Representation, which was held from 14-16 July 2011 at the European Academy in Berlin.
Visit the H-Soz-u-Kult to read the conference report in full.
Conference Overview:
Panel 1 / The Cold War: Master Narratives In East And West
Odd Arne Westad (London): On The Historiography Of The Cold War
Anders Stephanson (New York): The Cold War As Metaphor And Trope
David Reynolds (Cambridge): Western Europe – Probing The Cold War Narrative
Vladimir Pechatnov (Moscow): Twenty Years Of Changing Interpretations Of The Cold War In Russia
History, Memory And The Cold War
Jay Winter (Yale): The Cold War Between History And Memory
Panel 2 / Official and Biographical Memorialization
Marie-Pierre Rey (Paris): Memorialization Or Mythologization? A Comparative Approach To The Attitudes Of The French And Russian States Towards The Cold War
Sergej Kudryashov (Moscow): Painful Memories: Russian Attitude Towards The End Of The Cold War In Europe
Matthias Uhl (Moscow): Spies Which Saved the World? The Construction Of Biographies Of George Blake and Oleg Penkovsky – New Approaches
Thomas Lindenberger (Vienna): The Cold War? I Rather Have It In My Family… East-West Discrepancies In Remembering Cold War Times
Panel 3 / Popular Culture And School Books
Tony Shaw (Hertfordshire): Cold War Films (East and West)
Christopher Moran (Warwick): Ian Fleming, British Spy Fiction And The Public Profile Of The Central Intelligence Agency
Falk Pingel (Brunswick): The Cold War In History And Social Studies Textbooks
Panel 4 / Places Of Memory
Wayne Cocroft: Protect and Survive: Protecting, Preserving And Presenting Cold War Heritage
Csaba Békés (Budapest): Cold War Memory Sites And Museums In Central Europe
Heonik Kwon (London): The Postcolonial Cold War
Panel 5 / Berlin As A Place Of Memory Of The Cold War
Hope M. Harrison (Washington): The Resurrection Of The Berlin Wall As A Site Of Memory
Sybille Frank (Darmstadt): Competing For The Best Wall Memorial: The Heritage Industry At Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin
Konrad Jarausch (North Carolina): Project For A Museum Of The Cold War At Checkpoint Charlie
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