Beginning in the 2014-2015 academic year, the Cold War Studies Project at LSE IDEAS, the Department of International History at LSE, and the Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po in Paris are co-organising the joint LSE-Sciences Po Seminar in Contemporary International History (HY510).
The seminar welcomes presentations on any aspect of contemporary international history, with a focus on the Cold War.
The seminar is open to all PhD students and staff at both LSE and Sciences Po.
We also welcome outside participants: if you would like to take part in the seminar, please e-mail the course organiser, stating your affiliation and area of research.
Seminar participants can see papers for each seminar here. (login required)
All sessions will be held in 32 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, room B.13 between 16.00 and 18.00
Michaelmas Term
Wednesday 5 October 2016
Prof. Michael Cox (LSE): ‘Rethinking the end of the Cold War: Debates, Contestations and Questions’
Discussant: Prof. Mario del Pero (Sciences Po)
Wednesday 19 October 2016
Gabrielle Chomentowski (Sciences Po): ‘Soviet-African cooperation in Cinema: a case study for Cold War history, Post-colonial history and Independent African countries history’
Wednesday 9 November 2016
Laurien Crump (Utrecht): ‘A Pan-European Perspective on European Security and Cooperation: The Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe beyond the Cold War, 1973-1983’
Wednesday 23 November 2016
Aude-Cécile Monnot (Sciences Po): ‘Soviet Central Asian Pilgrims at the Hajj in the 1950s-1960s: Form Religion Experiences to Non-Aligned Diplomatic Attempts’
Wednesday 7 December 2016
Emmanuel Comte (Berkeley): ‘Renewing Access for France to African Resources during Decolonisation, 1956-1964’
Lent Term
Wednesday 18 January 2017
Elisa Capdevilla (Sciences Po): ‘Expatriates and Citizens: Fighting for Civil Rights Abroad in the 1960s – The Case of the 1963 Paris March’
Wednesday 1 February 2017
Linda Risso (Institute of Historical Research, London): ‘Invisible and Invaluable: NATO’s International Staff since 1949’
Wednesday 22 February 2017
Tommaso Milani (LSE): ‘The Labour Plan: The Rise and Fall of a Transnational Socialist Project, 1932-1938’
Wednesday 8 March 2017
Edoardo Andreoni (Cambridge): ‘1985, the ‘Year of SDI’: Reagan, ‘Star Wars’ and transatlantic relations’
Wednesday 22 March 2017
Prof. Sabine Dullin (Sciences Po): ‘Sovereignty and its political uses – Soviet Republics in International Relations in the 1950s and 1960s’
Michaelmas Term
Wednesday 12 October 2016
Kristina Spohr (LSE): ‘The Global Chancellor’
Roundtable with Mario del Pero and Eric Bussière
Wednesday 9 November 2016
Robert Brier (LSE): ‘Rethinking the “Anti-Totalitarian Moment”: The 1970s, Human Rights, and the Intellectual History of the Late Cold War’
Wednesday 30 November 2016
Rui Lopes (LSE/Instituto de História Contemporânea, Universidade Nova Lisboa): ‘Red Rocket and KGBeast: The end of the Cold War in DC Comics’
Lent Term
Wednesday 1 March 2017
Bastiaan Bouwman (LSE): ‘From ‘responsible society’ to ‘all rights for all people’: The World Council of Churches and Human Rights, 1948-1980’
Wednesday 22 March 2016
Olivier Burtin (Princeton), ‘The American Legion and the Global Cold War’ [in English and French]
Wednesday 26 April 2016
Moshik Temkin (Harvard), ‘The Past and Future of the Death Penalty in the United States in Transatlantic Perspective’