Here Cold War scholars can see announcements and calls for papers from both the IDEAS Cold War Studies Project and other institutions.
This page is regularly updated, so if there are no open calls then check again soon.
If you'd like to feature your call for papers here, please e-mail the Cold War History Programme at: ideas@lse.ac.uk
Open calls
2017 Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War
The Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) of the University of California at Santa Barbara, the George Washington University Cold War Group (GWCW), and the LSE IDEAS Cold War Studies Project (CWSP) are pleased to announce their 2017 International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, to take place at the University of California, Santa Barbara, on April 27-29, 2017.
The conference is an excellent opportunity for graduate students to present papers and receive critical feedback from peers and experts in the field. We encourage submissions by graduate students working on any aspect of the Cold War, broadly defined. Of particular interest are papers that employ newly available primary sources or nontraditional methodologies.
To be considered, each prospective participant should submit:
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a two-page proposal
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a brief academic CV (in Word or pdf format)
to Salim Yaqub at syaqub@history.ucsb.edu by Friday, January 27, 2017.
Notification of acceptance will occur by Friday, February 24.
Successful applicants will be expected to email their papers (no longer than 25 pages) by Friday, March 24.
The author of the strongest paper will be awarded the Saki Ruth Dockrill Memorial Prize of £100 to be spent on books in any form. The winner will also have an opportunity to publish his or her article in the journal Cold War History.
For further information, please contact Salim Yaqub.
The chairs and commentators of the conference sessions will be prominent faculty members from UCSB, GWU, LSE IDEAS, and elsewhere. UCSB will cover the accommodation costs of admitted student participants for the duration of the conference, but students will need to cover the costs of their travel to Santa Barbara.
More information on Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War.
Open calls
Lessons and Legacies of Conflict Moderation: Insights from the Cold War
For the upcoming academic year (October 1, 2017 to September 30, 2018) the Berlin Center for Cold War Studies will award postdoctoral research fellowships to emerging and established scholars in the field of history. You may apply either for a six or a twelve months fellowship.
The 2017/2018 scholarships will be awarded to applicants with a special interest in the history of conflict moderation during the Cold War. When and by which means did conflict moderation succeed or fail? Who was involved? What were the intellectual and political guidelines, where did they originate, who sponsored them? Was there a mutual relation or impact between civil society-actors and professional diplomats? Which conflicts were moderated, which ignored? Are these modes of conflict moderation of any relevance for the post-Cold War world? Historians of international relations, of the history of détente and arms control, of cultural affairs and the history of ideas are encouraged to submit their applications. Find out more
Deadline: December 1, 2016