International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War

2012 conference at LSE IDEAS

The International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War is jointly organsied by

• The Cold War Studies Project at LSE IDEAS
• The Center for Cold War Studies and International History, University of California, Santa Barbara
• The Cold War Group, George Washington University, Washington D.C.

The annual conference alternates between the three campuses. The conference is an excellent opportunity for graduate students to present papers and receive critical feedback from peers and experts in the field. The author of the best paper at the annual conference is awarded the Saki Ruth Dockrill Memorial Prize.

In 2003, the University of California and George Washington University first joined their separate spring conferences, and two years later LSE IDEAS became a co-sponsor. 

Listen to podcasts from previous conferences. 

Call for Papers for 2017 Graduate Conference Now Open

The call for papers for the 2017 conference in at the University of California, Santa Barbara are now open until Friday January 27 2017.

Find out how to apply on the Cold War Studies Project call for papers page. 

Conferences 

• 2017: University of California, Santa Barbara
• 2016: George Washingtong University, Washington D.C.
• 2015: LSE IDEAS
• 2014: University of California, Santa Barbara
• 2013: George Washingtong University, Washington D.C.
• 2012: LSE IDEAS
• 2011: University of California, Santa Barbara
• 2010: George Washingtong University, Washington D.C.
• 2009: LSE IDEAS
• 2008: University of California, Santa Barbara
• 2007: George Washingtong University, Washington D.C.
• 2006: LSE IDEAS
• 2005: University of California, Santa Barbara

Saki Ruth Dockrill Memorial Prize

Saki Ruth Dockrill, née Saki Namura, was an eminent historian of the Cold War, British and American foreign policy, international relations, the Pacific War and its long-term ramifications for East Asian security. Among a number of academic posts, she was Professor of Contemporary History and International Security at King's College London but above all she was an inspiring and approachable teacher. Professor Saki Dockrill died on 8 August 2009 after a long and courageous battle against cancer.

The Saki Ruth Dockrill Memorial Prize is given in her memory by her friends and colleagues to the author of the best paper at the annual IDEAS-GWU-UCSB International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War.

The winner's paper is published in Cold War History, and is awarded £100 in book vouchers.

Winners of the Saki Ruth Dockrill Memorial Prize

• 2016: Mateo Jarquín, Red Christmases: The Sandinistas, Indigenous Rebellion and the Origins of the Nicaraguan Civil War, 1981-82
• 2015: George Roberts, The assignation of Eduardo Mondlane: FRELIMO, Tanzania, and the politics of exile in Dar es Salaam
• 2014: Aaron Coy Moulton, Building their own Cold War in their own backyard: the transnational, international conflicts in the greater Caribbean basin, 1944-1954
• 2013: Charles Kraus, To Die on the Steppe: Sino-Soviet-American Relations and the Cold War in Chinese Central Asia, 1944-1952
• 2012: Amy Rutenberg, Drafting for domesticity: American deferment policy during the Cold War, 1948-1965
• 2011: Jamie Miller, Things fall apart: South Africa and the collapse of the Portuguese Empire, 1973-74
• 2010: Andrea Oñate, The Red Affair: FMLN-Cuban relations during the Salvadoran Civil War, 1981-92
• 2009: Jeremy Friedman, Soviet policy in the developing world and the Chinese challenge in the 1960s

Podcasts

Listen to these podcasts from the International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War

Andrew Preston on ‘Religion in the Cold War’

Panel: Regime Change in the Cold War and Beyond with Chair Piers Ludlow,  Artemy Kalinovsky, Vanni Pettinà, and Salim Yaqub 

Panel: The Paradox of Increasing Cold War Research with Chair Arne Hofmann, Anne Deighton, Arne Westad and Matthew Jones