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.

• 2018: LSE IDEAS
• 2017: University of California, Santa Barbara
• 2016: George Washington University, Washington D.C.
• 2015: LSE IDEAS
• 2014: University of California, Santa Barbara
• 2013: George Washington University, Washington D.C.
• 2012: LSE IDEAS
• 2011: University of California, Santa Barbara
• 2010: George Washington University, Washington D.C.
• 2009: LSE IDEAS
• 2008: University of California, Santa Barbara
• 2007: George Washington University, Washington D.C.
• 2006: LSE IDEAS
• 2005: University of California, Santa Barbara

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

• 2019: Aleksandra Komornicka, “The Unity of Europe is inevitable: Poland and the European Economic Community in the 1970s”
• 2018: Cindy Ewing, 'With a Minimum of Bitterness':  Arab-Asian Solidarity and the Making of Global Rights at the United Nations
• 2016: Mateo Jarquín, Red Christmases: The Sandinistas, Indigenous Rebellion and the Origins of the Nicaraguan Civil War, 1981-82
• 2015: George Roberts, The assassination 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

Listen to these podcasts recorded at previous International Graduate Student Conferences on the Cold War

Andrew Preston on ‘Religion in the Cold War’

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

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

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