BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//www.europe-richie.org//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.10.5// METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Richie X-WR-CALDESC:Agenda Richie X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Paris BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20130520T100214CEST-4995CZzOoH@www.europe-richie.org DTSTAMP:20130520T080514Z CATEGORIES:Rencontres scientifiques COMMENT: DESCRIPTION:The conference seeks to examine the ‘selling’ of Cold War-motiv ated policies to national audiences during the second half of the twentiet h century. At its core\, the Cold War was a global ideological conflict\, pitting two uncompromising and often messianic systems against one another \, systems which both rejected traditional European imperialism and which claimed to provide the ultimate solution to problems of global instability and human inequality.\n\nHowever\, stemming from dual foundations of ‘mak ing the world safe for democracy’ on one hand and the Marxist theory of fa lse consciousness on the other\, ideological diversions appeared on both s ides of the Cold War divide in order to confront changing international cl imates and maintain the respective ‘Grand Strategies’ of global transforma tion in line with each side’s chosen systems of government and society. When faced with complicated issues\, such as internment\, foreign interven tion or more general limits to human rights\, the decisions were often inc onsistent with previous proclamations and in stark contrast to the guiding principles of the system. In these instances (for example\, the support f or a dictator like Pinochet or the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia) just ifications for questionable actions were created and corresponding discuss ions held to decide which decisions could be made public and which must re main classified. By examining these controversial issues\, one can not onl y understand how official policy was transmitted through the mass media\, but also dissect the relationship between political ideology and the large r issue of Grand Strategy.\n\nWhile growing attention is paid to the publi c diplomacy of the Cold War\, less attention is paid specifically to how g overnments sold policies to their own domestic public. This conference ai ms to stimulate innovative and interdisciplinary thinking and dialogue on this topic and to reach out to new networks of interest and new publics. 1 December (Mill Lane Lecture Room 9)\n\n\n9.30-10.00 – Registration\n\n10 .00-10.30 – Opening address\n\n10.30-12.00 – Panel 1: Sports and Culture • Umberto Tulli (University of Bologna): Selling the Olympic Boycott. Th e Carter Administration\, the American Public and the Decision to Boycott the Moscow Olympic Games\n • Tim Crook (Goldsmiths\, University of London) : George Orwell-Cold War Radio Warrior?\n • Christos Lynteris (CRASSH): ‘R evolutionary scalpels’: Sino-Soviet conflict and the battle over socialist medicine in the People’s Republic of China\n\n\n12.00-13.00 – Lunch (CRAS SH\, 17 Mill Lane)\n\n13.00-14.30 – Panel 2: PR under Communism\n\n • Yi Guolin (Wayne State University): Turning the Enemy into Your Friend: the Chinese Preparation for Rapprochement with the United States\n • Václav Sm idrkal (Prague University): Sealed off from the West: Public Relations of the Czechoslovak Border Policy (1948-1989)\n \n • Ned Richardson-Little (U niversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Making Human Rights Socialist : The GDR Committee for Human Rights\, 1959-1990\n\n\n14.30-15.00 – Coffee /Tea (CRASSH\, 17 Mill Lane)\n\n15.00-16.30 – Panel 3: selling extra-Europ ean intervention\n\n • Simon Toner (LSE): ‘What is it that we have to sell ?’: Sir Robert Thompson\, Richard Nixon and Vietnamization\, 1969-1973\n • Rouven Kunstmann (University of Oxford): Cold War Images and the Imperial Press-British Journalism in the Colonies\n • Martin Deuerlein (University of Tübingen): ‘On the Events in Afghanistan’: Strategies to justify the i nvasion of Afghanistan to the Soviet public\, 1979-1989\n\n\n\n\n2 Decembe r (CRASSH\, 17 Mill Lane)\n\n\n\n10.00-12.00 – Panel 4: Taking sides: CW P R in Western Europe\n\n • Sören Philipps (University of Hanover): ‘Reptile Fund’ and ‘Working Committee of Democratic Circles’ (AdK)1. How Adenauer ‘sold’ West German Rearmament to pacifist German public\n • Marianne Rostg aard (Aalborg University): David against Goliath and other stories of how Denmark disciplined the US and outsmarted the USSR during the early years of the cold war\n • Sandra Bott and Jannick Schaufenbuehl (University of L ausanne): Taking sides while claiming neutrality: The Swiss Government’s C old War discourse\n • Scott Anthony (University of Cambridge): ‘Tate not s tate’: The Aims of Industry and ‘British’ public relations in the cold war \n\n12.00-13.00 – Lunch\n\n13.00-15.00 – Panel 5: Military and Intelligenc e and the use of PR\n\n • Silvia Berger (University of Zurich): Civil defe nse propaganda in Switzerland\n • Steven Casey (LSE): The U.S. Military & Cold War Public Relations: The Reporting of Combat Casualties during the K orean and Vietnam Wars\n • Giles Scott-Smith (Leiden University): The Chal lenge of Coexistence: The West European Intelligence Services\, Anti-Commu nism\, and Interdoc\n • Jerry Lembcke (College of the Holy Cross): ‘Spat-o n Veterans and “Hanoi Jane”‘: Lost-war Betrayal Themes from Vietnam in Ame rican Political Culture Today\n\n\n15.00-15.30 – Coffee/Tea\n\n15.30-16.30 – Keynote: Christopher Andrew (University of Cambridge)\n\n\n3 December C RASSH\, 17 Mill Lane\n\n\n\n10.30-12.00 – Panel 6: TBD (Defining the state -media relationship)\n\n • Tony Shaw (University of Hertfordshire): tbc\n • Martin Dimitrov (Dartmouth and Harvard [Davis Center]): State Security a nd the Production of Regime Support in the Eastern Bloc (tbc)\n • Nicholas Cull (University of Southern California): tbc\n\n\n12.00-13.00 – Lunch 13.00-14.00 – Keynote: Arne Westad (LSE)\n\n14.00-16.00 – Panel 7: Cold W ar and the search for an American identity\n\n • Tim Borstelmann (Universi ty of Nebraska-Lincoln): From Hierarchical Conservatism to Egalitarian Lib eralism: The Cold War and the Struggle for American Identity\n • Kenneth O sgood (Colorado School of Mines): The Crusade for Freedom and the Selling of the Cold War: Advertising\, Intelligence\, and the Making of the Cold W ar Consensus in the United States\n • David Greenberg (Rutgers University) : The Propaganda Myth: American Anxieties about Political Persuasion Durin g the Cold War\n • Richard H. Cummings: Selling the Cold War in the United States: Crusade for Freedom\, Advertising Council\, and Media Public Serv ice Announcements\n\n\n16.00-16.30 – Coffee/Tea\n\n16.30 – Closing remarks DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20111201 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20111204 LOCATION:Cambridge (UK) ORGANIZER:MAILTO:hnm24@cam.ac.uk RESOURCES: SUMMARY:Public relations of the Cold War\nThe conference seeks to examine t he 'selling' of Cold War-motivated policies to national audiences during t he second half of the twentieth century. At its core\, the Cold War was a global ideological conflict\, pitting two uncompromising and often messian ic systems against one another\, systems which both rejected traditional E uropean imperialism and which claimed to provide the ultimate solution to problems of global instability and human inequality. URL:http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1702/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR