Friday, 27 May 2016
Venue: Utown Education Resource Centre Seminar Room 3
10:00am | Bus departures from the hotel |
10:30am | Registration |
10:45 am | Brian Farrell (National University of Singapore): Welcoming Remarks
Self-introduction and Coffee time |
11:00-12:30pm | Session 1: Re-conceptualizing the Cold War |
Masuda Hajimu (National University of Singapore): Opening Remarks: “The Cold War as Social Mechanism: Why Do We ‘Unlearn’ Cold War Narratives, and What Are Prospects and Aims? |
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John Munro (St. Mary’s University): “The Early Cold War Conjuncture as Racial Capitalism and Settler Colonialism” |
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Victoria Vasilenko (Belgorod National Research University): “Contemporary Russian Historiography of the Cold War: Is There Room for Reassessment?” |
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Discussant: David Engerman (Brandies University) | |
12:30-2:00 pm | Lunch |
2:00-3:30 pm | Session 2: Decolonization and Domestic Politics |
Poppy Cullen (Cambridge University): “‘Playing Cold War Politics’: The Multiple Uses of the Cold War in the Anglo-Kenyan Relationship” |
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Gary Baines (Rhodes University): “Rethinking the Contours of Cold War History in Southern Africa” |
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Colleen Wood (University of Maryland): “Globalizing Huklandia: Counterinsurgency, Decolonization and Anti-Communist Geographies” |
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Discussant: Heonik Kwon (University of Cambridge) | |
3:30-4:00 pm | Coffee Break |
4:00-5:30 pm | Session 3: Local Realties and Historical Continuity |
Sidnei J. Munhoz (Universidade Estadual de Maringá): “Political and Social Conflicts in Brazil at the Onset of the Cold War” |
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Vanni Pettinà (El Colegio de México): “México and the Third World Project (1958-1964): Reconnecting the Western Hemisphere to the Global Cold War” |
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Fernando Purcell (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile): “Peace Corps, Community Development and Local Realities during the Cold War in South America, 1960s” |
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Magdalena López (University of Buenos Aires): “The ‘Anticommunist’ Paraguay: A Revision of Stroessner’s Dictatorship, 1954-1989” |
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Discussant: Alan L. McPherson (University of Oklahoma) | |
6:00pm | Dinner |
Saturday, 28 May 2016
Venue: Utown Education Resource Centre Seminar Room 3
8:45-10:15am | Session 4: Localized “Cold War” |
Hyung-Wook Kim (University of California Los Angeles): “Localized Cold War and Its Derivatives in Korea” |
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Sinae Hyun (Nanyang Technological University): “‘Others Within’ during the Cold War: Counterinsurgent Nation Building by the Thai Border Patrol Police” |
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Edgar Elbakyan (Yerevan State University): “Re-Assessing the Term ‘Cold War Conflicts’: The Case of the Conflict around South Azerbaijan” |
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Discussant: S.R. Joey Long (National University of Singapore) | |
10:15-10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30-12:00am | Session 5: Ordinary People’s “Cold War” |
Chen Song-Chuan (Nanyang Technological University): “Cold War Child: Economic Lives under Militarisation on the Frontier Islands Matsu” |
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Chien-Wen Kung (Columbia University): “Practicing Anticommunism: Elites, Criminals, and Ideological Accommodation in Philippine-Chinese Society, 1948-1952” |
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David Mills (Minnesota West Community College): “Cold War in a Cold Land: Rhetoric Works Both Ways Between People and Governments” |
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Discussant: Paul Steege (Villanova University) | |
12:00-1:30pm | Lunch |
1:30-3:00pm | Session 6: Cold War Popular Culture |
Dean Vuletic (University of Vienna): “Competition and Cooperation in Cold War Popular Culture: The Eurovision and Intervision Song Contests” |
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Xu Lanjun (National University of Singapore): “The Southern Film Corporation, Chinese Opera Films and the PRC’s Cultural Propaganda in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, 1950s-1960s” |
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Xiaojue Wang (Rutgers University): “Radio on Screen: Cold War Hong Kong Films” |
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Discussant: Petrus Liu (Yale-NUS College) | |
3:00-3:15pm | Coffee Break |
3:15-4:45pm | Session 7: Roundtable |
David Engerman (Brandies University) Heonik Kwon (University of Cambridge) Petrus Liu (Yale-NUS College) Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu (Rice University) Paul Steege (Villanova University)Moderator: Masuda Hajimu (National University of Singapore) |
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5:30pm | Dinner |