Aleksanteri Conference 2009: Cold War Interactions Reconsidered - Call for Papers out now!

The Call for Papers of the Annual Aleksanteri Conference 2009 is now published and available at the conference website http://www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/conference2009/.

Themes of the conference

• Interactions across Boundaries. Cultural, economic and political exchanges, contacts and cooperation; know-how and technology transfers.
• Behind the Scenes and Beyond the State. Individuals and networks, non-governmental and non-state agents.
• The Cold War’s Effects. The impact of the Cold War and transnational interactions on ideology, culture, civil society; communication and identity, everyday life and consumption; and perceptions of the “other”.
• The Cold War and the Present. Politics of the past; Vergangenheitsbewältigung, (n)ostalgia.
• Reconsidering the Cold War. Critical reconceptualisation and periodisation; new approaches, theories and methodologies. The Cold War as a resource and/or a limitation.

Keynote speakers

• Professor Nadia Arbatova, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russia
  
• Dr. Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  
• Dr. Serguei Oushakine, Princeton University, USA
  
• Mr. Yale Richmond, USA
  
• Professor Jadwiga Staniszkis, Poland
  
• Professor Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
  

Conference Schedule and Deadlines:

Proposals for panels (approx. 500 words): March 15, 2009
Abstracts for individual papers (approx. 300 words): March 15, 2009
Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2009
Conference: October 29–31, 2009

For more info visit the website http://www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/conference2009/.