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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">COLD WAR CULTURES:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">TRANSNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">30 SEPTEMBER - 3 OCTOBER 2010, AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 1 APRIL 2010</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">WWW.COLDWARCULTURES.ORG</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">MUHSIN JASSIM AL-MUSAWI (ARABIC LITERATURE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">KATE BROWN (HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">AMBASSADOR ROBERT HUTCHINGS (LBJ SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, UT AUSTIN)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">JOHN D. KELLY (ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">If war is the continuation of politics by other means, then Cold War politics can be seen as a continuation of war by other means. This interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore these means in the context of global encounters between states and ?Blocs? as well as engagements with ?East? and ?West.? Indeed, after the end of the Second World War, a new kind of ?war? continued and expanded as governments and/or interest groups created and continually reshaped institutions, media, popular culture, and various elements of social and political life. Globally, these broad-based transformations took place in the shadow of Cold War politics, especially as expressed through rhetoric of threat and mutual annihilation. In particular, cultural phenomena shaped by Cold War power conflicts take on myriad forms in a host of geographic contexts, both in and outside the Bloc, from iconic public representations to distinctive media advertising, memorable political speeches, world expositions, spy novels and films, and a plethora of official and popular modes of expression. In some places, of course, military or paramilitary conflagrations translated Cold War politics into ?hot? wars, which further fueled the fire of Cold War imaginations.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">We invite proposals for individual 20-minute papers that explore any geographic area or disciplinary field of Cold War studies, as well as contributions that might engage the notion the of "Cold War" theoretically. Full panels of three papers may also be proposed (however, please submit all papers and biographies for full panels together in a single email).</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">SUBMISSIONS</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Deadline: April 1, 2010</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Submit your abstract of 150-200 words in an email (no attachments) to <a href="mailto:coldwarcultures@gmail.com">coldwarcultures@gmail.com</a>.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Put "ABSTRACT: Cold War Conference" in the subject line of the email.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Include a brief biographical statement (max. 150 words) in the email.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">POSSIBLE PAPER & PANEL TOPICS</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Material and consumer cultures</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Popular culture and everyday life</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Borders, walls, and the Iron Curtain</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Surveillance, torture and show trials</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Literature, music, art and architecture, film and other media</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The space and arms races</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Commodities, trade and the environment</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Cold War client states, arms dealing and proxy wars</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Spies and intelligence communities (in fact or fiction)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Dissidents and defections</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>"Neutral" sites, nonalignment, and the intersection of North-South and East-West dynamics</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>International institutions and Trans-national networks</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">DETAILS</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>No registration fee for the conference; open to the public.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Conference will open on Thursday, September 30, with a keynote address and sessions will continue until noon on Sunday, October 3.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Conference sessions will be held in classrooms with standard media podia allowing for playing of DVDs, CDs, and PowerPoints. Include a note in your email if you need any other form of media.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Attendees who are not giving papers are encouraged to register for the conference mailing list by sending an email to <a href="mailto:coldwarcultures@gmail.com">coldwarcultures@gmail.com</a> and putting "INFORMATION REQUEST: Cold War Conference" in the subject line of the email.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A block of rooms will be reserved at a local hotel for participants' convenience.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>For presenters with limited resources, it may be possible to arrange space with local hosts.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">This conference is the centerpiece in a series of several events on the UT campus, all of which are free and open to the public. Plans include a Cold War Film Series, curated and introduced by members of the UT faculty and multiple keynotes during the conference, representing the geopolitical and cultural interests of the UT Centers and Institutes.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">For more information, consult the conference website at <a href="http://www.coldwarcultures.org">www.coldwarcultures.org</a> OR contact the organizing committee at <a href="mailto:coldwarcultures@gmail.com">coldwarcultures@gmail.com</a>.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Major Conference Sponsors at the University of Texas at Austin:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Center for European Studies</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Center for Middle Eastern Studies</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>South Asia Institute/Center for East Asian Studies</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <br></body></html>