FROM HOT WAR TO COLD WAR:
TRANSNATIONAL
TRAJECTORIES
A WORKSHOP ORGANIZED BY TARIK CYRIL AMAR AND
JARED MCBRIDE
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015
420 W 118th St., Room 1512
New York, NY
SESSION ONE
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Images of War, Peace, and Revolution
Comments: Irina Sandomirskaja (Södertörn University)
Tarik Cyril Amar (Columbia University), “Cold War
Mythologies of Secrecy: Espionage Heroes in Soviet and
East European TV Series”
Rad Borislavov (Columbia University), “Behind the Iron
Curtain: Soviet Cinema and Images of Consumption in
the 1960s”
Serhy Yekelchyk (University of Victoria), “National Heroes for
a New Ukraine: Merging the Vocabularies of the
Diaspora, Revolution, and Mass Culture”
BREAK
12:00 – 1:30 PM
SESSION TWO
1:30 – 3:30 PM
Émigré Politics and War Memory
Comments: Dominique Arel (University of Ottawa)
Jared McBride (Columbia University), “The CIA’s Ratline?
Ukrainian Nationalists in Emigration in the Early Cold
War”
Benjamin Tromly (University of Puget Sound), “How the
West was Won: The People’s Labor Alliance, Russian
Émigré Politics, and the CIA”
Per Anders Rudling (Lund University), “Cold
War Representations of a Wartime Life: Memory and
Contention”
SESSION THREE
3:45 – 5:45 PM
Global Developments: Divisions and Contacts Beyond the
Cold War Core
Comments: Juliane Fürst (University of Bristol)
Elidor Mehilli (Hunter College), “On Transnational Contacts”
Malgorzata Mazurek (Columbia University), “Bandung
Economics: Polish Economic Advisers in India, 19551960”
Abigail Kret (Princeton University), “Beyond the Cold War
Divide: International Development and Globalization
1968-1985”