Medium, Message and Method in Cultures of the Cold War is an interdisciplinary symposium which brings together scholars working on Cold War culture. While this symposium focuses primarily on Germany as both a real and imagined site where the Cold War was practiced and performed, transnational encounters and exchanges will be at the core of our discussions. Accordingly, (East and West) German cultural, historical, and theoretical discourses will be considered in connection with Turkish, American, African, and Spanish contexts that influenced and inflected them.
The format of the proceedings is a roundtable discussion with pre-circulated papers. Presenters have been invited from a variety of North American institutions. Please email the organizer, Ela Gezen, if you would like to attend and retrieve the papers.
Date: Friday October 3rd, 2014
Time: 9.30 a.m. - 4.45 p.m.
Location: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Herter Hall, Room 601
161 Presidents Drive
Amherst, MA 01003
Organizer: Ela Gezen, Assistant Professor of German, egezen[at]german.umass.edu
This event is funded by the Max Kade Foundation, the Department of Languages Literature and Cultures at UMass, German and Scandinavian Studies at UMass, the Department of History at UMass, the Department of German at Amherst College, the Department of German Studies at Mount Holyoke College and the Five College Faculty Seminar in German Studies.