13th Annual Cold War History Research Center International Student Conference at Corvinus University of Budapest

13th Annual Cold War History Research Center International Student Conference at Corvinus University of Budapest

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Conference Opening
Opening Remarks
Csaba BÉKÉS, Professor, Corvinus University of Budapest, Director, Cold War History Research Center at Corvinus University of Budapest and the Centre for Social Sciences

Opening Speech
Előd TAKÁTS, Rector, Corvinus University of Budapest

Keynote Speech
Post Cold War Studies: The Next chapter in the Textbook
Margaret E. PEACOCK, Associate Professor of History, The University of Alabama

Panel 1 - Ideologies and Perceptions
Chair: Barnabás VAJDA (Selye János University, Komárno)

Italian neo-fascism in the Cold War. The example of the revolutionary movement Terza posizione
Carlo de Nuzzo (Sciences Po Paris, PhD candidate)

Prince Valerio Borghese and the Two Ita(Lies): Operation Gladio and the Years of Lead
Angelica Krystel Von Kumberg (Georgetown University, MA student)

The Korean War as Jim Crow War: North Korean psychological warfare and U.S. reception, 1950–1953
Jeongeun Park (Cold War Archives Research Fellow under the Wilson Center, Rutgers-New Brunswick, PhD candidate)

The East German Echo – Trust, Satisfaction, and Enemies
Katja Lau Petersen (University of Southern Denmark, MA student)

Panel 2 - Dissidents and Human Rights
Chair: Péter MARTON (Corvinus University of Budapest)

Rethinking Beijing: what Role for U.S.-Sponsored Human Rights? (1989–1994)
Stefano Chessa Altieri (Scuola Superiore Meridionale and Centre D'Histoire at Sciences Po, PhD candidate)

Another Form of Dissidence: African Student Protest in the Soviet Union
Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon (Cold War Archives Research Fellow under the Wilson Center, University of Pennsylvania, PhD candidate)

Bread, Not Bombs: Transnational Women Peace Activists’ Resistance to Nuclear Weapons and Military Expenditure in the 1980s
Adam J. Stone (Cold War Archives Research Fellow under the Wilson Center, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, PhD candidate)

Contradiction and Coalescence in the Post-Cold War Era: Discourses of Economics and Human Rights in Peru from 1990–2000
Ellen Fairfield Johnson (Cold War Archives Research Fellow under the Wilson Center, Columbia University/London School of Economics, Dual MA/MSc student)

Panel 3 - The United Kingdom's Cold War
Chair: Zoltán GÁLIK (Corvinus University of Budapest)

“A Showcase for the British Army”: Military Pageantry, Cold War Soft Power, and Soldiering in Berlin, 1945– 1971
Ellis Keeber (University of Bristol, PhD candidate)

The Anglo-American Special Relationship put to the Test: Evolution and Impact on the United Kingdom’s Accession to the EEC (1961–1973)
Margherita Capannoli (University of Bologna, MA student and research fellow).

Crossing the Bamboo Curtain 1: China’s Foreign Trade, British Merchants, and the End of the CHINCOM 1953–1957
Liu Yi (Geneva Graduate Institute, PhD candidate)

Panel 4 - The Influence of the Great Powers in the Global South

US–Indonesia Relations and the Link Between Food Aid, Development, and Security in Cold War Southeast Asia, 1963–1974
Widy Susanto (Cold War Archives Research Fellow under the Wilson Center, Bilkent University, PhD candidate)

Safety First, but Whose?: Competing East-West Tensions in Pakistani Security Policy, 1950–1980
Sara Jane Samuel (Columbia University, PhD candidate)

A Pro-Soviet Lobby Group in the Andes: The Party of the Revolutionary Left (PIR) in Bolivian Foreign Policy, 1949–1981
Daniel Farkas (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, PhD candidate)

Lenin in Chile: Salvador Allende, Leninism and the Chilean Road to Socialism
Jose Manuel Castro (Cold War Archives Research Fellow under the Wilson Center, University College London, PhD candidate)

Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Keynote Speech
Past Perfect(ed): How Politics of Nostalgia Colors History
Tinatin Japaridze, author of critically acclaimed Stalin’s Millennials

Panel 5 - Central Europe and the Global Cold War
Chair: Christopher WALSCH, (Corvinus University of Budapest)

The Role of Central Europe in the Arctic
Simon Szilvási (University of Public Service, Budapest, PhD candidate)

The Mutual Receptions of Hungarian and Chinese Reformisms around 1956
Lei Letian (Central European University, MA student)

Tragedy or opportunity? The communist parties of Western Europe and the change of system in Hungary
Andrew Michael Cragg (Central European University, PhD candidate)

The Development of Chinese Diplomatic Reception From 1958 to 1965 and Its Role in Chinese Propaganda
Liye Hong (Cold War Archives Research Fellow under the Wilson Center, George Washington University, PhD candidate)

Panel 6 - Scandinavia and the Baltics
Chair: Dániel VÉKONY, (Corvinus University of Budapest)

Norway, The Soviet Union, and the Specter of Bases on Svalbard
Olivia Wynne Houck (Cold War Archives Research Fellow under the Wilson Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PhD candidate)

Suspicions of Secrecy: The Joint Baltic American National Committee’s Resistance to the Sonnenfeldt Doctrine and OSI Cases of the 1970s and 80s
Kristen Einertson (Cold War Archives Research Fellow under the Wilson Center, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, PhD candidate)

A Church Under Communism: The Catholic Community and State Legitimacy in the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic
Nicole Harry (Cold War Archives Research Fellow under the Wilson Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, PhD candidate)

Scandinavian non-state actors and the transnational campaign against the Greek dictatorship, 1967–1974
Matthaios Amanatiadis (Uppsala University, PhD candidate)

Panel 7 - Intelligence and National Security
Chair: János KEMÉNY (University of Public Services, Budapest)

Female Collaborators through the Eyes of the Czechoslovak Secret Police during “Normalization” (1969–1989)
Jitka Drahotská (University of Cambridge, MPhil student)

Anticipating the enemy’s strategies in the Cold War: The Estimates of the Central Intelligence Agency during the Berlin Wall Crisis
Ștefania-Teodora Cocor (University of Bucharest, PhD candidate)

After Violence: (Re)Constructing National Security in Austria and Greece during the Cold War
Marion Foster (Cold War Archives Research Fellow under the Wilson Center, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin, PhD candidate)

Panel 8 - Music, Sport, and Techno Diplomacy
Chair: Éva Kőváriné IGNÁTH, (Corvinus University of Budapest)

 A 3-Pointer for American Cold War Diplomacy: Kent Washington in Communist Poland
Anna Podciborska (Cold War Archives Research Fellow under the Wilson Center, University of Gdańsk, PhD candidate)

The 1956 Polish October and Classical Music Composers
Montagu James (University of Cambridge (MPhil student)

In the Seam: Development of the Electric Grid in the Balkans – Case of Yougelexport Project
 Tijana Rupčić (Central European University, PhD candidate)

Roundtable
​​​​​​​How to Go Global? Cold War Archives Research (CWAR) Institute CARE International Project
Chair: Victoria Phillips

Closing Remarks
Csaba BÉKÉS, Professor, Corvinus University of Budapest, Director, Cold War History Research Center at Corvinus University of Budapest and the Centre for Social Sciences