Conférence : 1983, l’année la plus dangereuse de la Guerre Froide? (Programme détaillé)
Veuillez trouver ci-dessous le programme détaillé de la conférence « 1983 Remembered » organisée par le Département d’Histoire de la London School of Economics pour marquer le 40ème anniversaire de l’année 1983 – sans doute l’une des les plus dangereuses de la Guerre Froide. La conférence se déroulera en présentiel à la LSE entre les 12 et 14 décembre 2023.
Le programme se trouve également sur le site de la conférence (lien au bas de la page d’accueil):
www.lse.ac.uk/International-History/Events/2023/1983-Remembered
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Bien cordialement,
Chloë Mayoux
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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
TUESDAY – 12 DECEMBER
5:00pm – 6:00pm: Conference Reception (Staff Dining Room, Level 5, Old Building, LSE)
6:00pm – 8:00pm: Introductory remarks: Vladislav Zubok (LSE); Matthew Jones (LSE); Victoria Phillips (LSE and Woodrow Wilson Center)
Keynote Lecture: David Holloway (Stanford University), ‘Reflections on 1983’ (Wolfson Lecture Theatre)
WEDNESDAY – 13 DECEMBER
(LSE Life Workspace 4, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE)
9:30am – 10:00am: Breakfast
10.00am – 11:30am: Twin Tracks and Zero Options: The Euromissiles Crisis in long-term perspective
Chair: Sergey Radchenko (SAIS, Johns Hopkins)
Speakers: Susan Colbourn (Duke University)
Ollie Barton (DSTL)
Leopoldo Nuti (Università Roma Tre)
11:30am – 11.45am: Tea/Coffee Break
11:45am – 1:15pm: Protest and Survive? Anti-nuclear activism in retrospect
Chair: Margaret Peacock (University of Alabama and Woodrow Wilson Center)
Speakers: Luc Brunet (Open University)
Victoria Phillips (LSE and Woodrow Wilson Center)
Discussant: Carol Gluck (Columbia University)
1:15pm – 2:00pm: Lunch
2:00pm – 3:15pm: Women, Children, and the Propaganda Battles of 1983
Chair: Frank Costigliola (University of Connecticut)
Speakers: Margaret Peacock (University of Alabama and Woodrow Wilson Center)
Dina Fainberg (City University)
Discussant: Tony Shaw (University of Hertfordshire)
3:15pm – 3.30pm: Tea/Coffee Break
3.30pm – 5:00pm: How close to the Brink? The Able Archer Controversy revisited
Chair: David Holloway (Stanford University)
Speakers: Simon Miles (Duke University)
Ben Griffin (Department of History, West Point)
Discussant: Leopoldo Nuti (Università Roma Tre)
5.00pm-5.45pm: Roundtable on interrogating the archive: Hard and soft power perspectives on 1983
Victoria Phillips (LSE and Woodrow Wilson Center); Christian Ostermann (Woodrow Wilson Center); Susan Colbourn (Duke University); Simon Miles (Duke University); Margaret Peacock (Alabama and Woodrow Wilson Center); Tony Shaw (Hertfordshire)
6.30pm-8.00pm – Keynote Lecture: Frank Costigliola (University of Connecticut): George F. Kennan and the end of the Cold War (MAR.1.04, Level 1, Marshall Building, LSE) chaired by Vladislav Zubok (LSE)
THURSDAY – 14 DECEMBER
(LSE Life Workspace 4, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE)
9:30am – 10.00am: Breakfast
10:00am – 11:30am: The Global Cold War in 1983: Africa, Central America and Afghanistan
Chair: Christian Ostermann (Woodrow Wilson Center)
Speakers: Sue Onslow (SAS, University of London) – Africa
Eline van Ommen (Leeds University) – Central America
Elisabeth Leake (Tufts University) – Afghanistan
11:30am – 11.45am: Tea/Coffee Break
11:45am – 1:15pm: Scientists and Star Wars
Chair: Victoria Phillips (LSE and Woodrow Wilson Center)
Speakers: Aaron Bateman (George Washington University) – Reagan and SDI in 1983
Matthew Evangelista (Cornell) – The Soviet Union and SDI
Tony Shaw (Hertfordshire) – The Cold War on film
1:15pm – 2:00pm: Lunch
2:00pm – 3.30pm: The Soviet Union and the question of decline in 1983
Chair: Sue Onslow (SAS, University of London)
Speakers: Vladislav Zubok (LSE)
Sergey Radchenko (SAIS, Johns Hopkins)
Discussants: David Holloway (Stanford)/Matthew Evangelista (Cornell)
3:30pm – 3:45pm: Tea/Coffee Break
3.45pm – 5:15pm: Roundtable: Was 1983 a Turning Point in the Cold War?
Participants: David Holloway, Leopoldo Nuti, Christian Ostermann, Susan Colbourn, Frank Costigliola; Elisabeth Leake, Vladislav Zubok, Elizabeth Peacock, Sue Onslow, Sergey Radchenko
6:30pm-8.00pm: Closing lecture: Carol Gluck (Columbia University): Nuclear Holocaust and Historical Memory, chaired by Victoria Phillips (LSE and Woodrow Wilson Center)
(MAR.1.04, Level 1, Marshall Building, LSE)