2010 School on Cold War History
Fundação Getulio Vargas / London School of Economics and Political Science
Rio de Janeiro
29 de setembro – 1º de outubro de 2010
Instructors:
Verena Alberti (FGV)
Leslie Bethell (Associate Researcher, FGV)
Mariana Cavalcanti (FGV)
Tanya Harmer (LSE)
Pio Penna Filho (UnB)
Sergey Radchenko (University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China)
Alfredo Riqueleme (PUC, Santiago)
Matias Spekor (FGV)
Arne Westad (LSE)
The 2010 LSE-FGV Cold War History School in Rio de Janeiro will focus on the recent scholarship related to the global Cold War, with a special emphasis on Latin America, Asia and Europe. Key topics explored during the School will include the role of ideology and the spread of ideas across continents, the rise of the Third World and Third Worldism, the Cold War in Latin America and in Brazil, and different paths to economic development during the Cold War era. The goal is to expose graduate students to new research in the field of international Cold War scholarship and help build the case for exploring the connection between the global Cold War and regional politics.
The School is primarily designed for up to 50 advanced graduate students, doctoral candidates and young faculty in Latin America drawn from history and the social sciences broadly defined. It comprises lectures, a roundtable discussion and ample time for students to talk individually about their research ideas with the School’s instructors. This is the inaugural Graduate School held at FGV and the organizers expect it to be the first of a list of annual thematic schools in years to come.
SCHEDULE:
Wednesday September 29
9:00 -9:30 Arrival, coffee and registration
9:30 – 10:30 Lecture 1: ARNE WESTAD: The global Cold War: Historians’ Perspectives.
10:30 – 11:30 Lecture 2: ALFREDO RIQUELME: The Soviet Union and Latin America before World War II (in Spanish)
11:30 - 12.00 Break
12:00 – 13:00 Lecture 3: SERGEY RADCHENKO: Stalin, the Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.00 Lecture 4: LESLIE BETHELL: The Origins of the Cold War in Latin America
15.00 – 16.00 Lecture 5: SERGEY RADCHENKO: The Soviet Union, China and the Sino-Soviet Dispute
16.00 – 16.30 Break
16:30 – 17.30 Lecture 6: VERENA ALBERTI: Doing Archival Research at CPDOC (in Portuguese)
18.00 – 19.30 CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE COLD WAR – Launch and Reception
Thursday September 30
9.30-10.30 Lecture 1: TANYA HARMER: Cuba and Cold War
10.30-11.30 Lecture 2: LESLIE BETHELL: The Cold War and the 1964 Golpe in Brazil
11.30-12.00 Break
12.00-13.00 Lecture 3: ALFREDO RIQUELME: Between Reform and Revolution: Left –wing debates and the Cold War in the 1960s and 1970s (in Spanish)
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Lecture 4: ARNE WESTAD: The Cold War and Paths to Development
15.15-16.15 Lecture 5: PIO PENNA FILHO: WORKING WITH BRAZILIAN ARCHIVES (in Portuguese).
16.15-16.45 Break
16.45-18.00 METHODOLOGY ROUNDTABLE: WORKING WITH ORAL HISTORY (in English and Portuguese): MARIANA CAVALCANTI, TANYA HARMER, SERGEY RADCHENKO, MATIAS SPEKTOR, ARNE WESTAD.
Friday October 1
9.30 – 10.30 Lecture 1: SERGEY RADCHENKO: Gorbachev and the End of the Cold War
10.30-11.30 Lecture 2: MATIAS SPEKTOR: The Cold War and the “rising states”.
11.30-12.00 Break
12.00-13.00 Final Remarks & Certificate Presentations
14.00-17.00 Historical City Tour of Downtown Rio de Janeiro
