FIFTH ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE ON THE COLD WAR
University of California, Santa Barbara
May 19-20, 2000

FRIDAY, MAY 19, 2000

Opening Remarks (1:00-1:15 pm)
Fredrik Logevall, University of California, Santa Barbara

Panel I: The Cold War in Europe (1:15-3:15 pm)

Chair: David Schmitz, Whitman College

"A Real Life James Bond"
     Alexis Albion, Harvard University
          Discussant: Fritz Fischer, University of Northern Colorado

"Maniu, the National Peasants, and the Communization of Romania, 1944-1947"
     Daniel Pennell, Indiana University
          Discussant: Mark Byrnes, Norwich University

"You Can't Teach a Cold Warrior New Tricks: Rethinking Soviet Decision-Making During the Polish Crisis, 1980-1981"
     Gregory Domber, George Washington University
          Discussant: Tom Maddux, California State University, Northridge

"Allied Efforts to Dismantle Italian Fascism, 1945-1948"
     Kimber Quinney, University of California, Santa Barbara
          Discussant: David Schmitz, Whitman College

Coffee Break (3:15-3:30 pm)

Roundtable Discussion (3:30-5:30 pm)

"The Historian's Craft: Approaches to Writing"

Roger Dingman, University of Southern California
Kurkpatrick Dorsey, University of New Hampshire
Walter Hixson, University of Akron
Chester Pach, Ohio University
Moderator:  Fredrik Logevall

SATURDAY, MAY 20, 2000

Bagels and Coffee (9:00-9:30 am)

Panel II: Southeast Asia (9:30-11:30 am)

Chair: Arlene Lazarowitz, California State University, Long Beach

"A Casualty of America's Vietnam War: Ludwig Erhard's Political Quagmire over American Escalation in Vietnam, 1963-1966"
     Eugenie Blang, College of William & Mary 
          Discussant: Roger Dingman, University of Southern California

"Change and Evolution in ASEAN: Adapting to the Cold War in Southeast Asia"
     Haco Hoang, Boston University
          Discussant: Peter Edwards, Deakin University, Australia

"Republic or Empire? Rusk, De Gaulle and the United States in Vietnam"
     Lawrence Serewicz, University of Hull, U.K.
          Discussant: Fredrik Logevall, University of California, Santa Barbara

"The Futility of Middle Power Diplomacy: Canada and the Vietnam War, 1961-1966"
      Andrew Preston, Cambridge University, U.K.
            Discussant: Kurkpatrick Dorsey, University of New Hampshire

Lunch (11:45-1:15 pm)

Keynote Address: "'The Jabberwocky Peace': US Disengagement From Vietnam"
Larry Berman, Director, University of California Washington Center and Professor of Political Science, University of California, Davis

Panel III: America's Cold War at Home and Abroad (1:15-3:00 pm)

Chair: John Moore, Cal Poly Pomona

"The Cold War As a 'Total Symbolic War', and the Way It was Fought: American Psychological Warfare Plans in Italy During the 1950s"
     Mario Del Pero, University of Bologna, Italy
          Discussant: Walter Hixson, University of Akron

"'This is War, Gentlemen, Economic and Political War': Rethinking American Business and the Origins of the Cold War"
     John Soares, George Washington University
          Discussant: Jeff Livingston, California State University, Chico

"A Pastor in the Pulpit: Ronald Reagan, SDI, and the End of the 'Evil Empire'"
     Jon Thorpe, University of Southern California
          Discussant: Chester Pach, Ohio University