The UC Santa Barbara Center for Cold War Studies (CCWS) and the George Washington University Cold War Group (GWCW) announce a graduate student conference on the Cold War, to be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, on May 2-4, 2003. The programs have held separate spring conferences for the past several years; this one will inaugurate a new, jointly sponsored conference to be held at each campus in alternating years. The conference is an excellent opportunity for graduate students to present papers and receive critical feedback from peers and experts in the field. Each paper will have a faculty discussant, and there will be a keynote address by a distinguished scholar in the field.

We encourage submissions by graduate students working on any aspect of the Cold War. Proposals should be emailed, along with a brief CV, to conference coordinator John Sbardellati by December 31, 2002. The conference chair is Professor Fred Logevall of UCSB.

We also seek faculty members to serve as chairs and discussants. Those interested in serving in this capacity should contact John Sbardellati.

For more information on the CCWS and the GWCW, see the respective websites listed below.