Copenhagen Cold War Conference 2007

Call for Papers

European and Transatlantic Strategies in the Late Cold War Period
(c. 1965-1985) to Overcome the East-West Division of Europe

PhD students and post-doctoral researchers are eligible to apply for participation in the Copenhagen Cold War Conference 2007. Interdisciplinary research is promoted, and all researchers interested in exploring the historical perspective, regardless of discipline, are thus encouraged to apply.
The working language of the conference is English. Interested researchers should submit a conference paper proposal in English within one of the following five planned main themes of the conference:

1) The development of and reactions to the West German Ostpolitik in the late 1960s;
2) The negotiating process in Western Europe as well as the bilateral contacts between East and West European countries leading to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe;
3) The initial phases of the European Policy Cooperation in the 1970s, seen in the light of the East-West détente process;
4) The implementation and impact in East and West Europe of the Helsinki agreements during the 1970s and early 1980s;
5) The impact on both sides of the East-West divide in Europe of the so-called ‘Second Cold War’ on the détente process during the early 1980s, including the roles of opposition and dissident movements in Eastern Europe and the role of independent anti-nuclear weapons movements in Western Europe (and the United States).

The conference paper proposals should consist of the following three parts:
1) An abstract of the prospective conference paper (max. 500 words).
2) A brief abstract of the thesis or the main research project in progress (max. 200 words).
3) A personal presentation (CV) (max. 200 words).

Only proposals that include all three parts will be considered. Proposals should be submitted by email (in one single Word or PDF file) by the deadline of May 15, 2007, to the conference secretary, Mr. Jens Runge.