Cold War Public Diplomacy: Cultural Battles 1219 School of International and Public Affairs

10am-4pm 10-10:45am: Keynote Address: Csaba Békés

10:45-11:45: Satellites, Genie Bottles, and Superheroes: America’s Cold Warriors Commentator: Edward Tyerman Allison Emmet, “I Dream of Jeannie: The Cold War, Television, and Gender Diplomacy” Elizabeth Charchenko, “”Cue The Buffalo!” The History of Operation Telstar, The United States First Live Television Broadcast Across the Atlantic and Fred Friendly’s Vision to Sell America to Europe” Alexandra Peebles, “Illustrating the Cold War”

11:30-11:45am: Break 12noon-1pm: High Art or Simply the Good Life: Having it All in America Commentator: Victoria Phillips Silia Polyzogopoulou, “Exporting the American Lifestyle: Roman Holiday” Sofie Hansen, “Modern Dance as a Cold War Tool for the American State Department” Gillian Jakab, “Performing Koans: Merce Cunningham’s threat to Humanism and the American Modernist Project in the Cold War, 1950s-60s”

1-2pm Lunch and Guest Lecture: Sergei Zhuk “‘Disco Mafia’, ‘Komsomol Capitalism’ and Collapse of Communism.”

2-3pm: Listening to the Soviet Bloc: Jazz, Radio, and the Politics of an Encore Commentator: Thai Jones Jeffrey Golden, “Eddie Rosner’s Disguised Soviet Jazz” Alex Wu, “A Chorus of Voices: Yugoslavia, 1962” Jordan Lee, “Encore, Encore: Barber’s ‘Adagio for Strings’ in the USSR”

3:00-3:15pm Break 3:15-4:15pm: Writing to the Cold War Communist Commentator: Elizabeth Leake Giancarlo Milea, “Carissimi:” Victor Anfuso and the ‘Letters to Italy’ Campaign, 1946-1947″ Blake Mueller, “American Identity Internationalized: International House in New York” Tinatin Japaridze, “Kremlin, You’ve Got Mail!: The Case of Samantha Smith”

4:15pm Closing Remarks