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CWRG members presented at a workshop in Vienna

April 24, 2023 Notices

Ondřej Vojtěchovský and Jakub Mazanec took part in the international workshop Comodities, Trade and Materiality in the Global Cold War, organized by the University of Vienna (Research Center for the History of Transformations) within the CENTRAL program on April 19-20. Ondřej Vojtěchovský presented his paper “Where we can’t execute the plan, the Yugoslavs will help.” […]

Lecture by Prof. Lorenz Lüthi

April 5, 2023 Notices

On April 3, CWRG in cooperation with the Centre for Strategic Regions – CSR organized a lecture by Prof. Lorenz Lüthi: “Berlin and Poland, 1945-1990: unexpected connections.” Lorenz Lüthi is Professor of History in International Relations at McGill University. His research focuses on the large and cross-continental developments of the Cold War. He published The […]

Penny von Eschen presented her new book in Prague

March 15, 2023 Notices

Penny von Eschen presented her new book “Paradoxes of Nostalgia. Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989”. The professor of history and American studies at the University of Virginia is the author of the award-winning book “Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War” (2004), which is already one of the […]

Research presentation by Dr. Katja Castryck-Naumann

November 8, 2022 Notices

On 23 November, Dr Katja Castryck-Naumann (GWZO Leipzig) will present her research on “Expertise and International Politics. Polish Economists in the UN Secretariat (1946 to the 1960s)”. The commentary will be delivered by Dr Jan Surman (Masaryk Institute). The seminar will take place in room 001 (Faculty of Arts, Nám. Jana Palacha 1/2, Prague) at […]

“Voyage au pays de Lénine Notes de voyage d’un écrivain africain en URSS” with an introduction and annotation by Constantin Katsakioris

July 12, 2022 Notices Publications

A book by Benin poet Richard Dogbeh (1932-2003) Voyage au pays de Lénine Notes de voyage d’un écrivain africain en URSS, with an introduction and foreword by CWRG member Konstantin Katsakioris, was published by the AVM. En septembre 1966, le poète dahoméen Richard Dogbeh effectue un voyage en Union soviétique suite à une invitation de […]

CWRG at the workshop in Leipzig

July 1, 2022 Notices

CWRG members Barbora Menclová, Jakob Marcks, Jakub Mazanec and CWRG associate Barbora Buzássyová presented their papers at the international workshop Between Trade and Aid. Theories, Practices, and Results of Attempts of Exporting State-Socialist Development Models for the Third World in Leipzig. Read more here.

CWRG at the workshop in Vienna

June 29, 2022 Notices

CWRG members Constantin Katsakioris, Mikuláš Pešta, Jakub Mazanec and Jan Koura presented the results of their research at the international workshop “Socialist (Dis)Connections” organized by Thuc Linh Nguyen Vu and Jannis Panagiotidis from the University of Vienna. The workshop was part of the CENTRAL project, which brings together several Central European universities. Read more here.

Mikuláš Pešta at the conference of the University of Vienna

June 8, 2022 Notices

Mikuláš Pešta with his co-presenter Matthieu Gillabert (Unversity of Fribourg) presented their research at the conference “Divided Together. International Organizations and the Cold War” at the University of Vienna. They participated with a paper titled “International Union of Students: Strategies of Legitimization from Prague to the Global Cold War”. More information here.

An interview with Jan Koura in Forum magazine

February 10, 2022 Notices Publications

In Forum. Magazín Univerzity Karlovy was published an interview with Jan Koura in which he summarizes the results of his research on the cooperation of Moroccan opposition politician Mehdi Ben Barka with Czechoslovak intelligence service. The full text of the interview is available here.  

Reactions to Jan Koura’s article in Intelligence and National Security

January 8, 2022 Notices Publications

In November 2020, Jan Koura published an article in the influential journal Intelligence and National Security (INS) on the cooperation of Moroccan opposition politician Mehdi Ben Barka with Czechoslovak intelligence in the context of StB activities in the Third World during the Cold War.  Based on this text and an interview with Dr. Koura, an […]

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