Sunday, January 5, 8:30–10:30 a.m.

American Historical Association Annual Meeting Sessions

142. Local Conflicts, Global Rivalry: Central Europeans in the Cold War

Palmer House, Private Dining Room 4

Joint session with the Conference Group for Central European History

Chair: Christian Ostermann, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Papers: Finding Blockaded Berlin: Translating Local Crisis into a Global Icon
Paul Steege, Villanova University

Cold War Idealism in West German Discourse: From Central Europe to the Central African Republic
William Glenn Gray, Texas Tech University

"No Work, More Play": Lifestyle, Work Ethic, and Ideology in Post-Prague Spring Czechoslovakia
Paulina Bren, New York University

Comment: Catherine Epstein, Amherst College

   

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