The participants of the workshop consider the Cold War as a multilateral conflict that created specific global connections'. We seek to realign the interdisciplinary analysis of its 'glocal' interdependencies. We will do this by raising essentially new questions on the social, economic, cultural, and political dimensions of the as yet barely researched Sino-Soviet rivalry for the African continent. First, our aim is to initiate the necessary international collaboration between scholars working in the hitherto poorly networked fields of African, Chinese and Soviet history. These speakers will explore topics at the intersection of different sets of expertise, applying a transnational and multi-perspective approach. Second, these transnational historical approaches will be supplemented and enriched by scholars from political science, linguistics, literary studies and economics. The analysis of historical phenomena will thus be embedded in an interdisciplinary discussion to shed new light on the multilateral interdependencies on the basis of three broader fields, such as (1) economic aid and development, (2) the export of educational models, the educational migration to the USSR and China and back, foreign language policies, as well as (3) the imagination and emotionalization of the 'Other'.
Information on participating / attending:
To attend the workshop please contact Trixi Valentin at the Conference Office:
Tel: +49 521 106-2769
E-Mail: trixi.valentin@uni-bielefeld.de
Date:
05/17/2021 13:00 - 05/18/2021 18:00
Event venue:
Video Conference
Center for Interdisciplinary Research
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung
Universität Bielefeld
33615 Bielefeld
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Cultural sciences, Economics / business administration, History / archaeology, Politics, Social studies
Types of events:
Seminar / workshop / discussion
Entry:
04/15/2021
Sender/author:
Dr. Manuela Lenzen
Department:
Medien und News
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event68469
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