Europe and Latin America during the Cold War

Europe and Latin America during the Cold War
Berlin, September 2014
9.00-10.30: Cuba, the Soviet bloc & Cold War
Chair: Jim Hershberg (GWU)
James Mark (University of Exeter) and Balint Tolmar (Central European University,
Budapest): “Encountering Latin America in State Socialist Eastern Europe: The Case of Cuba
in Hungary 1950s-1989”
Carlos Alzugaray (University of Havana, Cuba): “The Cuban-Bulgarian relationship during
the Cold War: an example of the mutual benefits of two Soviet allies”
Albert Manke (University of Cologne, Germany): “Una nueva alianza estratégica en la
Guerra Fría: Cuba y Checoslovaquia”
11.00-12.30: Brazil, Europe & the Cold War
Chair: Tanya Harmer (LSE)
Jim Hershberg (GWU, USA): “Brazil, Cuba, and the Soviet bloc, 1961-62”
Iwa Nawrocki (Princeton, USA): “Cold War Catholic Transnationalism: Brazilian-Polish
Intellectual Exchanges, 1978-1989”
Carlo Patti (Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil): “Nuclear cooperation between West
Germany and Brazil”
14.30-16.00: The Soviet Bloc, Intelligence, Latin America & the Cold War
Chair: Anita Prazmowska (LSE)
Jadwiga Pieper (University of Arizona, USA): “La Federacion Democratica Internacional de
Mujeres (FDIM): Frente Sovietica o Organismo de Empoderamiento Politico de Mujeres en
la Guerra Fria?”
Michal Zourek (VŠTE, České Budějovice, Czech Republic): “Las actividades de los servicios
secretos de Checoslovaquia en los países del Cono Sur.”
Kaeten Mistry (UEA, UK): “American Exile: Philip Agee between Latin America and Europe
during the Cold War”
16.30-18.00: West Europe, Latin America and the Cold War
Chair: Tanya Harmer (LSE)
Raffaele Nocera (Università di Napoli “L'Orientale,” Italy): “Entre La Habana y Washington:
Italia durante la crisis de los mísiles”
Olga Ulianova (USACH-IDEA): “La Democracia Cristiana chilena y el mundo político
europeo 1973-1989”
Fernando Camacho (USACH-IDEA): “La proyección del partido socialdemócrata sueco
hacia Latinoamérica durante las decadas de los años sesenta y setenta”