Schedule of Events 2011-2012

Sept. 22
"RONALD REAGAN IN IRELAND, 1984: A DIFFERENT COLD WAR?"
Van Gosse (Franklin and Marshall College)

Oct. 27
"JUSTIFYING THE POLICE STATE: PROSECUTING NAZIS AND LEGITIMATING INFORMERS IN SOVIET-OCCUPIED GERMANY"
Devin Pendas (Boston College)

Nov. 16
"FACING LEONID BREZHNEV AND EACH OTHER DURING THE HIGH ERA OF DETENTE: NIXON, BRANDT, AND MEIR, 1969-1974"
Carole Fink (The Ohio State University)
Special day and place: Wednesday in the Heyman Center common room

Dec. 8
"HENRY KISSINGER, AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL AND COLD WARRIOR"
Mario Del Pero (University of Bologna)

Jan. 26
"THE PIVOT OF THE WORLD: U.S. POWER AND THE PACIFIC IN THE 1940S"
Daniel Immerwahr (Northwestern University)

Feb. 9
"'VICTOR'S JUSTICE' AS 'JEWISH REVENGE': THE MALMEDY MASSACRE TRIAL AND ITS AFTERMATH"
Stephen Remy (Brooklyn College)

Mar. 1
"POLITICS OF SURVIVAL: NORTH KOREA AND THE 'COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM'"
Charles Armstrong (Columbia University)

Apr. 5
"ACADEMIC INTELLECT AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE: THE CASE OF HISTORIANS IN PUBLIC"
Thomas Bender (New York University)