How Eastern and Western Europe Did Meet in International Organizations (1945-1973)? A Post-Cold War Perspective

Veranstalter:

Re:work der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Université de Genève
mit dem Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam (ZZF)

This workshop aims at gathering scholars to test new perspectives on cold war and post-cold war Europe highlighting the circulations and convergences between the “two Europes”. In this regard the international organizations – in particular the ILO, the UNESCO, the UN Economic commission for Europe – will be used as living laboratories. In the standard historiography, the IOs have been mainly studied as political showplaces and confrontation arenas during the cold war period. During this workshop we will consider them as social spaces where a common knowledge expertise and know-how has been elaborated and exchanged between the two parts of Europe. Furthermore we also wish to reverse the usual perspective to look at the post-1945 Europe mainly from an Eastern European point of view.

Programm (PDF)