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Programme at a glance
All registered participants will receive a Zoom link to the conference two days before the conference starts.
Wednesday 5 May 2021
10:15-11:00 | Keynote: Dr. Matthew Grant, University of Essex (GB): The Cold War and the remaking of British Citizenship (confirmed) |
11:00-11:30 | Coffee break |
11:30-14:30 | Paper session I: Nuclear power and the remaking of citizenship and civil society after 1945 (Interrupted by lunch) |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch break |
14:45-15:45 | Virtual guided tour of REGAN VEST |
Thursday 6 May 2021
09:30-10:15 | Keynote: Marie Cronqvist, Lund University (Sweden): Cold War and warm welfare: The contribution of cultural history to the study of civil defence in Scandinavia |
10:15-10:45 | Coffee break |
10:45-14:30 | Paper session II: Shelters as Cold War (cultural) history |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch break |
14:30-15:00 | Coffee break |
15:00-15:15 | Informal virtual gathering |
Friday 7 May 2021
10:00-10:45 | Keynote: Heike Hollunder, Museumsleiterin, Dokumentationsstätte Regierungsbunker, Bonn: Exhibiting and narrating Cold War civil history (confirmed) |
10:45-11:15 | Coffee break |
11:15- 12:15 | Paper session III: Exhibiting and narrating Cold War civil history |
12:15-13:15 | Lunch break |
13:15-14:45 | Paper session IV: Nuclear Cold War technology |
14:45-15:00 | Closing of the conference |