Cold Culture: A symposium on New Approaches to Cold War Research, Education and Expression.
Date: November 7-9, 2008
Location: Diefenbunker, Canada’s Cold War Museum, 3911 Carp Road, Carp, Ontario, K0A 1L0
Phone: 613-839-0007
Website: www.diefenbunker.ca
Email address: administration@diefenbunker.ca
Sponsored by the Canadian War Museum and the Brookstreet Hotel
This event is being organized to bring together a broad range of professional scholars, artists, filmmaker, teachers, museum professionals and journalists who are involved in the exploration of themes in Cold War history, and who shape how the conflict is understood today.
This conference, held at one of Canada’s most distinctive Cold War sites, will be a forum for these diverse voices to reflect on and share their approach to the Cold War in different media.
Scroll down for symposium agenda and registration information.
Registration information:
Registration Fee (includes Friday evening reception/ registration, 2 day conference with breakfast and lunch, tour of the Diefenbunker, reception/ tour at the Canadian War Museum and Diefenbunker’s Cold War Memorial reception): $100.00 per person, $75.00 per student (with valid ID card). One-day fee: $50 per person, $35 per student.
Conference Hotel:
Brookstreet Hotel
525 Legget Drive
Ottawa, ON, ON K2K 2W2
(613) 271-1800
Symposium hotel room rates are $139 per guestroom per night with complimentary indoor parking for delegates. Please indicate that you are attending the Diefenbunker symposium when you book your hotel. There will be a shuttle from the hotel to the museum that will leave at 8:00 am and 4:30 pm on Saturday, November 8th and Sunday, November 9th.
Tentative Schedule
Friday, November 7, 2008
6:30- 9:00 pm: Symposium Registration/ Opening Reception for two new exhibitions Diefenbunker, Secrecy for Survival and Canada and the Cold War
Saturday, November 8, 2008
8:30- 10:30 am: Continental Breakfast
9:00- 9:30 am: Opening Remarks
9:30- 10:30 am: Keynote Address: New Approaches to Cold War Research
-Dr. Christian Ostermann, Director, Cold War History International Project, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, USA
15 min. break
Section 1: Public Response to the Cold War
10:45- 11:15 am:
Can’t you read, man? Run for your Life!: Civil Defence, Fallout Shelters, and the Public during the Berlin Crisis, 1958-61
-Andrew Burtch, Historian Post-1945, Canadian War Museum
11:15-11:45 am:
Gambling on the Brink: Canada, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Global Cold War
-Caralee Daigle, PhD candidate, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
11:45am- 12:00 pm: Discussion
12:00- 1:45 pm: Lunch/ museum tour
Section 2: Education and the Cold War
1:45- 2:15 pm: Father, Mother, Policeman, Teacher, and Doctor Know Best: Postwar Prescriptive Classroom Films and Their Pedagogical Potential in Undergraduate History Courses
-Dr. Jessamyn Neuhaus, Assistant Professor, History Department, State University of New York, Plattsburgh, USA
2:15- 2:45 pm: The Kids Are Alright?: Teaching Canada’s Role in the Cold War…
-Dr. Kevin Brushett, Professor, History Department, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
15 min. Break
3:00- 3:30 pm: Useful Citizenship: The Cold War and the Ontario Education System, 1950-67
-Andrew Denstedt, PhD Candidate, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
3:30-4:15 pm: Discussion
4:30pm: Hotel shuttle
Evening Event
6:30pm
VIP Tour of the Canadian War Museum, reception
Sunday, November 9th, 2008
8:30-10:30 am: Continental Breakfast
Section 3: Cold Culture (Sports, Media and Literature)
9:00 - 9:15: Announcements
9:15- 9:45 am: ‘Bloody War and a ‘Beautiful, Peaceful Army of Athletes’: Confrontation and Cooperation in Cold War International Ice Hockey
-John A. Soares, Jr. University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA)
9:45- 10:15 am: The BBC, Communism and the Cold War
-Dr Gordon Johnston, School of Cultural Studies
Leeds Metropolitan University, U.K
15 min. Break
10:30- 11:00 am: How the Cold War shaped the post-WWII development of English-Canadian literature
-Paul Hjartarson, Professor English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
11:00- 11:30 am: Aural History: the BBC External Services, international broadcasting and the Cold War Challenge
- Alban Webb, Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Sociology, Open University, UK
11:30 am- 12:00pm: Discussion
12:00- 1:00 pm: Lunch/screening of Diefenbunker documentary/museum tour
Section 4: Museums and the Cold War
1:00- 1:30pm: Interpreting the Cold War- a Museum’s Perspective
-Alexandra Badzak, Executive Director, Diefenbunker, Canada’s Cold War Museum, Ottawa, Canada
1:30- 2:00pm: "Missiles in the Backyard, Bomb Shelters in the Basement: Interpreting the Role of Nuclear Weapons in the Cold War—a Museum's Perspective."
-Yvonne Morris, Executive Director, Titan Missile Museum, Sahuarita, USA
2:00- 2:30 pm: Top Secret! The JS bunker at Kemmel: presenting Belgium's Cold War
- Jan Van der Fraenen, Attaché, Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History [Kemmel Bunker], Brussels, Belguim
15 min. Break
2:45- 3:15 pm: The Battle for a Cold War Museum
-Frances Gary Powers Jr., Director, National Cold War Museum, USA
3:15- 3:45 pm: Discussion
4:00- 4:30 pm: Cold War Memorial Ceremony and final remarks
dainties and coffee
4:30 pm: Hotel Shuttle
5:00 pm: First Meeting of Cold War Museums (invitation required)
Dinner at The Swan at Carp restaurant
Poster and Schedule downloads:
[ Download/View Symposium_schedule_f2_.pdf ]