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2025 Cold War Speaker Series: Cold War Workers
We invite you to join us this fall for the Diefenbunker’s Cold War Speaker Series! In this series of free events, hear from experts on a variety of topics to bring you new perspectives on Cold War themes and events.
Event 1
Topic: Cold War Workers: Labour, Family, and Community in a Nuclear State
Speaker: Dr. Isabel Campbell
Date: Thursday, September 18, 2025
Time: 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. ET
Location: Virtual
Cost: Free
Event Details:
- Hosted virtually on Zoom. Advance registration is required to receive the Zoom link.
- Includes a presentation followed by a Q&A.
- Session will be recorded for educational purposes and made available after the event.
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Overview
This talk presents stories and themes from the book Cold War Workers, edited by Dr. Isabel Campbell. Cold War Workers raises questions about the influence of settler-colonial masculine institutional values on those who laboured for the Cold War state and society. By comparing the experiences of different types of workers, families, and communities, this volume reveals how race, gender, and privilege affected people in varied and sometimes unexpected ways.
About the speaker
Dr. Isabel Campbell
Dr. Isabel Campbell is a senior historian at the Department of National Defence, an adjunct research professor in the history department at Carleton University, and a senior fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for International History at the University of Toronto. She has published on Canada and the Cold War, alliance strategy, gender and service families, and the intersections between foreign policy and military history, as well as on the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Canadian Army, and the Royal Canadian Navy, and archival matters.
Receive 25% off the book Cold War Workers from McGill-Queen’s University Press.
