"Children’s Cold War": The images of childhood in the Soviet-American confrontation
Second Call for papers
Workshop
“CHILDREN’S COLD WAR”:
THE IMAGES OF CHILDHOOD IN THE SOVIET-AMERICAN CONFRONTATION
November 26-27, 2019
Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg
Organized by:
- research project “The Cinematic Images of Soviet and American Enemies in the Cold War Symbolic Politics: Comparative Analysis” (The Russian Science Foundation, grant No 18-18-00233);
- research project “The Symbol of Childhood in Political Mobilization in Contemporary Russia” (The Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Expert Institute for Social Research, grant 19-011-31711);
- journal “Children’s Readings”
- the Research Center for Children’s Literature at the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House)
The questions to be discussed:
- The symbol of childhood: Methodological approaches, content, functions, history, and the use in politics;
- The images of childhood in the USSR and U.S. Cold War cultures;
- The images of childhood in the USSR and U.S. Cold War cinema;
- Children as a target of Cold War propaganda;
- The Soviet-American confrontation in the USSR and U.S. children’s films;
- The Soviet-American confrontation in the USSR and U.S. children’s literature.
Roundtable “The symbol of childhood in contemporary Russian politics” will take place as a part of the Workshop
The working language of the conference is Russian but presentations in English are also welcome. There is no conference fee. Please note that travel and accommodation funds cannot be provided.
Please send the proposals no later than October 15, 2019 (if you need a visa of Russian Federation – no later than October 8, 2019). The notification of acceptance will be sent to the corresponding author by October 17, 2019.
The workshop’s papers will be published in a special issue of a peer-review journal indexed in Russian Science Citation Index.
Workshop
‘CHILDREN’S COLD WAR’:
THE IMAGES OF CHILDHOOD IN THE SOVIET-AMERICAN CONFRONTATION
Saint Petersburg, November 26-27, 2019
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On behalf of Organizing committee:
Prof. Dr. Oleg Riabov,
Leading researcher at Department of Political Sciences,
Saint Petersburg State University
E-mail: riabov1@inbox.ru, o.ryabov@spbu.ru