Presentations by Streams

Our panel aims to contribute to a better understanding of the role of culture in the context of the Cold War (as part of Cultural Cold War studies), its political role in democratic and non-democratic configurations, and the potential of the cultural exchanges to foster cultural change and transform political culture. Its goal is to also contribute to the development of a new perspective regarding cultural collaborations within the State-Socialist World, and beyond it, throughout the 1950s-1980s; that is a perspective which is less biased by the concept of the “Socialist bloc” as a monolithic political construct or by the traditional, uncritical approaches on the relationship between the East and the West, the East and the South, etc.
Participants: Irina Nastasa-Matei; Caterina Preda; Irina Carabas; Alina Popescu; Alexey Kotelvas