Participation at conferences.

Severyan Dyakonov Updated on April 23, 2024 Participation at conferences, workshops, and talks. Over forty events since Fall 2018. Note: * - by invitation Presentations during my postdoctoral program. Academic year 2023-2024: August 7-10, 2024 - I will present a paper "Soviet Red Cross Female Doctors’ Work in Asia and Africa during the Cold War” at the International Federation of Women's History Research annual conference, Tsuda University in Tokyo, Japan. * June 11-12, 2024 - I will present a paper "The International Red Cross Film Festival in Bulgaria, 1965-1991" at the "Socialist Humanitarianism in the Long Twentieth Century" conference, University of Manchester, UK. June 5-6, 2024 - Me and my colleague Burak Sayim, we have organized a two days history research workshop "Cold War Internationalisms of/in the Decolonizing World" for seventeen participants at the Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland. Here is our call for papers. We will have the director of Cold War Studies Project Mark Kramer (Harvard University) as our keynote speaker, as well as sixteen professors, postdocs, and PhD researchers as participants. The workshop enjoys financial and administrative support from the Pierre Du Bois Foundation. The Global Sixties Journal will publish selected papers from the workshop in its special issue. * May 23-36, 2024 - I will participate at the Wilson Center CARE International Research Group Colloquium in Salzburg, Austria. This meeting is part of Wilson Center project that I am part of as a global fellow since 2022. * April 6, 2024 – I participated in a rountable “Soviet Developmentalist Internationalism in the Third World: Between Theory and Practice.” BASEES annual convention, University of Cambridge, the UK. March 11, 2024 - I gave a talk at Jordan Center on my ongoing project on the history of the Soviet Red Cross, New York University, NY. Jordan Center uploaded a video recording of the talk on its youtube channel. *January 18, 2024 – I presented a paper “The International Red Cross Film Festival, 19651991” at the “International Conference on the Red Cross and Communism” at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. December 1, 2023 – I organized a panel and will present a paper “The International Red Cross Film Festival, 1965-1991” ASEEES annual convention, Philadelphia, PA. 1 Severyan Dyakonov Updated on April 23, 2024 * November 22, 2023 – I prticipated at a Roundtable “Cold War Changing Discourses and Practices of Peace,” conference “Peace Unconditional. Politics, Histories, Memories, Furure” at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Video here (from 24:00). *October 10, 2023 – I presented a paper “Soviet Red Cross during the Cold War,” workshop “Health and Socialism: of Shortages and Solidarity” held at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. *September 12, 2023 – I presented my paper “Socialist Humanitarianism: The Soviet Red Cross in India in the 1960s,” conference “Solidarity and Voluntarism in State-Socialist Societies” held at the University of Graz, Austria. Academic year 2022-2023: *June 15, 2023 – I presented my paper “Hisotry of the Soviet Red Cross in the International League of Red Cross during the Cold War,” conference “The League of the Red Cross: Historical Prespectives, 1919-1991” held at the Federation of the Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland. *June 7, 2023 – I participated at a roundtable on the Hisotry of the CARE International, an event organized by Wilson Center at Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. May 10, 2023 – Presneted my postdoctoral research project “History of the Soviet Red Cross” at the International History Research seminar LSE HY509, London School of Economics, London, UK. * May 4, 2023 – Presented my book project “Public Diplomacy in India” at Carnegie India Institute’s History Seminar, Delhi, India. *April 1, 2023 – Presented my project on the history of the Soviet Red Cross in the International Red Cross Movement at the roundtable “Soviet Red Cross,” at the annual conference of the British Association of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies BASEES, University of Glasgow, UK. March 1, 2023 – Presented my postdoctoral research project Soviet Red Cross in the International Red Cross Movement, the 1950s – 1980s at the Davis Center Visting Scholars Seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. February 9, 2023 – Presented my book proposal Soviet Public Diplomacy in India, 1959-1965 at the “Kruzhok” semianr at the Department of History, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. November 13, 2022 – Organized a panel “The USSR in the World” and presented my postdoc project “Cold War in Neutral Spaces of International Organizations: The Soviet Red Cross and Red Crescent Society and the International Federation of the Red Cross in the 1950s-1980s” at the annual Association of Slavonic and East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Chicago, IL. Presentations during my PhD program. Academic year 2021-2022: 2 Severyan Dyakonov Updated on April 23, 2024 June 29, 2022 – Presented a paper “Making Socialist Ideals Global: The Soviet Union and Environmental Protection since the 1960s,” annual conference Journées Suisse d’Histoire, University of Geneva, Switzerland. April 8-10, 2022 – Presented a paper “Cold War in Neutral Spaces of International Organizations: The Soviet Red Cross and Red Crescent Society and the International Federation of the Red Cross in 1950-1991” at the annual conference of the British Association of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies BASEES, University of Cambridge, UK. December, 2021 – Organized a panel on Soviet Internationalism and presented a peper “Soviet and American Evaluation of Each Others’ Public Diplomacy Programs in India in the 1950s/60s,” the Association of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies ASEEES Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA. September 1-3, 2021 – Presented my PhD thesis outline “Soviet Public Diplomacy in India, 1950-1960s,” at the European Summer School on the Cold War, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. Academic year 2020-2021: August 5, 2021 – I organized a panel on Moscow’s Transnational Influence during the Cold War and presented a paper “Moscow’s Policies of Shaping Indian Politics: Soviet Public Diplomacy Agencies in India in the 1960s,” at the 10th World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies ICCEES, Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. June 16, 2021 – I organized a panel, Beyond Traditional Cold War Understanding: Economic and Cultural Elements in East-West Interactions, and presented a paper “Soviet Public Diplomacy Campaign of Influencing Indian Politics in the 1960s,” at the "Layers and Connections of the Political" International Conference of the Association for Political History, Luiss-Guido Carly University, Rome, Italy. June 10, 2021 – Presented a paper “Cold War in the 1960s’ India: Soviet Female Personnel at Indian Universities and Soviet Red Cross and Red Crescent in Delhi,” conference La Storia di Genere, University of Verona, Italy. February 4-5, 2021 – Presented a paper “Soviet Internationalism: USSR’s Public Diplomacy in India during the Cold War, 1950s-1970s,” conference “L’Empire russe, l’URSS et le monde post-soviétique au contact d’autres aires culturelles. Enjeux méthodologiques et épistémologiques,” University of Grenoble, France. November 19, 2020 – Presented a paper “Diplomatie publique soviétique en Inde, 1950-1960s” the annual Western Switzerland Conference Historiales, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. November 4-8, 2020 – I organized a panel on Soviet Public Diplomacy to present a paper “Soviet Influence in Indian Politics: Making Indo-Soviet Friendship Societies in the 19501960s,” the ASEEES annual convention, Washington, DC. 3 Severyan Dyakonov Updated on April 23, 2024 * March 6, 2020 – Presented a paper “Soviet films in Indian cinemas, in the 1950s-1960s,” conference “Soviet Cinema in Transnational Perspective,” University of Oxford, UK. February 20-21, 2020 – Presented a paper “Moscow’s Strategy of Promoting State Capitalism as Development Model in the Cold War,” roundtable “Analyse de discours et d’images dans une perspective postcoloniale,” University of Geneva, Switzerland. * January 22-23, 2020 – Presented a paper “Soviet films’ Competition with Hollywood in Indian Cinemas in the 1950s–1960s,” conference The United States and South Asia from the Age of Empire to Decolonization, ZTH Zurich, Switzerland. January 18, 2020 – Presented a paper “Eastern Bloc Cooperation with India during the Cold War,” roundtable “COMECON Economic Cooperation during the Cold War” at the Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg, Russia. November 23-26, 2019 – Presented a paper “The Cold War in India: Soviet teachers of the Russian language in Indian universities in the 1960s” at the 2019 Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) 51th Annual Convention, San Francisco, California. November 14-15, 2019 – presented a paper “Making Soviet Films Seen in Indian Cinemas in the 1950s-1960s,” at conference Culture and East-West International Relations conference, University of Perugia, Italy. * October 22-24, 2019 – presented a paper “USSR and the East During the Cold War: Soviet Film Export in India in the 1950–1960s,” conference The “Cultural Cold War” Towards a Theorisation of its Afro-Asian Contexts, University of Munich, Germany. Academic year 2018-2019: June 14-16, 2019 – Presented a paper Soviet Development Theory for the Third World: the Indian case at the 2019 Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Summer Convention, hosted by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb in Zagreb, Croatia. June 1-3, 2019 – Paper Soviet Public Diplomacy: The State Committee for Cultural Ties with Foreign Countries (GKKS) and its activities in India in the 1960s presented at the 2019 Canadian Association of Slavists (CAS) at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. April 12-14, 2019 – Paper Teaching the Russian language in India during the Cold War presented at the 2019 British Association of Slavic and East European Studies (BASEES) Annual Convention at the Robinson College, University of Cambridge, UK. November 29-December 1, 2018 – Paper The USSR and the East during the Cold War: Soviet Film Export in India in the 1950-1960s presented at the “International Forum for Young Scholars of Soviet and Post-Soviet History and Culture” at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. 4