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Thursday, October 4

Innocent Weapons: Soviet and American Children in the Cold War
A Live Interview with Margaret Peacock, University of Alabama
Time:
12:00 pm
Presenter:
Sean Guillory and Margaret Peacock
Location:
4130 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies and Global Studies Center along with Children’s Literature Program and Cultural Studies Program
Contact Phone:
412-648-7407
Contact Email:
crees@pitt.edu

In the 1950s and 1960s, images of children appeared everywhere, from movies to milk cartons, their smiling faces used to sell everything, including war. Soviet and American leaders too used emotionally charged images of children to create popular support for their policies at home and abroad. This live interview with Margaret Peacock will discuss her work on the deep symmetry in how Soviet and American propagandists mobilized similar images of children to similar ends, despite their differences.