Activity Type:
Lecture
Presenter:
Diana Georgescu, University College London
Date:
Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - 12:00
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
4130 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Contact Phone:
412-648-7407
Contact Email:
crees@pitt.edu
The talk examines the widespread practice of youth exchanges during the late Cold War through two seemingly peripheral actors: the Romanian Pioneers, the children’s organization of the Romanian Communist Party, and one of its most active partners in the west, the International Falcons Movement, a leftwing youth organization with national branches in Germany, Austria, the United Kingdom, and France. Following Romanian and foreign teens who traveled as cultural ambassadors to youth camps organized in the Soviet bloc and Western Europe, the talk examines competing visions and practices of socialist internationalism in order to illuminate the role of “soft power” during the Cold War.
UCIS Unit:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
European Studies Center
Global Studies Center
Other Pitt Sponsors:
Children’s Literature Program
Cultural Studies Program
World Regions:
Europe and Russia