Socialism and the Cold War in Western Europe Sponsored by Queen’s University Belfast, the Society for the Study of Labour History (SSLH) and Liverpool University Press Friday 17 and Saturday 18 April 2015 Senate Room, Queen’s University Belfast Programme Friday 17 April 14.00: registration and welcome from Dr Paul Corthorn (Queen’s) 14.15-15.45: panel one: Varieties of Anti-Socialism Chair: Professor Keith Laybourn (Huddersfield and President of the SSLH) Dr Matthew Grant (Essex), 'Anti-Communism and the Good Citizen in early Cold War Britain' Dr Linda Risso (Reading), 'NATO's Anti-Communist Crusade' Dr Robert Mason (Edinburgh). '"That road to British ruin": American conservatives and West European socialism, 1945-c. 1960' 15.45-16.00: tea and coffee 16.00-17.30: panel two: Human Rights and Détente Chair: Dr Stephen Goss (Queen’s) Professor Tom Buchanan (Oxford), 'Human Rights and the Cold War' Dr Michele Di Donato (Sciences Po, Paris), 'The Italian Communist Party and Social Democracy: a story of European Détente?' Dr Martin D. Brown (Richmond), 'Pro-détente versus anti-détente camps: British public opinion, foreign policy and the CSCE, 19691975' 1 Socialism and the Cold War in Western Europe 17.45-18.45: plenary lecture, introduced by Professor Peter Gray (Head of School of History and Anthropology, Queen’s) Dr Frédéric Heurtebize (Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense) 'The United States and Eurocommunism in the 1970s' 18.45-19.45: drinks reception, School of History and Anthropology Common Room, 13 University Square 19.45: conference dinner at Deanes at Queen’s, followed by: Dr Gill Bennett (former Chief Historian of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) on 'From Soviet Ally to Soviet Adversary: the Attlee government and the Cold War', introduced by Professor Keith Jeffery (Queen’s) Saturday 18 April 09.30-11.00: panel three: The early Cold War Chair: Dr Charlotte Alston (Northumbria) Dr Tony Insall (King's London), 'The Foreign Office and the Labour Party: IRD and the growth of European socialist cooperation 19451951' Massimiliano Nastri, (Queen’s), ‘The Choice for Stalinism: the Communist Parties of Italy, Yugoslavia and Trieste, 1945 – 1948 – 1951’ Dr Stephen Goss (Queen’s), 'The Left in Northern Ireland and the Cold War' 11.00-11.15: tea and coffee 11.15-12.45: panel four: The wider Cold War Chair: Professor Sean O’Connell (Queen’s) Dr Peter Gurney (Essex), 'The Co-op and the Cold War' Professor Glen O'Hara (Oxford Brookes), 'British views of the Soviet economies' Dr Dianne Kirby (Ulster), 'The impact of the religious Cold War on socialist clerics in Western Europe' 2 Socialism and the Cold War in Western Europe 12.45-13.45: lunch (Senate Room) and SSLH Executive Committee meeting (room G02 in 17 University Square) 13.45-15.15: panel five: The West European Left Chair: Dr Daniel Laqua (Northumbria) Professor Martin Conway (Oxford), '"Socialism the goal, Democracy the Means": West European Socialist Attitudes towards Democracy, 1945-65' Dr Daniel Gordon (Edge Hill), 'Crossing Cold War Lines on the Streets of Paris: Jacques Chirac and Henri Krasucki's Secret Pigalle Negotiations in May 1968' Jan de Graaf (Portsmouth), ‘The Left from Zero Hour to the Cold War: Window of Opportunity?’ 15.15-15.30: tea and coffee 15.30-17.00: panel six: 1956 and its Long Aftermath Chair: Professor John Belchem (Liverpool and Chair of the SSLH) Professor Holger Nehring (Stirling), 'The Internationalism of the British New Left reconsidered' Dr Paul Corthorn (Queen’s), 'The British Labour Party and the Visit of Khrushchev and Bulganin to Britain in 1956' Dr Alex Titov (Queen's), 'The Central Committee of the CPSU and the European Communist Parties' 17.00: Informal drinks and dinner at an Indian restaurant 3