CONFLICT AND COMMUNITY:
Transatlantic Relations in the Long Twentieth Century

News and Events

Current Issues:

  • October 25, 17-19: Transatlantic Security: From the Cold War to the 21st Century. Scandic Hotel Marski, Helsinki. This event will mark the launch of The Routledge Handbook of Transatlantic Security.
  • Publication of a special issue of the Journal of Transatlantic Studies, with papers from the international conference 'Conflict and Community: Transatlantic Relations during the Cold War', University of Tampere, 12-14 May 2008.
  • Visual impressions of Conflict and Community: an exhibit of Ollin Klubi posters.

    Past events:

  • May 7, 10-16, Pinni B2078: Liittyykö gradusi kylmään sotaan? Tutkielmaseminaari pro gradu -tutkielmien tekijöille, University of Tampere.
  • May 6, 4 pm, Pinni B3110: Ollin Klubi round-table discussion with Professor Aila Lauha. 'Research on Churches and the Cold War: Experiences and Challenges'.
  • Maailman politiikan arkipäivää: Obaman 1. vuosi, Haiti ja Ukraina. Interview with Jussi Hanhimäki on Barack Obama's first year of presidency. YLE, 20 January 2010.
  • March 25, 2 pm, Pinni B3110: Ollin Klubi guest lecture by Dr. Kristina Spohr-Readman on NATO's nuclear policy in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • April 8, 2 pm, Pinni B3110: Ollin Klubi guest lecture by Dr. Sari Autio-Sarasmo, Reassessing Cold War Europe - View from the 'Other' Side.
  • March 19, 10 am, Pinni B3110: Ollin Klubi guest lecture by Jonathan L'Hommedieu on the Baltic Question in US foreign policy.
  • February 18, 2 pm, Pinni B3110: Ollin Klubi guest lecture by Dr. Barbara Zanchetta on "The United States and Iran: How to Move On?"
  • January 21, 2010, Room B3110: Ollin Klubi lecture by FiDiPro Jussi Hanhimäki, on 'Obama and Transatlantic Relations: One Year on'.
  • Period I-II, 2009-2010: Guest lecture series on "Global transformations: current issues in North American, European, and International Politics", hosted by Finland Distinguished Professor Jussi Hanhimäki and North American Studies Professor Katri Sieberg.
    • September 24, 2009, 4-6 pm: Guest lecture by Raimo Väyrynen on "Current Economic Crisis and Transatlantic Relations".
    • October 29, 2009, 4-6 pm: Guest lecture by Jonathan Krasno on US Campaign Finance.
    • November 5, 2009, 4-6 pm: Guest lecture by Charly Salonius-Pasternak on current issues in American foreign policy.
    • November 12, 2009, 4-6 pm: Guest lecture by Matti Nojonen on Sino-US Strategic Dependency and Competition.
    • November 19, 2009, 4-6 pm: Guest lecture by Sixten Korkman on the Welfare State.
    • December 10, 2009, 4-6 pm: Guest lecture by Hanna Ojanen on "European Security and Defence Policy: what, how, and why?"
  • October 29-31, 2009: "Cold War Interactions Reconsidered." The 9th Aleksanteri Conference, Helsinki. With participation of FiDiPro project members.
  • October 12, 2009, 2-5 pm: "Historical approaches to enlargement - the case of German re-unification." Guest lecture by B. Schoenborn in the Jean Monnet Course on European Integration and Enlargement.
  • October 10. 2009, 10am-17pm: Liittyykö gradusi kylmään sotaan? Tutkielmaseminaari pro gradu -tutkielmien tekijöille, University of Helsinki.
  • June 8-9, 2009: Roundtable of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA), on Enhancing a Strategic US-EU Partnership". With J. Hanhimäki.
  • Lecture course by Benedikt Schoenborn on The European Unification Process since 1945. University of Tampere, Period IV.
  • May 5, 2009: Imperial Space and Soviet Russian Culture. Workshop in Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute (Meeting Room, 2nd floor). Iina Kohonen is giving a paper in the workshop.
  • April 23-24, 2009: "Transatlantic Security Issues from the Cold War to the 21st Century." International conference in Geneva, Switzerland, co-organized by Jussi Hanhimäki, with contributions by Jussi Hanhimäki, Benedikt Schoenborn and Barbara Zanchetta. Conference report.
  • March 19 (Thursday), 4 pm: Ollin Klubi guest lecture by Dr Katalin Miklossy (Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki) on "Trojan Horses or Smart Small Powers? Eastern European States and America".
  • February 26, 12 pm: France and European integration in the 1960s. Guest lecture by Benedikt Schoenborn at the University of Turku, Department of Contemporary History.
  • January 28, 4 pm: Ollin Klubi guest lecture by Dr. Marko Lehti on "The Struggle for the West: Divided Legacy?" .
  • January 27, 3 pm: Varala Seminar on "Methodological Starting Points in Historical Research and Expected Findings". Presentations by the FiDiPro research team (Tampere) and the Russia and Eastern Europe research team (Helsinki).
  • Intensive lecture course by Jussi Hanhimäki on Major Problems in American Foreign Policy 26.-30.1.2009 (M-F, 10-12). University of Tampere
  • Cosmic enthusiasm: The cultural impact of space exploration on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe since the 1950’s: International conference, January 22-24, 2009, Basel (Switzerland). Iina Kohonen is giving a paper in the conference.
  • Lecture course by Jussi Hanhimäki, Benedikt Schoenborn and Barbara Zanchetta, on "Transatlantic Relations since 1945". University of Tampere, Period II.
  • Professor Jussi Hanhimäki talks at a seminar on 'Obamas choices, perspectives on the future policies of the United States' (11 Dec 2008) organized by the Transatlantic Relations project and The Finnish Institute of International Affairs.
  • "Iina and the Cosmonauts": Aleksanteri News (5 Dec 2008) highlights Iina Kohonen's contribution to the international workshop "Narratives in Research, Narratives in the Field".
  • November 19, 4 pm: Ollin Klubi guest lecture by Dr. Petri Hakkarainen, on Transatlantic Clashes in the early 1970s.
  • November 5, 1 pm: Benedikt Schoenborn presents findings of his research at the Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI)
  • October 29, 4 pm: Tuomas Forsberg's Ollin Klubi guest lecture on "European Anti-Americanism"
  • October 9: Benedikt Schoenborn's guest lecture in the Jean Monnet Course on European Integration and Enlargement: "Historical approaches to enlargement - the case of German re-unification, 1990."
  • September 10: Pia Koivunen presents findings of her research on "Diverse Functions of the World Youth Festivals in the 1940s-1960s."
  • September 8: "France and West Germany in East-West relations: New Evidence on the 1960s." Guest lecture by Benedikt Schoenborn at the International History Seminar, University of Helsinki.