Cold Wars: Asia, Middle East and Europe, with Lorenz Lüthi (Dec. 9, 2020)

The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and BU Center for the Study of Asia are pleased to invite you to the next online event of the Decolonization@ 60 Series

Decolonization Book Talk #2

Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, 10:00- 11:30 AM EST

Cold Wars: Asia, Middle East, Europe
(Cambridge, 2020) 

·     With Author: Lorenz Lüthi (McGill University)

·     Discussants: Igor Lukes (Boston University),
Victor McFarland (University of Missouri), and
Jayita Sarkar (Boston University)

Register for Book Talk #2 here

About the Speakers:

Lorenz M. Lüthi is Associate Professor at McGill University, Montréal, and is a leading historian of the Cold War. His first book The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World (2008) won the 2008 Furniss Award and the 2010 Marshall Shulman Book Prize. His publications on the Vietnam war, Asian-African internationalism, and non-alignment have broken new ground in Cold War history. Link: https://www.mcgill.ca/history/lorenz-lüthi

DISCUSSANTS

Igor Lukes is Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University. Lukes writes primarily about Central Europe. His long list of publications deal with the interwar period, the Cold War, and contemporary developments in East Central Europe and Russia. In 2018 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna. He was the 2017 Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Initiate, and had Erasmus Mundus Grant in 2015 and a Fulbright Specialist Grant in 2014. He was a 2012 W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow and the Bitton National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. In 2004-05 he was a Fellow at The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His work has won the support of various other institutions, including Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, IREX, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.  In 1997 Lukes won the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching at Boston University. Lukes is Honorary Consul General of the Czech Republic in Boston. Link: https://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/profile/igor-lukes/

Victor McFarland is an associate professor in the Department of History, University of Missouri. His research interests center on energy, the environment, and U.S. relations with the Middle East, with a special focus on Saudi Arabia. His first book, Oil Powers: A History of the U.S.-Saudi Alliance, was published by Columbia University Press in 2020. Originally from North Idaho, Dr. McFarland received his B.A. from Stanford University and his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University. Before coming to the University of Missouri, he was a Miller Center fellow at the University of Virginia in 2012-13 and a Dickey Center fellow at Dartmouth College in 2013-14. In 2018-19 he served as a Warren Center faculty fellow at Harvard University.

Jayita Sarkar is an Assistant Professor at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, where she teaches diplomatic and political history. Her expertise is in 20th century South Asia, history of U.S. foreign relations, nuclear technologies, and connected partitions. She is also the founding director of the Global Decolonization Initiative at BU’s Pardee School. Her first book, Ploughshares & Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War, examines the first forty years of India’s nuclear program through the prisms of geopolitics and technopolitics. It is under contract to be published with Cornell University Press. Her prize-winning research has been published in the Journal of Cold War Studies, Cold War History, International History Review, Journal of Strategic Studies, Nonproliferation Review, and elsewhere. In 2020-21, she is on research leave from Boston University to make progress on her second book project as an Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy, and an affiliate of the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History (WIGH) at Harvard University. Link: https://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/profile/jayita-sarkar/