Dr Martin D. Brown to present Paper at International Conference

11/04/2011

‘Imagining World War III: Techno-thrillers, Détente and the military balance during the Second Cold War’

Dr Martin D. Brown will be giving a paper at the forthcoming international conference,Publishing in Hot and Cold Wars 1939-89, entitled ‘Imagining World War III: Techno-thrillers, Détente and the military balance during the Second Cold War’. The two day conference is organised by the Institute of English Studies, University of London, Senate House, to be held on 14-15 April 2011.

The conference is concerned with the distinctive ways in which the communication of ideas, news, and entertainment was conducted nationally and internationally during the Second World War and the subsequent Cold War. Our main focus will be on print production, but we will also want to provide a context for this in terms of broadcast materials, and documentary and feature films. We are interested in propaganda, in censorship, in the sustaining of morale at home, and in the projection of ideologies abroad. Relationships between government, government agencies, actually or apparently independent institutions, and publishers and writers, will also of interest.

Full details of the conference, and a list of all papers being presented can be found here: Publishing in Hot and Cold Wars 1939-89

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