Meet the team behind Remembering a Tricontinental Past
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Dr. Anna Grimaldi
Anna Grimaldi is a Lecturer at the Department of History, King’s College London. Her PhD looked at Brazilian contributions to the transnational human rights movement through the period of their military dictatorship of 1964-1985. She has since been teaching on global Cold War history and international development, with expertise in Latin America. More broadly, her work seeks to understand the construction of human rights discourses and practices by actors of the Global South through transnational solidarity networks. Currently she is focusing on the Cuban political movement of the Tricontinental.
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Dr. Sandrine Gukelberger
Sandrine Gukelberger works at the Department of History and Sociology at the University of Konstanz. From 2018-2021 she worked intensively on decolonial protest movements as one of the principal investigators in the research project Youth Movements and Political Change, financed by the German Research Foundation. She is currently researching as one of the principal investigators on the social practice of generating difference in federal, state and local authorities as part of the large-scale study Racism as a threat to social cohesion in the context of selected social and institutional areas, financed by the Federal Ministry of the Interior.
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Karsten van der Tol
Karsten van der Tol is a Research Assistant for the Human Rights from the Global South research project. He completed his undergraduate degree in Sociology at the University of Bath and thereafter received a master’s degree in Political Economy of Emerging Markets from King’s College London. His master’s dissertation focused on the data broker industry and the exploitation of personal privacy in the form of data.
Friends of the project
Below is a list of research projects and calls that we think might be of interest.
Youth Movements and Political Change
Youth Movements and Political Change is a project financed by the German Research Foundation. The project intends to clarify, through empirical methods and data, how youth movements in Senegal and Bangladesh create meaningful references to decoloniality. Theoretically, the project draws on social-movement research as well as cultural sociology. Methodologically, it takes a micro-sociological perspective on the everyday practice of youth movements and protests. The comparison of two youth movements in two different societies will allow the identification and mapping of analogous and conflicting patterns, the formulation of context-independent statements and the identification of general structures.
Keynote, by Distinguished Professor Thy Phu (University of Toronto)
The workshop will focus on the design and materiality of illustrated periodicals produced and read against the backdrop of the Cold War. We invite contributions that explore aesthetic, historical, theoretical or methodological approaches to the 'politics of the page'. We are interested in periodicals' visual and material strategies as these manifest in the layout, typography, uses of photography, choices of format, ways of production, reproduction or circulation, during the Cold War.
Workshop: 13 May 2022
Materialising the Cold War is a partnership between the University of Stirling and National Museums Scotland that will explore how the Cold War, its global experience and its heritage are described in museums and how museums can adapt to tell this story in future. It will achieve this in two ways: first, by evaluating existing displays and collections together with key partners in the UK, in Germany and in Norway, and second, by creating a new, ground-breaking special exhibition at NMS on the basis of our findings.
Cold War Museology: How museums shape(d) our understanding of the Cold War
We invite practitioners and academics to propose papers for an international conference hosted in Edinburgh in June 2023, that will bring together inter-disciplinary and international research on Cold War museology. We aim broadly to analyse the current condition of the material heritage the Cold War in theory and practice in Europe and beyond, while questioning gaps, deficits, challenges and future programmes of work. We will also make a selection from these papers to propose an edited volume of essays.
Please read the Call for Papers for more information.
Deadline for abstracts: Monday 4 April 2022
The Socialist Countries and the Third World: Recent Approaches and New Perspectives Institute of World History, Charles University September 8-9, 2022
Recent years have witnessed an intense interest in the relations between the state socialist countries and the Third World. From the Paris-based interdisciplinary group ELITAF (Élites africaines/African Elites Educated in the former Socialist Countries) to the Socialism Goes Global international project, scholars have addressed key topics of these relations, from national liberation and international politics to education and development, looking at the experiences and views of the actors involved and revisiting the political economy of EastSouth cooperation from new angles. At the same time, in view of the scope and complexity of these relations, many of their components and actors have necessarily been neglected. This applies to state socialist countries (other than the Soviet Union and East Germany), whose policies have not been sufficiently studied, and to the overwhelming majority of Third World countries. Important topics, such as industrial and scientific cooperation, military relations, training and cooperation in sport, cultural exchange, the development of irrigation projects and the construction of dams, the role of women, let alone the trajectories of Africans and Asians who returned from the socialist countries after their training, deserve much more attention.
Please read the Call for Papers for more information
Deadline for papers: Thursday 1 September 2022
Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with The Global South is a digital scholarship project created and designed in 2014 by University of Virginia professor Anne Garland Mahler and brought to fruition in 2017 through the additional contributions and collaboration of Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra of Penn State University, Leigh Anne Duck -- editor of The Global South -- of the University of Mississippi, and UVa's College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. It is supported through the University of Virginia's Mellon Global South Initiative.