Università degli
Studi di Pavia, IUSS, Collegio Ghislieri,
Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies, National Security Archive,
Thatcher Foundation,
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre at St Anthony�s College
Britain and Europe in the 1980s: East & West
Pavia, Collegio Ghislieri, 1-2 October 2007
To conduct a parallel investigation
of the role played by Britain in the Community and in Eastern Europe
in the 1980s is a new idea launched by the international conference
which is going to take place at the historical College �Ghislieri� of
Pavia on October 1-2, 2007.
Challenging the stereotypical interpretation of a totally negative presence
of the UK in Europe, the conference will provide a new interpretation
of the end of bipolarity on both sides of the Iron Curtain in Europe.
This interpretation will reveal the existence of a link connecting British
policy towards the Community with the interest of the Thatcher�s governments
to strengthen relations with Eastern Europe and to open a dialogue with
Gorbachev in view of his role in Europe and in the triangular relation
with the US. The conference will end with a round-table which will place
a strong emphasis on the non-governmental initiatives of UK groups and
institutions operating to the advantage of the cause of social and cultural
liberalisation in Eastern Europe. The conference will make available
both data and new analysis as result of a three years period of research
on the British case, conducted by the Pavia study group led by Ilaria
Poggiolini within the framework of a broader CIMA research project on
the end of the cold war. It will also provide the unique opportunity
to listen directly to the voices of such architects of British diplomacy
in Europe in the 1980, as David Hannay, Stephen Wall e Rodric Braithwaite.
Among the scholars and practitioners there will be Archie Brown, Alex
Pravda, Jan Zielonka, Anne Deighton whose advices had been often requested
by the British government, or Andrei Grachev whose close association
with Gorbachev has continued to the present. Among the participants
at the conference there will be the representatives of the institutions
co-sponsoring the event and some senior scholars representing the avant-garde
of international research on the cold war and its conclusion.
Finally, the conference ends with a very topical discussion at the round-table
on the initiatives in the West during the late �80s in favour of the
revitalisation of civil society in Eastern Europe. Some of these initiatives
originated in the UK. The project �Freedom for Publishing, Publishing
for Freedom� was launched at Oxford by Ralf Dahrendorf and Timothy Garton-Ash,
but many more plans which will be discussed were carried out successfully
by the Media, particularly BBC, or by the publishing world.
For information:
Secretariat, Carola Cerami
e-mail: [email protected]
Program
Britain and Europe in the 1980s: East &
West
Pavia, Collegio Ghislieri, 1-2 October 2007
Monday October 1st
9,30:10,15
Opening greetings and remarks by representatives of co-sponsoring
partners
Coffee break
Session I - 10,30:12,30
Man to do business with
THATCHER- GORBACHEV: HOW IT ALL BEGAN
Archie Brown, Andrei Grachev, Svetlana Savranskaya, Leopoldo Nuti (Chair)
13,00 - Lunch: Rettorato
Session II - 15,00:17,00
One Overriding Positive goal for Thatcher?
MAKING THE SINGLE MARKET: VIEWS FROM LONDON AND BRUSSELS
David Hannay, Stephen Wall, Jean Marie Palayret, Piers Ludlow, Anne
Deighton (Chair)
Coffee break
17,15:18,15
General Discussion, introduced by Antonio Varsori
20,00 - Dinner
Tuesday October 2nd
Session III - 9,00:10,45
Links across the European divide
BRITISH OSTPOLITIK: ACHIEVEMENTS AND FAILURES
Rodric Braithwaite, Alex Pravda, Frédéric Bozo, Max Guderzo
(Chair)
Coffee break
11,00:13,00
Round table and conclusions
WHAT WE NOW KNOW: OPEN AND CLOSED SOCIETIES AT THE END OF THE COLD WAR
Andras Bozoki, Tom Blanton, Federico Montelli, Frances Pinter, Federico
Romero, Stephen Wall, Jan Zielonka, Ilaria Poggiolini (Chair)
13,00:14,00 - Lunch and departure
of guests
Scientific Commitee:
Chris Collins (Thatcher Foundation), Tom Blanton (National Security
Archive, Washington) , Ennio Di Nolfo (Florence Un.), Leopoldo Nuti
(Roma 3 Un.), Ilaria Poggiolini (Pavia Un.), Salvatore Veca (IUSS Pavia)
Papers, interviews and
abstracts prepared for the upcoming conference:
Britain and Europe in the 1980s: East & West (These
are for the use
of the conference participants only).
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