Office of the Historian

Schedule

Monday, October 22, 2007:

  • 9:00-9:55: Registration
  • 9:55-10:00: Welcome and Introductory Remarks: Dr. Marc J. Susser, The Historian, U.S. Department of State
  • 10:00-10:20: Keynote Address by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice [Transcript and Video]
  • 10:25-12:00: Roundtable Discussion of Former Government Officials [Transcript]
  • Chair: Dr. Marc Susser, The Historian, U.S. Department of State
  • Dr. Henry Kissinger, National Security Advisor, 1969-1975; Secretary of State, 1973-1977
  • General Alexander Haig, Jr., U.S. Army (ret.), Military Assistant to the National Security Advisor, 1969-1970; Deputy National Security Advisor, 1970-1973; White House Chief of Staff, 1973-1974; Secretary of State, 1981-1982 (Unable to attend)
  • Dr. James Schlesinger, Director of Central Intelligence, 1973; Secretary of Defense, 1973-1975
  • Question and Answer
  • 12:00-2:00: Lunch
  • 2:00-2:20: Welcome and Introduction of Joint Volume: Dr. Marc J. Susser, The Historian, U.S. Department of State and Ambassador Konstantin Provalov, History and Records Department, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • 2:20-3:50: Scholarly Interpretations of the Joint Volume and Détente
  • Chair: Dr. Edward Keefer, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
  • Dr. Sergey M. Rogov, Director of the USA and Canada Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Unable to attend)
  • Professor Robert Schulzinger, University of Colorado at Boulder
  • Professor Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Professor Vladislav Zubok, Temple University
  • 4:00-6:00: Reception (by invitation only)

Tuesday, October 23, 2007:

  • 8:15-8:55: Registration and Breakfast - Enter from Virginia Avenue and 21st Street
  • 8:55-9:00: Welcome
  • 9:00-10:30: Panel 1 - Détente and Europe: Transnational Perspectives
  • Chair/ Commentator: Professor Thomas Schwartz, Vanderbilt University
  • "Recognizing the Soviet Sphere of Influence? U.S.-Soviet Détente and Eastern Europe, 1969-1976," Professor Douglas Selvage, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
  • "Operation Hullabaloo: Henry Kissinger, British Diplomacy, and the Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War," Dr. Stephen Twigge, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
  • "The 'Confidential Channel': Documenting the Secret Diplomacy of Détente, 1969-1972," David C. Geyer, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
  • 10:30-10:45: Break
  • 10:45-12:15: Panel 2 - Selling the End of the Cold War at Home
  • Chair/ Commentator: Professor David Engerman, Brandeis University
  • "Voices from Below: Public Opinion and U.S.-Soviet Dialogue, 1969-1973," Professor Andrey Edemskiy, Slavic Studies Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
  • "The Legitimation of the Nixon-Kissinger Grand Design and Grand Strategy," Professor Dan Caldwell, Pepperdine University
  • "National Security Centrism and the Politics of Détente, 1969-1976," Professor Julian Zelizer, Princeton University
  • 12:15-1:45: Lunch
  • 1:45-3:15: Panel 3 - Détente in Theory and Practice
  • Chair/ Commentator: Dr. Bernd Schaefer, German Historical Institute/Woodrow Wilson Center
  • "A Sea of Confusion: The US, the USSR, and the Mediterranean, 1969-1974," Dr. Effie G. H. Pedaliu, University of West England-Bristol
  • "Détente, Entente, or Linkage? The Helsinki CSCE in U.S.-Soviet Relations," Professor Angela Romano, University of Florence
  • "Vietnam as an Irritant to U.S.-Soviet Détente and Sino-American Rapprochement, 1971-1973," Professor Lorenz L-thi, McGill University
  • 3:15-3:30: Break
  • 3:30-5:00: Panel 4 - Détente by Other Means: Science, Culture, and Human Rights
  • Chair/ Commentator: Dr. Christian Ostermann, Woodrow Wilson Center
  • "The Politics of Détente-Era Cultural Texts, 1969-1976," Professor Kathleen Parth, University of Rochester
  • "The Cold War as a Science Race: Examining the Consequences of the Biological Revolution on Détente, 1969-1975," Professor Shelley Hurt, Vassar College
  • "Human Rights, Détente, and the Making of the Helsinki Final Act," Michael Morgan, Yale University