Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in the Cold War: A Conference
Date: Mar 24, 2017
Remarks from the conference:
Thomas Kent, President and CEO, RFL/RL on “RFL/RL Today and Yesterday” (full text)
Agenda:
9:30-10am: Welcome Remarks
Victoria Phillips, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Project, Adjunct Lecturer, European Institute, Department of History, Associated Faculty, Harriman Institute
10-10:45am: Conference Keynote
“Managing Influence Projects: Lessons from Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty”
A Ross Johnson, Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution; Adviser to the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Project, Hoover Archives; former Director, Radio Free Europe
11am-12noon: THEORY IN ACTION: Psychological Warfare, Intellectual Backlash, and Funding for Propaganda in the Cold War
Commentator:
Greg Tomlin, Branch Chief at Joint Staff, The Pentagon, author, Murrow’s Cold War: Public Diplomacy for the Kennedy Administration
Fatima Dar
Psychological Warfare and Soft Power: A State of Total War
Adriana Popa
“Radio Free Europe: Intellectual Backlash”
Monique Kil
“A Penny for Every Word: Radio Free Europe’s Call for ‘Truth Dollars'”
12pm-1pm: SOFT POWER?: Race, Religion, Gender
Commentator:
Victoria de Grazia, Moore Collegiate Professor of History, author, Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance Through Twentieth-Century Europe
Lotte Houwink ten Cate
Free Man in a Free Society: Broadcasting the March on Washington in the Soviet Union
David Noell
Broadcasting Against Persecution: How American Cold War Broadcasters Used the Communist Quarrel with Religion to Define Religious Freedom
Thalia Wells Ertman
“Every Courageous and Incisive Measure”: The Participation of Jewish and African-American Women’s Groups in the Crusade for Freedom’s Fight Against Communism
1pm-2pm: Luncheon Keynote
“One Hundred Years of Cold War: Russian and American Interference in Domestic Politics Abroad”
Kenneth Osgood, Professor of History, Colorado School of Mines, author, Total Cold War: Eisenhower’s Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad
2pm-3pm: “Radio Free Europe in the Twenty-First Century”
Thomas Kent, President and Chief Executive Officer of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
3:15-4:15pm: RFE FALLOUT: Orchestras, Television, and Balloons
Commentator:
Greg Tomlin, Branch Chief at Joint Staff, The Pentagon, author, Murrow’s Cold War: Public Diplomacy for the Kennedy Administration
Giancarlo Milea
The Philharmonia Hungarica: Pride or Propaganda? 1957-1959
Tinatin Japaridze
MIND THE GAP: Rebuilding the U.S.-Russian Space Bridge in the Post-Cold War Era
Sarah Roth
Radiowaves and Weather Balloons: How Radio Free Europe’s Domination of the Airwaves and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
4:15-5:00pm: Closing Remarks
Csaba Békés