German Historical Institute Rome: Martin Baumeister; in collaboration with the Centre for Peace History at the Department of History, University of Sheffield: Benjamin Ziemann (Web)

Venue: Roma
Time: 14.-16.02.2018
Abstract submission: 15.09.2017

The mobilization against the deployment of US Pershing and Cruise Missile atomic warheads in the wake of the NATO Dual Track Solution in 1979 was a watershed moment in the recent political history of Western Europe. The anti-nuclear protests of the late 1970s and 1980s activated civil society, renegotiated the parameters of political participation and redefined the understanding of (international and domestic) security. The contours and implications of the 1980s anti-nuclear protests have been fairly well researched for key western European countries over the past decade. Developments in Southern Europe, however, have not yet been substantially studied.

The key objective of this conference is to bring together historians, political scientists, sociologists and academics from cultural and media studies who are conducting empirical research on anti-nuclear and anti-militarist peace protests in southern European countries during the late 1970s and 1980s. The focus will be on Greece, Spain and Italy, three countries that were involved in the 1980s mobilisation cycle in different ways. … read more and source (Web)