Programme

Poputchiki: Fellow-Travellers and ’Useful Idiots’ from Lenin to Putin

All sessions take place in the Common Room on the 3^rd floor of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Fabianinkatu 24.

Thursday 13 June

4.00pm Professor Michael David-Fox (Georgetown University) The God that (Supposedly) Failed: Fellow-Travelers Between Self-Presentation and Moscow’s Grand Strategy

Respondent: Dr Ville Laamanen (Turku University)

RECEPTION for all participants

Friday 14 June

09.00-09.30:  Refreshments

09.30-10-30: Professor Kevin Morgan (Manchester University) The Webbs and their fellow travellers: biographical approaches to the “useful idiots” of the 1930s

10.30-11.30: Dr. Anne Hartmann (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Between Vision and Supervision: Lion Feuchtwanger in Moscow 1937

11.30-12-30: Professor Celia Donert (Liverpool University) The Women’s Caravan of Peace: Dora Russell and the Contested Cultural Diplomacy of the Women’s International Democratic Federation in Europe during the 1950s

 

12.30-1.30: BUFFET LUNCH for all participants

 

1.30-15.00: Dr Pia Koivunen (Turku University) 1957 Moscow World Youth Festival

Professor Geoffrey Roberts (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies/University College Cork) Authors’ World Peace Appeal

Dr Timo Vilén (Helsinki University) Aaltonen and the Statue of Peace

15.00-16.00: Professor Kaarle Nordenstreng (Tampere University) Steering the International Organization of Journalists through Détente and Cold War

16.00: Professor Stephen Hutchings (Manchester University) Useful Idiots, Fake News and Gullible Audiences: RT’s Agency Problem

Respondent: Professor Caroline Kennedy (Loughborough University)

 

19.00 DINNER for speakers, chairs and respondents