Workshop

“CHILDREN’S COLD WAR”:

THE IMAGES OF CHILDHOOD

IN THE SOVIET-AMERICAN CONFRONTATION

November 26-27, 2019

Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg

Organized by:

• research project “The Cinematic Images of Soviet and American Enemies in the Cold War Symbolic Politics: Comparative Analysis” (The Russian Science Foundation, grant No 18-18-00233);
• research project “The Symbol of Childhood in Political Mobilization in Contemporary Russia” (The Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Expert Institute for Social Research, grant 19-011-31711);
• journal “Children’s Readings”
• the Research Center for Children’s Literature at the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) 

The discussed questions:

• The symbol of childhood: Methodological approaches, content, functions, history, and the use in politics;
• The images of childhood in the USSR and U.S. Cold War cultures;
• The images of childhood in the USSR and U.S. Cold War cinema;
• Children as a target of Cold War propaganda;
• The Soviet-American confrontation in the USSR and U.S. children’s films;
• The Soviet-American confrontation in the USSR and U.S. children’s literature.
• Symbol of childhood in contemporary Russian politics

Programm (in Russian)