CFP: The UN and the Post-War Global Order: Dumbarton Oaks in Perspective after 70 years, SOAS, 17-18 May
Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS, University of London 17-18 May 2014
Two Day Colloquium: Keynote Presentation by Professor Tom Zeiler (University of Colorado) Author of "Unconditional Defeat – Japan, American and the End of World War II" (2004) and Annihilation: A Global Military History of World War II (Oxford, 2011).
The history of 'Dumbarton Oaks' is overshadowed in the formation of the post-war order in many ways; most notably by the San Francisco conference of April 1945 which gave birth to the United Nations Organisation. Yet in a number of important ways it was the Dumbarton Oaks conference, or the "Washington Conversations on International Peace and Security Organization" to give it its full and formal title, that shaped the "postwar international organisation" agreed to in the 1943 Moscow Declaration. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Conversations in the Georgetown suburbs of Washington DC, this colloquium will explore the conference, its antecedents, machinations and legacies.
The deadline for paper (and panel) proposals is 30th March 2014.