The History Department and the Department of Political Science are happy to invite you to a talk by:

Penny Von Eschen (University of Virginia): Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989

Penny M. Von Eschen is William R. Kennan Jr. Professor of American Studies and Professor of History and at the University of Virginia.  Her scholarship is situated at the intersections of African American history, cultural history, the global cold war, and the study of the United States in global and transnational dimensions. She is author of Paradoxes of Nostalgia:  Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder Since 1989” (Duke University Press, 2022); Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War, Harvard University Press, 2004, and Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957, Cornell University Press, 1997. 

In her talk, Penny Von Eschen will address the cold war’s afterlife and the ways cold war nostalgia has cast its shadows over geopolitics, journalism, and political culture, fueling the rise of right-wing nationalism and the embrace of authoritarian sensibilities in the United States and beyond.

Hoping to see you there!