'Enemies of the People or Valuable Propaganda Tools? Romania’s attitude towards exiles during the Cold War'
In 1960, Vintila Horia was awarded the coveted Goncourt Prix, in France. Not long after, however, following a successful propaganda campaign orchestrated by Bucharest, the author relinquished the prize and left the country. Drawing on this case study, this talk will explore the place Romanian exiles occupied in Romania’s foreign policy and national image building strategy during the Cold War.
Speaker
Dr Beatrice Scutaru is a Lecturer in International History. After completing a PhD at the University of Angers (France), she was a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Padua (Italy) and an Assistant Professor at Dublin City University.
A historian of modern and contemporary Europe, she specialises in transnational history, migration & diaspora, childhood and the Cold War. Dr Scutaru recently co-edited Child Migration and Biopolitics. Old and New Experiences in Europe (Routledge 2020). The volume adopts 'biopolitics' as a theoretical framework to offer a fresh interdisciplinary analysis into the lives of migrant children and youth over the course of the 20th century and up to the present day. She also co-authored the first synthetic overview of the institutionalisation of young girls and women in Bon Pasteur institutions (France) during the second half of the 20th century (under review Presses Universitaires de Rennes).
She has been collaborating on a large international research project looking at memories and experiences of childhood during communism. Dr Scutaru is currently working on a comparative history of child migration across the Iron Curtain, during the Cold War.
Lecture starts 6pm GMT
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