To mark International Women's Day and the tenth anniversary of the official opening of the Women's Library Reading Room at LSE, the Department of International History’s project in History, Culture and Diplomacy is pleased to announce a day of papers, panels, and a keynote speech on women, diplomacy and politics. 

The event will be held in partnership with the LSE Library and its Women's Library. On Friday 8 March, the Department of International History conference will open with a paper by Denise M. Lynn, author of Where is Juliet Stuart Poyntz: Gender, Spycraft and anti-Stalinism in the Early Cold War, in which she will discuss Poyntz’s work at LSE during the interwar. After a selection of panels and papers by faculty and emerging scholars, the day will conclude at 5pm with a keynote speech by the renowned award-winning biographer Blanche Wiesen Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at Seventy-five.

The History, Culture and Diplomacy project hosts events to further the study of the history of culture and international diplomacy under the aegis of the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Projects, speakers, conferences and student fellowships examine the ways in which “soft power” ideological campaigns were joined with “hot war” confrontations. The project’s primary intents are: 1. to encourage new approaches to cultural diplomatic history; 2. to encourage networks of cooperation among international scholars.

For more information and to register, click here.