Events
Cosponsor
- Blinken European Institute

1943 stands out as a year of transitions. Developments, ranging from Italy’s capitulation to the achievements of national liberation movements, illustrated the reverse of the tide and the victorious prospects of the United Nations; questions of social, economic, and political reconstruction produced novel forms of international cooperation; diverse “blueprints for tomorrow” reflected aspirations and concerns, while their implementation generated tensions that undermined the cohesion of antifascist unity. Conceptualizations of the future reflected the anticipation of a new world order that would mark a radical exodus from interwar and wartime experiences. The transforming atmosphere of 1943 signifies the emergence of dilemmas that had been, up to that point, subordinated to the priorities of the war effort and the rise of perplexities that mirrored the shifting social and political dynamics of the period.
The “Global 1943” workshop intends to explore the interplay between political imagination and the realization of the ensuing challenges regarding postwar transition. Even though the wartime apocalyptical rhetoric presented the “future” as a decisive breach from contemporary hardships, multiple developments indicated that the anticipated “future” was rooted in the social and political questions that dominated the present. Therefore the reexamination of 1943 could underline the continuities and discontinuities between interwar transformations, wartime experiences, and postwar reconfigurations.
Program
time9:30am - 9:45am EST
Introduction
time9:45am - 11:15am EST
Panel I
Chair
Marilyn Young
Professor of History
New York University
Experts, Postwar Planning and the Global 1943: Eastern Europe as a 'Laboratory' of the Non-Western World
Małgorzata Mazurek
Associate Professor of Polish Studies
Columbia University
Breaking Britain's Grip: India's Struggle for Freedom During WWII
Moss Roberts
Professor of East Asian Studies
New York University
time11:15am - 11:30am EST
Break I
time11:30am - 1:00pm EST
Panel II
Chair
Małgorzata Mazurek
Associate Professor of Polish Studies
Columbia University
Promoting “Total Democracy” for the Post-war Period: The Shadowy History of Free World Magazine and its Transnational Network
Laurent Jeanpierre
University Professor
Universite Paris 8
Legal Imagination in War: Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt on the Postwar During World War II
Dimitris Kousouris
Postdoctoral Fellow
Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz
time1:00pm - 2:00pm EST
Break II
time2:00pm - 3:30pm EST
Panel III
Chair
Dimitris Kousouris
Postdoctoral Fellow
Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz
“We are Departing from Orthodoxy”: American Communism Envisioning Soviet-American Postwar Cooperation
Kostis Karpozilos
Stavros Niarchos Postdoctoral Fellow
Columbia University
1943 as a Turning Point of Global Communism
Silvio Pons
Professor of East European History
Rome University
time3:30pm - 3:45pm EST
Break III
time3:45pm - 5:00pm EST
Roundtable Discussion
Victoria de Grazia
Moore Collegiate Professor of History
Columbia University
Mark Mazower
Ira D. Wallach Professor of World Order Studies
Department of History, Columbia University
Silvio Pons
Professor of East European History
Rome University
Participants
- Victoria de Grazia Moore Collegiate Professor of History Columbia University
- Laurent Jeanpierre University Professor Universite Paris 8
- Kostis Karpozilos Stavros Niarchos Postdoctoral Fellow Columbia University
- Dimitris Kousouris Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz
- Małgorzata Mazurek Associate Professor of Polish Studies Columbia University
- Mark Mazower Ira D. Wallach Professor of World Order Studies Department of History, Columbia University
- Moss Roberts Professor of East Asian Studies New York University
- Silvio Pons Professor of East European History Rome University
- Marilyn Young Professor of History New York University