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Attempts at settling the legacy of the Cold War have resulted in national Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, prosecution (or attempted prosecution) of state officials, politicians and military officers and the construction of monuments and memorials as sites of memory. They have inspired an outpouring of literary and artistic works, and a flourishing film and documentary industry. They are often marked, however, by on-going dissent and recrimination, as the past ‘refuses to pass.’ This conference aims to trace these various ways of judging the past both in the countries at the hot centre of the Cold War and in those that were swept up in the wake of its confrontations. How have we and how can we come to terms with a past that is still so present? Speakers includePhillip Deery (Professor of History, College of the Arts, Victoria University)Tim Harper (Reader in South-East Asian and Imperial History, University of Cambridge)Katherine Hite (Professor of Political Science on the Frederick Ferris Thompson Chair, Vassar)Klaus Neumann (Professor of History, Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University)Joy Damousi (Professor of History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne)Ann Curthoys (Professsor emeritus, University of Sydney) Registration There are no conference fees. All sessions are open to interested academics. However it would help us to plan the conference if you can indicate that you are planning to attend.Programme (All sessions held in Kevin Lee room, Main Quad, Sydney UnivrsityMonday 28Tuesday 299-10Welcome and opening session Revisiting the Cold War Phillip DeeryCultural Subjectivities in Researching the Cold War Chair: Nicholas BrownPeter Read and Marivic Wyndham:Cross-Cultural Challenges in Collaborative Research10.0.15CoffeeCoffee10.15-11.30&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;[brief pause]11.30 -12.30Legacies of the Cold War in South-East AsiaTim Harper: Remembering and Forgetting the Cold War in Southeast Asia   Adrian Vickers: Studying Indonesia in a Cold-War Context, Some Mainly Australian Conflicts&#160;Representing the Korean WarChair: Adrian VickersJudith Keene: ‘Massacre in Korea’: Picasso’s other Guernica?Su-Kyoung Hwang: The Spectatorship of Korean War MassacresReclaiming the Victims of the Cold WarChair: Katherine HiteMichael Humphrey and Estela Valverde: Disappearance, Exhumation and Reburial: the historical recovery of victims in Argentina, Spain and Bosnia&#160;Cold War and DecolonisationNdu-Life Njoku: Instrumentality of the ‘Enemy within’ in the Neo-colonization of the African MindElizabeth Rechniewski: Reclaiming the Legacy of the UPC (Cameroon)12.30-1.30LunchLunch1.30-3.30Memories of the Cold War in Fiction, Cinema, TheatreChair: Judith KeenePeter Morgan: Ismail Kadare and the Case of AlbaniaDanica Jenkins: Memories as monsters: the 'return of the dead' in post-1989 Balkan cinemaWendy-Llyn Zaza: Writing the Return from Exile: “Mayéutica” (1997) and “La ex exiliada” (2005) by Teresa GraciaWriting the Memory of the Cold War in AustraliaChair: Joy DamousiAnn Curthoys: My Cold War: History and MemoirJohn Docker: Writing ‘ego-history’Betty O’Neill: The Quest for Justice: one man’s story3.30-45TeaTea3.45-5.30Uses of the Past. The Quest for Historical Justice in GreeceChair: Vras KaralisKlaus Neumann: Debtors and CreditorsJoy Damousi: Memories of the Greek Civil War among Children of the Diaspora ‘The Past that will not Pass’Chair: Janna ThompsonJames Curran: Memory failure: The collapse of sentiment in the US-Australia Alliance, 1968-75Perry Johanssen: Living Hell and Living History: Differing approaches to come to terms with Swedish support of Pol PotClosing session: Nicholas Brown: ‘A profound personal choice, not an abstract one’: reflections on teaching the Cold War, and assessing its pedagogical relevance6-7Politics, Human Rights and the Art of Commemoration in the AmericasKatherine HiteChair: Judith KeeneBooklaunch Tessa Morris-Suzuki launches Klaus Neumann and Janna Thompson’s book Historical Justice and Memory7.30Conference Dinner  Book launchTuesday 29 September at Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road. 6 for 6.30-7.30pm.Tessa Morris-Suzuki will launch Historical Justice and Memory. All welcome.Historical Justice and Memory Edited by Klaus Neumann and Janna ThompsonUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 2015