Seventh Nordic Summer School in Contemporary History: Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary History. Americanization, Cold War, and Foreign Aid.

Call for papers to the 7th Nordic Summer School in Contemporary History for PhD students. The main theme is transnational perspectives on contemporary history. The aim is to discuss the transnational perspective in relation three central research areas: Americanization, the Cold War, and Foreign Aid. Research in these areas unite cultural and political approaches. As such they are eminently suited to the twin purpose of the summer school: 1) to broaden the knowledge of the participants on central issues of contemporary historiography and history by means of lectures, 2) workshop presentations and discussions with senior scholars and fellow students of papers delivered by the participating PhD students. Date for the venue August 16th – August 20th 2009. Place University of Aarhus, Denmark.

Application deadline 11 April 2009, including a completed registration form, a short outline of the paper to be presented, CV, a short description of your PhD-project.