Thursday, 13 March
12.00-13.00 Arrival of Particpants

13.00-13.15 Welcome and Introductory Remarks to the Conference
Sandra Bott and Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl (University of Lausanne)

13.15-14.15
Keynote: “Between the Blocs: Neutrality, Non-Alignment, and the Cold War”
Jussi M. Hanhimäki (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva)

Chair: Marco Wyss (Universities of Chichester and Lausanne)

14.15-14.30 Coffee break

14.30-16.00 Panel 1: Neutralism before the Non-Aligned Movement
Chair : Matthias Schulz (University of Geneva)

− "The Limitations of US Propaganda: Ideological Conflict and the Bandung Conference ", Eric Pullin (Carthage College)

− "The Making of Nehruvian Non-Alignment: K.M. Panikkar between China and the Third World", Rita Paolini (University of Milano)

− "Flirting with Neutrality: The Failed Bid for a Soviet-Iranian Non-Aggression Treaty in 1959", Roham Alvandi (London School of Economics and Political Science)

16.00-16.30 Coffee break

16.30-18.00 Panel 2: The Rise of the Non-Aligned Movement
Chair: Nataša Mišković (University of Basle)

− "The Road to Belgrade: The Critical Role of Yugoslavia in the Establishment of the Non-Aligned Movement", Svetozar Rajak (London School of Economics and Political Science)

− "The Non-Aligned Movement, 1961-1973", Lorenz Lüthi (McGill University)

− "Beyond Continents, Colours, and the Cold War: Yugoslavia, Algeria and the Struggle for Non-Alignment, 1961-73", Jeffrey James Byrne (University of British Columbia)

Friday, 14 March

9.00-10.30 Panel 3: Alternative Perspectives on Neutralism
Chair: Anne Deighton (University of Oxford)

− "The Semi-Periphery in Action: Egypt’s Adventure in the Afro-Asian World, 1955-1965", Guy Laron (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

− "Self-reliance or Dependence? Comparing Albania and North Korea in the Global Cold War", Elidor Mëhilli (Hunter College of the City University of New York)

− "“Third World Begins to Flex its Muscles” – The Non-Aligned Movement and the North-South-Conflict during the 1970s", Jürgen Dinkel (Justus Liebig University Giessen)

10.30-11.00 Coffee Break

11.00-12.30 Panel 4: The Neutrals
Chair: Sacha Zala (Swiss Diplomatic Documents)

− "Swedish economic relations with the NAM countries of the Third World, ca. 1950–1975", Nikolas Glover (Uppsala University)

− "Progressive Pragmatists: Ireland, the ‘Like-minded’ States, and the Search for a New International Economic Order, 1974-82", Kevin O’Sullivan (National University of Ireland Galway)

− "Former des élites non communistes pour les pays décolonisés: l’Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales (IUHEI) de Genève, les Etats-Unis et la guerre froide", Luc van Dongen (University of Fribourg)

12.30-14.00 Lunch Break

14.00-15.30 Panel 5: Mediation
Chair: Brigitte Studer (University of Berne)

− "The Rise and Fall of Non-Aligned Mediation, 1961-1966", Robert B. Rakove (Stanford University)

− "An Austrian Mediation in Vietnam? Neutrality, the Superpowers and the Global Cold War", Wolfgang Mueller and Maximilian Graf (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

− "La representation par la Suisse des intérêts des Etats-Unis dans la Guerre froide globale", Virginie Fracheboud (University of Lausanne)

15.30-16.00 Coffee Break

16.00-17.30 Panel 6: Cold War in the Congo
Chair: Patrick Harries (University of Basel)

− "Ghana, India and the Transnational Dynamics of the Congo Crisis at the United Nations", Alanna O’Malley (European University Institute)

− "Irish Neutrality and its Influence in Irish Peacekeeping in the Congo, 1960-1964", Catherine Lee Porter (University of Cambridge)

− "La présence économique suisse au Congo et au Ghana dans les premières années d’indépendance : opportunisme et désillusion helvétique dans le contexte de la Guerre froide", Mathieu Humbert (University of Lausanne)

17.30-17.45 Break

17.45-19.00 Key Note: “Bandung Mythologies: Concepts of Cohesion and the Fate of the Third World Project” Odd Arne Westad (London School of Economics and Political Science)

20.00 Conference Dinner
Saturday, 15 March

09.00-10.30 Panel 7: Africa’s Cold War
Chair: Gesine Krüger (University of Zurich)

− "Decolonising African Minds: Kwame Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism as an Interventionist Ideology (1957-1966)", Frank P.L. Gerits (European University Institute)

− "The Namibian Liberation Struggle: The Role of the Non-Aligned Movement and the ‘Neutral’ European Countries", Chris Saunders (University of Cape Town)

− "Cubans in Angola. Internationalist Solidarity, Transfers and Interactions in the Global South 1975-1991", Christine Hatzky (Leibniz University Hanover)

10.30-11.00 Coffee Break

11.00-12.30 Panel 8: Transnational Networks and Actors
Chair: Claude Hauser (University of Fribourg)

− "The Commonwealth and the Cold War", Sue Onslow (School of Advanced Study, University of London)

− "Switzerland and Palestinian Terrorism – The 1969 Kloten Airport Attack and the 1970 “Skyjack Sunday”", Aviva Guttmann (University of Bern)

− "Between Allies and Proliferators: France and the FRG in South Asia amidst US nonproliferation efforts, 1974-1978", Jayita Sarkar (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva)

12.30-13.30 Concluding Remarks: “Striking a Preliminary Balance: Neutrality and Neutralism in the Third World during the Cold War”
Robert McMahon (Ohio State University)