Covert Cultures: Art and the Secret State, 1911-1989

Friday, 4 February 2011 to Saturday, 5 February 2011
Location: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge

Friday 4 February
8.30 - 9.30	Registration
9.30	Introduction Sir Richard Dearlove KCMG OBE (former head of the British Secret Intelligence Service)
10.00 - 11.30	Panel I: Surveillance & Paranoia Dr Kristin Veel (University of Copenhagen): Surveillance Narratives: overload, desire & representation in contemporary narrative fiction Dr James Smith (Oxford): Stalinizing Bloomsbury? John Lehmann, the Comintern and the British secret state Mr Vladimir Dobrenko (University of Konstanz): Cold War Conspiratorial Imagination: Vigilance & Spy Mania in Soviet Cold War Posters & Film Moderator: Dr Alex Houen (Cambridge)
11.30 - 12.00	Coffee break
12.00 - 13.30	Panel II: Air Wars, Air Waves Dr David Hendy (University of Westminster): Radio, Mind-Control & Air War in the Early Twentieth-Century Britain Helen Macdonald (Cambridge): Maxwell Knight, Radio, Naturalism & the Secret State Ms Lily Ford (London Consortium): Views from the Air, Viewed in the Archive Moderator: Dr Ian Patterson (Cambridge)
13.30 - 14.30	Lunch
14.30 - 16.00	Panel III: Exhibiting Ideology Ms Maria Mileeva (Courtauld Institute): Soviet Culture for Export: The Case of the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS) Dr Rebecca Elliott (Australian National University): Two Decades of American Painting: MoMA, USIA and the Cold War Prof. Neal White (Bournemouth University): Exploring Dark Places Moderator: Dr Luke Skrebowski (Cambridge)
16.00 - 16.30	Coffee break
16.30 - 17.30	Keynote Address Dr Trevor Paglen

Saturday 5 February
9.00 - 10.30	Panel IV: Spy Fictions Mr Glyn Salton-Cox (Yale): From the Boarding-house to the Safe House: John Le Carré as Petit-Bourgeois Realist Mr Tim Crook (Goldsmiths): Mythologizing the first ‘C’ Captain Mansfield Smith-Cumming in spy fiction and spy novel writing as an intelligence operation Prof. Richard Keeble (Lincoln): Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Spooks Moderator: Dr Leo Mellor (Cambridge)
10.30 - 11.00	Coffee break
11.00 - 12.15	Keynote Address Prof. Adam Piette (Sheffield)
12.15 - 13.00	Lunch
13.00 - 14.30	Panel V: Cold War Screen Cultures Prof. Mark Dorrian (Newcastle): The Political Imaginary of Powers of Ten Prof. John Tulloch (Lincoln): Paranoia, Mysticism, Revenge and the Secret State: Contrasting Versions of Edge of Darkness as Political Texts Dr Dietmar Kammerer (Freie Universität Berlin): Propaganda, surveillance, instruction: the filmic production of the GDR’s Ministry for State Security Moderator: TBC
14.30 - 15.00	Coffee break
15.00 - 16.30	Panel VI: Berlin Dr John Heath (Vienna): Hermeneutics & Surveillance: Literary Criticism for the Stasi: the File on Stefan Heym Ms Lorna Muir (Aberdeen): Democracy and its Discontents: Rainer Werner Fassbinder and surveillance in 1970s West Germany Dr Pam Skelton (Central St Martins): Who Dwells Where? Art and the Stasi Archive Moderator: Prof. Andrew Webber (Cambridge)
16.30 - 17.00	Refreshments
17.00 - 18.00	Exhibition talk Dr Nicholas Hiley (University of Kent): Cartoonists and the Secret State