{"id":432,"date":"2012-03-17T14:22:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T18:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=432"},"modified":"2022-03-25T15:23:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T19:23:03","slug":"professor-barclay-lectures-on-west-berlin-in-the-context-of-postwar-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/professor-barclay-lectures-on-west-berlin-in-the-context-of-postwar-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Barclay Lectures on West Berlin in the Context of Postwar History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>David Barclay<\/strong>, the Margaret and Roger Scholten Professor of International Studies, delivered a lecture titled \u201cIsland City, Cold War City: West Berlin in the Context of Postwar History, 1948-1994\u201d at his undergraduate alma mater, the University of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation was based on his current book project: a general history of West Berlin from the time of the city\u2019s division (1948) to the withdrawal of Russian and Allied troops (1994).<\/p>\n<p>The history of West Berlin\u2014a unique creation of the Cold War, like the two German states themselves\u2014has largely been overlooked.<\/p>\n<p>Barclay\u2019s lecture drew on extensive interviews and years of archival research and argued that, in the wake of the well-known \u201cspatial turn\u201d of the 1990s and thereafter, West Berlin\u2019s role in the history of the Cold War can be understood in terms of that truncated city\u2019s function as political space, symbolic space, and cultural space. 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