2025
“Belonging not Excluded: National, International and Transnational Women Diplomacy through War and Peace during the 20th Century.” Panel discussion at the Society for the Historians of American Foreign Relations Conference, Washington D.C., June 26, 2025.
2024
“Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds: Citizen Diplomacy as Women’s Liberation during the Cold War.” Paper to be presented at the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, November 21-24, 2024.
“Not Merely a ‘Kitchen Debate:’ Recognizing the Importance of Gender, Culture, and Foreign Policy in the Soviet Union Before, During, and After 1959.”
Panel presented at the Society for the Historians of American Foreign Relations Conference, Toronto, Ontario, June 14, 2024.
“Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR.” Webinar before the Working Group on Post-Socialist and Comparative Memory Studies (PoSoCoMeS), Memory Studies Association at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, January 22, 2024.
2023
“Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR.” Webinar for the McMaster University Alumni Association, Hamilton, Ontario, November 22, 2023.
“Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR.” Book presentation at Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Quebec, November 15, 2023.
“Receiving the Cold Shoulder? The Historical Importance of the Often Neglected Cultural Diplomacy, Gender, and Economics during the Cold War.” Paper presented at the Society for the Historians of American Foreign Relations Conference, Washington, D.C., June 15-17, 2023.
“Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR.” Paper presented at the Popular Culture Association/American Cultural Association National Conference, April 4-8, 2023.
“Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR.” Presentation at the Program in American Studies Lecture Series, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, February 9, 2023.
“Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR.” Presentation at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy Series of Events, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, January 19, 2023.
2022
“Propaganda Wars: Struggles Over Political Narratives in the Soviet and Post-Soviet World.” Panel presented at the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Conference, Chicago, Illinois, November 10-13, 2022.
“Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture and Consumerism Through Amerika Magazine.” Paper presented at the Society for the Historians of American Foreign Relations Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 16-18, 2022.
“Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture and Consumerism Through Amerika Magazine.” Paper presented at the Popular Culture Association/American Cultural Association National Conference, virtual conference, April 13-16, 2022.
2021
“Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds: Amerika Magazine and the Politics of Polite Propaganda.” Paper presented at the Popular Culture Association/American Cultural Association National Conference, virtual conference, June 2-5, 2021.
2020
“Selling Women, Fashion and Femininity in the Soviet Union: Amerika Magazine and the Politics of Polite Propaganda.” Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Culture and History (ICCH 2020), virtual conference, July 21-23, 2020.
2019
“Shaping the ‘Modern Woman’ and the ‘Babushka:’ Images of Women and Communism in the Ladies’ Home Journal.” Paper presented at the Popular Culture Association/American Cultural Association National Conference, Washington, D.C., April 17-20, 2019.
“Shaping the ‘Modern Woman’ and the ‘Babushka:’ Intersections of Politics and Culture in the Ladies’ Home Journal.” Paper presented at the Tri-University Conference, Guelph, Ontario, March 9, 2019.
2018
“Convenience Foods, Supermarkets, and Miracle Kitchens: Using Food Diplomacy to Break Down the Iron Curtain.” Paper presented at the Popular Culture Association/American Cultural Association National Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 28-31, 2018.
2016
“Women and Leadership in the Classroom and Beyond.” Paper presented at “The Ryerson Way”: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Classroom, Toronto Metropolitan University Faculty Conference, May 19, 2016.
“Leading in a Man’s World.” 14th Women and Leadership Conference, Toronto, Ontario, June 2-4, 2016.
“Man vs. Machine: Selling a Particular Way of Life through the American and Soviet National Exhibitions of 1959.” Paper presented at the Popular Culture Association/American Cultural Association National Conference, Seattle, Washington, March 22-26, 2016.
2015
“Technology Matters: Teaching Tomorrow’s Humanities Today.” Paper presented at Tomorrow’s Classroom, Toronto Metropolitan University Faculty Conference, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, May 21, 2015.
“Winning Female Hearts and Minds: Freedom, Femininity and Consumption at The American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959.” Paper presented at Analyzing the 1950s: Media, Politics, Culture Conference, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, November 15, 2014, and the Popular Culture Association/American Cultural Association National Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 1-4, 2015.
2013
“Containment Culture: The Cold War in the Ladies’ Home Journal, 1946 to 1959.” Paper presented at Negotiating Points of Encounter: The National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, November 7-10, 2013.
“Tearing Down the Iron Curtain, One Woman at a Time: Freedom, Femininity and Consumption at The American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959.” Paper presented at the 11th Annual GWU/UCSB/LSE International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., April 25-27, 2013.
2010
“Freedom and Femininity: Representations of American and Soviet Women in U.S. Cold War Propaganda, 1945 to 1963.” Paper presented at Cold War Encounters – 17th Annual Tri-University History Conference, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, October 16, 2010.
Dr. Diana Cucuz 