Propaganda and Neutrality in the Twentieth Century
This seminar launches the new edited volume entitled Propaganda and Neutrality. The editors, Edward Corse and Marta García Cabrera, will give a presentation outlining their findings and their views about the relationship between these two contested concepts. The bookis the first broad-ranging, comprehensive and comparative study of propaganda and neutrality, bringing together world-leading and early career historians, exploring case studies from the First World War to the Cold War in countries ranging from the traditional – Switzerland and Sweden – to the less well known – Greece, Portuguese Macau and Laos. Five of the contributors – Stephen Badsey, Richard Carswell, Jo Fox, Helena F.S. Lopes and P. Mike Rattanasengchanh – will join Edward and Marta for a panel session in the second half of the seminar to discuss issues and themes raised in the book such as the methods of propaganda utilised in neutral countries and the interaction between the concepts of propaganda and neutrality as well as diplomacy, espionage, diasporic communities and trade. The panel will consider whether neutrality is really a form of propaganda in itself and whether it is possible to be truly neutral in any propaganda battle.
Dr Edward Corse and Dr Marta García Cabrera are honorary research fellows of the Centre for the History of War Media and Society, University of Kent.
All welcome- this seminar is free to attend but advance registration is required.
This session is a hybrid session and in-person tickets are limited.
This page was last updated on 14 March 2025
