Paris Calling Vienna: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and Friedrich Torberg's Editorship of "Forum"

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 158-172
Author(s):  
FELIX W. TWERASER
Keyword(s):  
Congress For Cultural Freedom ◽  
Cultural Freedom

“I Am Afraid Americans Cannot Understand”: The Congress for Cultural Freedom in France and Italy, 1950–1957

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-124
Author(s):  
Andrea Scionti
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
Central Intelligence Agency ◽  
International Organization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Intelligence Agency ◽  
Congress For Cultural Freedom ◽  
Political Spectrum ◽  
Cultural Freedom ◽  
The U.S

This article examines the nature and significance of the activities carried out in France and Italy by the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), an international organization that was secretly funded by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to support anti-Communist intellectuals, including those on the left end of the political spectrum. These two West European countries, with their large and politically influential Communist parties, were central to the CCF's work in Europe. The organization's task was complicated by domestic concerns and traditions that forced local intellectuals to stress their autonomy from the CCF International Secretariat and its U.S. patrons. The article uses the cultural Cold War and the competing interpretations of anti-Communism and cultural freedom within the CCF as a lens to explore the limits of U.S. influence and persuasion among the intellectual classes of Europe. By repeatedly asserting their independence and agency, the French and Italian members of the CCF helped redefine the character and limits of U.S. cultural diplomacy.

Conferences on the Introduction of African Literature to University Courses

1963 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 390-392
Author(s):  
Gerald Moore
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
African Literature ◽  
Congress For Cultural Freedom ◽  
University Courses ◽  
French And English ◽  
Cultural Freedom

Dakar, Senegal, 26–30 March, and Freetown, Sierra Leone, 3–8 April 1963. These two conferences—both sponsored by the Congress for Cultural Freedom—arose out of an earlier meeting on inter-university co-operation held at Fourah Bay College in December 1961. The aim of both was to persuade African universities to integrate the teaching of African literature in French and English into their regular syllabuses, and to ensure that it is studied as literature, not for its curiosity or ethnographic value.

scholarly journals Campaigning Culture and the Global Cold War: The Journals of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, edited by Giles Scott-Smith and Charlotte Lerg

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-166
Author(s):  
Deborah Cohn
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Congress For Cultural Freedom ◽  
Cultural Freedom ◽  
Global Cold War

A book review of: Giles Scott-Smith, and Charlotte Lerg, editors, Campaigning Culture and the Global Cold War: The Journals of the Congress for Cultural Freedom. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

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