Anna Maria Scognamiglio

PhD candidate
Department for Contemporary East European History and Culture 

 

ascognam@uni-bremen.de

 

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Current project

The GDR in the Cold War and Post-Cold War Global International System: The Role of the East German Economy and Its Impact on Shifting East-West Relations.


Research Interests

• East-West energy trade relations during the Cold War
• Economic history of East Germany
• History of the Cold War

Short CV

Since 11/2020  PhD student at the Department for Historical Studies at the University of Milan - University of Bremen (Cotutelle).  Advisor: Prof. Giulia Lami, Co-advisor: Prof. Susanne Schattenberg

2017 – 2020     MA in “Languages and Intercultural Communication in the Euromediterranean Area” at the University of Naples "L'Orientale".
Thesis in History of Globalization of Markets. Title of the thesis: Energy Sector & Economic Diplomacy in the History of FRG-USSR Economic Relations during the Cold War;
Supervisor: Prof. Simone Selva; Co-rapporteur: Prof. Stephen G. Gross
 
2018 – 2019     Online post-graduate course in “Global Marketing, Communication and Made in Italy” organised by Fondazione Italia-USA and Centro Studi Comunicare l'Impresa

2014 – 2017     BA in “Comparative Languages and Cultures” at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”.
Thesis in Russian Language. Title of the thesis: I Germanismi nella Lingua Russa.
Supervisor: Prof. Roberta Salvatore
 
Work experience
06/05/2019 – 05/08/2019 Undergraduate Internship at the Italian Cultural Institute in Munich (Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation)
 
Conferences
27/05/2021       Online Eogan annual meeting “New Sources for new histories of energy”
Presentation: “Energy sector and Economic Diplomacy in the History of FRG-USSR Economic Relations in the 1970s and early 1980s”

20-22/05/2021 Online International PhD Conference “Dilemmas of Modernity 200 Years
of Central Europe Cultures and Societies”
Presentation: “The GDR in the Cold War and Post-Cold War Global International System: the Role of the East German Economy and Its Impact on Shifting East-West Relations”