1968—The Global and the Local
International Workshop, Georgetown University
March 23-24, 2018
Friday, March 23
Venue: Car Barn 427, 3520 Prospect St NW, Washington, DC 20007
1. 9.15-10.15 am: The Global and Local around 1968
Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University) Welcome and Introduction
Timothy Brown (Northeastern University): What’s so global about the Global 1968?
10.15-10.30 am: Coffee Break
2. 10.30-12.45: Encounters with the “Third World”
Chair: Jamie Martin (Georgetown University)
Christoph Kalter (Free University, Berlin): From Global to Local and Back: The Third World Concept in the Radical Sixties
Ben Feldman (Georgetown University):The Monthly Review School and the Political Economy of the Third World Left
Sara Pugach (California State University, LA): Occupy the Mission: Malian Students in the GDR between Hope and Protest, 1968-1971
Thom Loyd (Georgetown University): 'Thank God I am no Longer a Pawn of an International Conspiracy!’: African Students, the Cold War, and the Changing Geography of International Education, 1960-1969
12.45-2.15 pm Lunch Break
3. 2.15-3.30 pm: The Gender of Protest in Global and Local Contexts
Chair: Michael Kazin (Georgetown University)
Christina von Hodenberg (Queen Mary University of London): ‘1968’ in Bonn and Beyond: Local Variations and Global Misinterpretations
Emily Hobson (University of Nevada): 1968 and the Formation of the Gay and Lesbian Left
3.30-3.45 Coffee Break
4. 3.45-5.15 pm: The Other Side of 1968
Chair: Mario Daniels (Georgetown University)
Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University): Other 68ers: Memories of Center- Right Activism of the 1960s and 1970s
Quinn Slobodian (Wellesley College): Anti-68ers: Right-Libertarians and the Long March against Human Equality
Saturday, March 24
Venue: McGhee Library, Intercultural Center, 3rd Floor
5. 9.30-10.45: Anti-Imperialist Entanglements
Chair: Hanno Balz (Johns Hopkins)
Alex Vazansky (University of Nebraska): I'll Bleed for Myself: Black Power and Antiwar Activism among GIs in Germany, 1968-1971
Alex Macartney (Georgetown University): Hirohito on the Rhine: the Emperor’s
State Visit to West Germany and Entangled Japanese-German 1960s History
10.45-11.00 Coffee Break
6. 11 am-12.30 pm: Urban Spaces and Local Protest I
Chair: Alexander Sedlmaier (University of Bangor)
Maurice Jackson (Georgetown University):April in Washington: Cherry
Blossoms, Burning Buildings and Lost Opportunities
Anke Ortlepp (University of Kassel/German Historical Institute, Washington, DC):Paranoid Form: New Brutalist Architecture and the Limits of Freedom in the late 1960s
12.30-1.30 Lunch Break
1.30-2.45 pm Urban Spaces and Local Protest II
Chair: Alexander Sedlmaier (University of Bangor)
Daniel Gordon (Edge Hill University): From Rome to Paris: Free Public Transport - A Post-1968 Transnational Utopia?
Andrew Demshuk (American University): Leipzig in 1968: East Germany’s Forgotten Protest
Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University