1968/2008

In this comparative review of three new books about 68 and SDS, Elsa Dixler, suggests “It might be argued that the movements of the 1960s were far more successful culturally than they were politically..”
Read the review here.
The Books:
RAVENS IN THE STORM
A Personal History of the 1960s Antiwar Movement.
By Carl Oglesby.
336 pp. Scribner. $25.
AMERICA’S CHILD
A […]

The British Sociological Association’s Theory Study Group will be hosting a conference on the events of May 1968 in collaboration with the Birkbeck Institute of Social Research. The conference is timed to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of May 1968 and seeks to provide a forum for reflecting back on the events of that time as well […]

In Ari Berman’s recent article on the role and history of Superdelegates in the Democratic National Convention, he explains that their origin can be traced to the 1968 DNC in Chicago.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080218/berman

“Memories of 1968. International Perspectives”
University of Leeds 17th-18th April 2008
Keynote speakers:
Janette Habel (Paris)
Marco Antonio Guerra (San Paulo, Brazil)
Martin Klimke (Heidelberg/Washington D.C.)
John Foot (London)
Sponsored by: School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Leeds; Association for the Study of Modern & Contemporary France (ASMCF), Ambassade de France, Italian Cultural Institute, Goethe Institute, Brazilian Embassy, Universities’ China […]

March 16-17 in NYC
at Left Forum this year: 1968 - 40 years later
REIMAGINING 1968: THE BLACK POWER MOVEMENT AND ITS LEGACIES
This panel critically analyzes the way in which Black Power radicalism impacted the local, national, and international events of 1968.
Donna Murch – Rutgers University
Herb Boyd – Journalist, New York, Amsterdam News
Peniel Joseph – Brandeis University
NO […]

1968 and All That / Be Realistic! Demand the Impossible!
Saturday, 10 May 2008, 10am - 10pm
Conway Hall
Red Lion Square
London WC1
Talks | Films | Food | Art | Debates | Books
Speakers from France, USA, Russia, Germany, Eastern Europe and Britain.
Free registration in advance: just e-mail us your name. This event is listed on Facebook where you […]

Friday, February 1st 7:30pm
The Brecht Forum presents:
1968-2008: Columbia University, Harlem & the World
An intergenerational Dialogue
with: (Kazembe Balagun, Thulani Davis, Bryan Mercer, Mark Rudd)
During the world-wide revolutionary upsurges of 1968, Columbia University was the site of a series of important and interconnected struggles. As the protest movements against the seemingly endless war in Vietnam continued to […]

Getting Past the ’60s? It’s Not Going to Happen. (from Washington Post)
By Rick Perlstein
Sunday, February 3, 2008; B01

One of the most fascinating notions raised by the current presidential campaign is the idea that the United States can and must finally overcome the divisions of the 1960s. It’s most often associated with the ascendancy of Sen. […]