1968/2008

Tuesday, May 137:30 pm1968 REVISTED Liberation, Imagination & the Black Panther Party George Katsiaficas, Ashanti Alston Omowali & James PonceContinuing our year-long events series on the 40th anniversary of 1968, we will look at the impact of the Black Panther Party, which inspired thousands to join their movement to transform “the system.” Liberation, Imagination, and the Black […]

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/wrt.html 1968: An International Perspective April 29 – May 14, 2008 “Never mind Funny Girl, Oliver! Or even 2001; if you want a glimpse at this turbulent year in America’s history, check out this program of incendiary dramas, intellectually dense critiques and insightful political docs that looks at the era’s legacy. Burn, baby, burn!” – Time Out New YorkDon’t miss these special events: […]

Conference in Paris at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales:
http://www.arhv.lhivic.org/index.php/2008/05/07/697-colloque-mai-68-regards-sur-les-sciences-sociales

http://artforum.com/inprint/id=19944

The Columbia student newspaper has assembled a huge interactive feature on the ‘68 student uprising at Columbia. The feature includes a timeline, photo slideshow, videos, and about a dozen articles.

A show featuring poster art from May 68 Paris opened at the Hayward Project Space in London on May 1.
According to Hayward:
“The posters of the Paris uprising of May 1968 comprise some of the most brilliant graphic works ever to have been associated with a movement for social and political change. This selection of original […]

This week’s issue of the New Statesman focuses on 1968. The theme is “The Year That Changed Everything,” with contributions from Peter Wilby, Noam Chomsky, Anna Coote, Eric Hobsbawm, and others.
See: http://www.newstatesman.com/subjects/1968

This conference “What is Left of the Latin American Left?” commemorating 1968 happened a few weeks ago in Austin Texas. The conference statement said “The global upheavals of spring 1968 triggered a new era of revolutionary violence in Latin American countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Guatemala.  This interdisciplinary conference, organized to commemorate the […]

We are pleased to announce “1968: A Global Perspective,” an interdisciplinary conference to be held at the University of Texas on October 10th-12th, 2008. This conference is being organized by a group of graduate students and faculty from UT’s Program in Comparative Literature, the Departments of English, Spanish and Portuguese, Anthropology, Music, and several other […]

The Times of India published this Op-Ed by Swapan Dasgupta, in which he follows the lead of French President, Nicolas Sarkozy in saying that the cultural and political legacy of 68 needs to be swept away. It describes a “self-indulgence” of the period that ultimately filled the ranks of the right wing, 40 years later. […]