1968/2008

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 departments, centers, and programs at UT.  To commemorate this important anniversary, and to take part in an international conversation about 1968, we have invited several distinguished keynote speakers, including the political philosopher Michael Hardt, co-author of Empire; the legal theorist and former Black Panther Kathleen Cleaver; and the renowned novelist Elena Poniatowska, author of the 1971 sensation La Noche de Tlatelolco.  As a prelude to the conference, we also hope to bring Daniel Ellsberg, author of The Pentagon Papers, the book that changed the course of the Vietnam War.

This year’s event is a larger and more interdisciplinary version of the annual Comparative Literature Graduate Conference.  This fall we hope to include more faculty, as well as graduate students.  We are inviting your participation in this conference. As our focus is global, we wish to include papers that address a broad spectrum of issues pertaining to 1968, that year of momentous transformations.  We ask you to share our call for papers with your faculty, graduate students and graduate coordinator.  The deadline for abstracts is June 15th, 2008.

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