1968/2008

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

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 […]

This massive cultural event in London is a city-wide exploration of the legacy of 68. The program states: “All Power to the Imagination! 1968 and Its Legacies marks the creative resistance of a remarkable year, while placing its lessons in the context of our own times. From April to June and across London, this major […]

‘Let Freedom Ring’ Art and Democracy in the King Years 1954 – 1968
A Lannan Literary Symposium & Festival
Georgetown University
April 15, 16, 17 2008
By sweeping away legal segregation in the public sphere, and especially by securing the right to participate in the democratic franchise for people of color, the Civil Rights Movement fundamentally changed American life. […]

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 […]