1968/2008

http://www2.high.org/main.taf?p=3,1,1,6,2
Not sure if we can call this a like-minded effort per se, but it is about a more complex understanding of legacy - not just nostalgia.

The cinema rises
Friday 21 Mars 2008
Years 68
The single place invites the people which miss for Night 68

We do not commemorate 68, us did not know 68. We have only the nostalgia of the future. Happening and total art, insurrectionary militancy and revolutionary homosexual face, black power and radical feminism will compose a cinematographic […]

SDS screening: Brother Outsider: Bayard Rustin Mon. 4/21 7PM Stuart 105
 
Monday, April 21, 2008, 7PM
University of Chicago
Stuart Hall, 5835 S. Greenwood Ave. room 105
UChicago Students for a Democratic Society and the Platypus Affiliated
Society present a film screening-discussion:
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (2003)
with John D’Emilio, author of Lost Prophet: the life and […]

This amazing collection of resources “1968 in Europe - A History of Protest and Activism, 1956-77“  for teachers has just become available, with extensive information online.

The Brecht Forum in NYC recently hosted a discussion with Autumn Brown, Max Elbaum, RJ Maccani & Ai-Jen Poo entitled “1968 Revisited: Prospects for a More Coherent Left” about current organizational forms. Brecht forum has been hosting an ongoing series of events “1968 Revisited” that are quite exciting and ambitious.
Here is the audio from this […]

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 […]

“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 […]