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

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

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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.

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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 posters coincides with The Hayward’s 40th birthday and celebrates the vibrant activist graphics and revolutionary spirit of summer 1968.The exhibition is curated by Johan Kugelberg in collaboration with The Hayward curatorial team and Jeff Boardman, Creative Director of Freewheelin’.”

Samples from the show are here. The gallery is also displaying photographs by Bruno Barbey of the May 68 demonstration. A limited edition catalog accompanies the show. (Printed in an edition of 68, the catalog is manufactured, according to the Hayward, “using methods from the 1968 era.”)

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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

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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 40th anniversary of those events, seeks to explore what remains of those movements, how they evolved, disappeared, or became neutralized, and what legacy, if any, remains of them in Latin America today.”

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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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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. The problem with this kind of critique is that it tends to negate all of the history that came before, as if the generation of 68 just woke up and made the world fucked up and the Left in fragments. 1968 cannot be plucked or isolated from the years or decades prior, just as its connection to today cannot be dismissed.

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The President Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum in Austin Texas is releasing over 600 hours of tapes from throughout 1968, LBJs last year in office. He comments candidly on the war in Vietnam and about the police riots in Chicago. More news here.

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The middle east wide english news outlet, Dar Hal Hayat, published an op-ed by Elias Harfoush on the legacy og 68. While the text focuses almost entirely on the political legacy in France and England, it ends with an ambiguous message about the effects of 68 throughout the middle east.

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