[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: 1968: Global Resistance and Local Knowledge (grad) (4/15/06;
11/3/06-11/4/06)
Sule Tarakcioglu
suletar@kulturad.org
Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:35:52 +0200
From: "Cheryl C. Oestreicher" <coestrei@drew.edu>
1968: Global Resistance and Local Knowledge
Graduate Student Conference
Modern History and Literature Program
Casperson School of Graduate Studies, Drew University
November 3-4, 2006
Email: 68hist@drew.edu
Website: http://groups.drew.edu/68hist
Within the emergent field of 1960s studies, there is a widespread consensus
concerning the global significance of 1968. Scholarly interest in this year
stems foremost from its many revolutionary eruptions and repercussions,
including the radical urban uprisings of French and German youth; the
revolt-induced invasion of Czechoslovakia by Soviet forces; the activist
phase
of the Chinese Cultural Revolution; and other uprisings in Mexico City and
Tokyo. Other events of historic magnitude include the Tet offensive,
violence at
the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the student takeover of
Columbia
University, and the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert
Kennedy.
Recent academic discussions of 1968 have focused upon the question of its
systemic significance. Were the wide-ranging instances of social unrest that
erupted throughout this year the manifestations of a global zeitgeist,
conditioned or at least influenced by macro-economic and geopolitical
forces?
Contrarily, were these phenomena the outgrowth of primarily local and
unrelated
conditions? Or does a satisfying conclusion require a partial synthesis
of both
these possibilities?
The Drew University Modern History and Literature Program Graduate Student
Conference on 1968 will attempt to explore this question from a number of
different angles. Areas of interest include:
� Geographies of Protest: rebel energies in Western and Eastern
Europe,
North and Latin America, China and Southeast Asia.
� Gender Trouble: radical transformations in gender relations and
sexual identity; the women's movement; gay and lesbian rights activism.
� Protest and Print Culture: pamphlets, manifestoes, plays, the
underground press, literature, posters, graphic novels, and
�comix.�
� Popular Culture and the Media Massage:
cross-referential/interdisciplinary investigations into film, music,
television,
advertising, fashion, and �pop-art.�
� Political Ideologies: Marxism, Maoism, anarchism, the Frankfurt
School, Situationism, internationalism, anti-colonialism, liberalism,
the roots
of contemporary conservatism.
� Theoretical Explorations: the rise and fall of Marxism, the
universal
vs. the local intellectual, post-structuralist stirrings, anticipations of
globalization.
� Counter-cultures: hippies, Yippies, Diggers, Provos , communards,
enragés, happenings, undergrounds, scenes.
� Technology: Future Shock; cybernetics and informatics; from
Haight-Ashbury to Silicon Valley; the birth of the digital revolution.
� Religion: liberation theology; priests, pastors, and protest;
journeys East and West; origins of New Age religion; the roots of
contemporary
fundamentalisms.
The papers need not be limited to the areas and topics listed above, nor the
year 1968 as such. Rather, we encourage the creative combination of two
or more
areas of interest, as well as attempts to theorize the connection between
various events, logics, and genres.
Those submitting paper proposals should be graduate students, post-docs,
or very
recent Ph.D.'s. Please submit a one-page abstract of your paper with your
affiliation and contact information by snail mail or email to:
Cheryl Oestreicher, Conference Chair
Drew-CM 1124
36 Madison Avenue
Madison , NJ 07940
USA
68hist@drew.edu
Keynote Speaker: Jeremy Suri, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin
� Madison. Author of Power and Protest: Global
Revolution and
the Rise of Détente (Harvard) and The Global Revolutions of 1968 (Norton,
forthcoming).
Special Presenter: Mark Rudd, leader of the 1968 Columbia University
strike and
occupation; National Secretary of Students for a Democratic Society;
co-founder
of the Weather Underground.
Faculty Sponsor: Jeremy Varon, Professor of History, Drew University.
Author of
Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and
Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies (California ).
Drew University is located in Madison New Jersey, thirty miles from New York
City . A commuter train runs from Madison to Penn Station in less than
an hour.
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