Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

Conference Summary

Available via livestream

Session 6: Revolutionary Fatigue

Session 5: Mexico City! Scripts of Resistance

From Raising a Fist in 1968 to Taking a Knee in 2016: How US media discourses frame African-American athletes’ calls for racial justice: Shannon O’Sullivan, Green Mountain College Mexican Transition(s) and Youth Political Engagement after 1968 in Mexico City: Nicholas Crane, University of Wyoming
Available via livestream

Session 4: Acting Out the Struggle

Session 3: Icons, Identity, and Liberation

Session 2: Race and Protest at Columbia and Beyond

Black Power at Columbia, 1968:  Stephen Donadio, Middlebury College “Two, three, many Columbias” or One Too Many San Francisco States?  Remembering the 1968 student protests:  Linus Owens, Middlebury College Available via livestream

The lecture is preceded by a dinner at 6:15. All are welcome to attend.

Keynote Address:The Ambiguous Consequences of Failed Revolutions by Todd Gitlin Columbia University

Middle East Policy Lecture “From Afghanistan to Iraq and Syria: The failures of US Middle East Policy” by Ahmed Rashid, journalist; author of “The Resurgence of Central Asia: Islam or Nationalism” and “Descent into Chaos.” The Middle East Policy Lecture Series aims to promote a more nuanced understanding of contemporary politics, economics, and security in the Middle East.

The series is generously funded by the Aronson Foundation.

Available via livestream

Future of the Past series round table “Marx and the Modern Economist” with Amanda Gregg, Leila Davis, and Joao de Souza, assistant professors of economics, Middlebury College. Celebrating 150th anniversary of “Das Kapital.”