Conference Schedule

Thursday, March 8

4:30 p.m. - Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center

• Welcome and Introduction:  Tamar Mayer

4:45-6:00 p.m.
Session 1:  Keynote Address

• The Ambiguous Consequences of Failed Revolutions  
  Todd Gitlin, Columbia University

6:15-7:00 p.m.
Dinner in the RAJ House conference room

7:00–8:30 p.m. - RAJ House conference room

Session 2:  Race and Protest at Columbia and beyond

Moderator: Michael Kramer, Digital Liberal Arts
Chair: Vignesh Ramachandran ‘18

• 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

Friday, March 9 - RAJ House conference room

12:15–2:15 p.m.
Session 3:  Icons, Identity, and Liberation

Moderator: J Finley, American Studies Program
Chair: Laura Dillon ‘19

• Mourning King: Memory, black rage, and the shaping of Black Power 
  Lisa Corrigan, University of Arkansas
   
• A New Storm against Imperialism:  Global Maoism and communism in Southeast Asia before and after 1968:  Matthew Galway, University of California, Berkeley
   
• Chile during the Late 60s: The road to the democratic revolution of 1970
  Fernando Camacho Padilla, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
   
• Rebuilding the Puzzle:  Cameroonian cultural construction from 1968 to the present:  Estelle Kouokam Magne, Catholic University of Central Africa, Cameroon 

2:45–4:15 p.m.
Session 4:  Acting Out the Struggle

Moderator: Darién Davis, Department of History
Chair: Isabella Mauceri ‘20.5

• Acting Out: Performative politics in the age of the New Left and the counterculture 
  Andrew Hannon, University of Massachusetts, Boston
   
• The Variants of 1968 Radicalism:  Ousmane Sembene and Larisa Shepitko  Elena Razlogova, Concordia University, Canada
   
• Performing Gender in the “Anos de Chumbo”:  Identity, ambiguity and counterculture 
  Jorge Caê Rodrigues, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 

4:45–6:00 p.m.
Session 5:  Mexico City! Scripts of Resistance

Moderator: Nadia Horning, Department of Political Science
Chair: Julian Schlemmer ‘20

• 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

Saturday, March 10 - RAJ House conference room

9:00–10:45 a.m.
Session 6:  Revolutionary Fatigue

Moderator: Maggie Clinton, Department of History
Chair: Karlo Škarica ‘17

• What Happens When We Stop Dreaming?  Accounting for the waning of post-independence radicalism 
  Duane Edwards, University of the West Indies

• May ’68 and the Politicization of Younger Generations in France Today 
  Anne Muxel, Sciences Po, France
   
• From Liberation to Recuperation: The legacy of Paris 1968 on Seattle 1999 
  Jamie McCallum, Middlebury College

11:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Conference Summary