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