This conference aims to explore the history of students through their regional, religious, national and international organisations in the second half of the twentieth century. The aim is to examine the student agency through the analysis of their social profile, the forms of material or symbolic compensation for their commitment, and the circulation of knowledge about the economic and social situation of the students.

Presentation

This conference aims to explore the history of students through their regional, religious, national and international organisations in the second half of the twentieth century. The aim is to examine the student agency through the analysis of their social profile, the forms of material or symbolic compensation for their commitment, and the circulation of knowledge about the economic and social situation of the students.

Programme

Thursday, 20 November

9.00-10.30 Students Against Dictatorship and Socio-Economic Inequalities

Discussant : Franziska Zaugg

• Ioannis Brigkos, University of Vienna, Students, Surveillance, and Solidarity : Greek Anti-Junta Activism in Austria during the Cold War
• Daniel Canales Ciudad, University of Girona, “Other Third Worlds on your doorstep” : Student volunteering and the discovery of underdevelopment in Franco’s Spain
• Patrick Smylie, University of Westminster, Unlikely Allies : Students and Working-Class Youth Mobilisation in late 1940s Dublin

11.00-12.30 Anti-Imperialism in the Global 1960s

Discussant : Mikuláš Pešta

• Vincenzo Colaprice, University Roma Tre, An Imagined Community of Anti-Imperialist Youth ? The WFDY and Transnational Student Activism in the Global 1960s
• Guadalupe Seia, University of Buenos Aires and Nayla Pis Diez, University of La Plata, Universities as Battlegrounds : Student Movement against Cultural Imperialism in Latin America during the Cold War (1960s–1970s)
• Amirpasha Tavakkoli, Sciences Po Toulouse, A Forgotten History : Confederation of Iranian Students and the “Making of Global 1968”

14.30-16.00 Foreign Students : Mobility and Cold War Internationalism

Discussant : Lidia Lesnykh

• Jules Siran, University of Geneva, Activist or Reluctant Internationalism ? The Hungarian Communist Youth Union and the Reception of Foreign Students (1960s–1990s)
• Lucie Lamy, Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam, West German Student Associations, Mobile Students and the Global Cold War
• Derya Bozat, University of Bern, Red Island, Red East : Malagasy Students in the Soviet Union, 1975–1991 

17.30-18.45 Keynote conference of James Mark, University of Exeter

“Racing” Eurasia : Communist Internationalism and Student Mobility since the 1950s

Friday, 21 November

9.00-10.30 Student Activism in France : Transnational Perspective

Discussant : Robi Morder

• Ombeline Bois, University Paul Valéry Montpellier, Vietnamese Student Organisations in France (1955-1975) : Navigating Diasporic Diplomacy and Transnational Struggles
• Sara Legrandjacques, Sorbonne University, Between French Walls : Organising Indian Students at the Maison de l’Inde, late 1960s-early 1990s
• Annalise Walkama, University of Idaho, The Corsican Vacation : A Social History of Deported Refugee Students During the 1960 Soviet State Visit to France

10.45-12.00 Keynote Konstantin Katsakioris

“Nationalism and Ethnic Conflicts among African Students in the Soviet Union”

 13.15-14.15 Student Media as a Space of Mobilisation

Discussant : Matthieu Gillabert

• Janik Hollnagel, Lisa-Frederike Seidler, Freie Universität Berlin, Conflict and Collaboration. Students at the Freie Universität Berlin (FU) in the 1980s
• Maxime Dulau, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Students of Atlanta in the Midst of the Sixties and the Rise of Radical Feminism : A Local Evolution Around a National Cause 

14.15-14.30 Conclusions

The exhibition Student Internationalism, prepared by the members of the SNSF project “From Student Internationalism to Erasmus. Globalisation and Europeanisation of Student Life since 1945”, will be opened at the University of Fribourg on 17 November, International Student Day, and will remain on campus until 5 December.

The exhibition aims to connect students across several generations. It approaches students’ lives and activities outside the classroom through their visual cultures, such as posters, magazine covers, catalogues, and photographs. The inauguration and the commented visit will take place on 20 November at 14.00