Published on Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Abstract
1968 was a year of offensives, uprisings, and demonstrations against capitalism and imperialism, for liberation and emancipation and the war in Vietnam was its epicenter. The events claimed many victories for democracy, equality, and emancipation, but also provoked deep, abiding repression. A counterfeit history has subsequently erased police violence and the deaths of participants, removed workers, women, students, and indigenous peoples from the picture, and eliminated anti-Americanism, anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, as well as the profound influences of the wars and interventions in Algeria, Latin America, and Vietnam. “Global 68” will retrieve the aspirations, energies, memories, and histories of this worldwide movement and offer hope to a new generation of activists.
Announcement
Presentation
Global ‘68 is a linked set of conferences, organized by Françoise Vergès, Marcus Rediker, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, and Sylvie Robic, sponsored by the Collège d'études mondiales, the University of Pittsburgh, Birkbeck, University of London, and the University of Nanterre, to be held in Paris May 2-4 and London May 5-6, 2018.
Both events will focus on the movements and major shifts in politico-cultural sensibilities around the world that made 1968 such an extraordinary year. Three notions are central to our approach: solidarity in alliances, global history, and history from below.
Programme
68 and Global Struggles
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
FMSH, 54 Bd Raspail, Paris 75006 | Free entry
3:00-3:30 pm
Welcome
Laëtitia Atlani-Duault, Director of Collège d'études mondiales
Opening
- Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh
- Françoise Vergès, Collège d'études mondiales
3:30-4:30 pm Keynote I
- Peter Linebaugh, Toledo
Global ’68: An Historical Perspective
Moderated by Marcus Rediker
Break
5:00-6:30 pm Global 68: Struggles in Vietnam, North Africa and the Americas
- Philippe Peycam, Leiden
Ephemeral: Empathy, identification and Consciousness – Vietnam, the War, and the Protest Movements in 1968
- Ronald Judy, Pittsburgh
Fanon and the significance of Radical Black Internationalism to 1968: From Tunis to Oakland to Algiers
- Robyn C. Spencer, City University of New York,
The Black Panther Party and Black Power Internationalism
- Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Birkbeck
On Revolution and Global ‘68
Moderated by Maboula Soumahoro
6:30-7:30 pm Keynote II
- Lewis Gordon, Connecticut
Thinking Politically against Moralism: Demystifying the Right and the Left in Light of 1968, 2018, and Beyond
Moderated by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
Racism, Third World, Feminism and Contemporary Struggles
Thursday, May 3 2018
Amphitheater François Furet | EHESS, 105 Bd Raspail, Paris 75006 | Free entry
9:30-10:30 am Achille Mbembe and Vijay Prashad in conversation
Moderated by Françoise Vergès, Collège d'études mondiales
10:30 am-12:00 Global 68: Race, Migrations, Third World, Feminism
- Luis Martinez Andrade, Collège d’études mondiales
The puppet and the dwarf: liberation Christianity and Global '68
- Mireille Fanon Mendes-France, Fondation Franz Fanon
On racism and ‘68
- Vincent Gay, University Paris VII
May 68: The Beginning of the Migrant Workers’ Long Battle
- Silvia Federici, Hofstra
“Change your life, Change the World”: a Feminist Perspective on 1968
Moderated by Alexis Nuselovici (Nouss), Collège d'études mondiales
Break
1:30-2:30 pm Keynote III
- Kristin Ross, NYU
The '68 Years and the ‘Wind from the West’
Moderated by Françoise Vergès, Collège d'études mondiales
2:30-4:15 pm New Struggles in France
- Carpanin Marimoutou, Reunion Island
Anticolonialist and Anticapitalist Struggles in Indian Ocean Southwest, 1968
- Norman Ajari, Toulouse Jean Jaurès
The Wisdom of Riots: Guy Debord on Watts 1965 and Paris 1968
- Gerty Dambury,
May 68, you’re saying? No, May 67
- Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint-Denis
Congo - June 1969
- Nacira Guénif-Souilamas, Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint-Denis
Building Coalitions Against All Odds
Moderated by Geoffrey Pleyers, Collège d'études mondiales
Thursday, May 3 2018
Nanterre-Amandiers, Centre Dramatique National, 7 Avenue Pablo Picasso, 92000 Nanterre | Inscription required
8:00 pm Solidarity and alliances
Angela Davis and Tariq Ali in conversation
Moderated by Françoise Vergès and Marcus Rediker
Political and Artistic Expressions of Contest, 68 and after?
Friday, May 4, 2018
University of Nanterre, Théâtre Bernard-Marie Koltès, Allée de l'Université, 92000 Nanterre | Free entry
Morning Cinema
9:00-9:15am Opening
- Sylvie Robic, Paris Nanterre University
9h15-12h45 Années de rêve, années de plomb ? Intersecting views: documentary/fiction, Germany/Italy/France
Moderated by Marielle Silhouette, Paris Nanterre University, Pierre Gras, Paris Diderot University and Sylvie Robic, Paris Nanterre University
Panel discussion German cinema: rebel pictures, political views
Max Linz, filmmaker, Jean-Gabriel Périot, filmmaker, Matthias Steinle, Paris 3 University, Claire Kaiser, Bordeaux-Montaigne University, Pierre Gras, Paris Diderot University and Marielle Silhouette, Paris Nanterre University
Panel discussion Italian cinema: "Maintenant, ensemble, sans frais. Zavattini, Pasolini, Grifi et les autres..."
Marco Bertozzi, filmmaker, Universita IUAV-Venezia, Alessandro Stella, EHESS, Federico Lancialonga, Paris 1 University and Laurence Schifano, Paris Nanterre University
Panel discussion French cinema: Film May '68 : the cinematographic experience of the ARC group (1968-2018)
Jacques Kébadian, filmmaker, Michel Andrieu, filmmaker, Sylvain Dreyer, Pau et des pays de l’Adour University and Sébastien Layerle, Sorbonne nouvelle-Paris 3 University (Ircav)
Panel discussion: Cinema/politics: intersecting views?
Break
Afternoon Litterature
2:15-5:45pm Carte blanche to Jean-Pierre Martin: Year 68, language unbind. Six feverish youth may be not soothed.
Moderated by Laurence Campa, Paris Nanterre University, Dominique Viart, Paris Nanterre University and Jean-Pierre Martin, writer, Lyon-2 University
Three interviews and reading
Litterature and/or politics?
Jean-Pierre Martin and Jean-Claude Pinson
"Nous qui sommes sans passé, les femmes, nous qui n'avons pas d'histoire"
Geneviève Brisac and Juliette Kahane
After '68 or the come back of "I"
Gérard Guégan and Jean-Pierre Le Dantec
6:45-9:30pm 1968-2018: In highschools, girls and boys investigate and testify thanks to pictures
Three movies and debates
Presented by Alain Bocquet, Société d’histoire de Nanterre (SHN)
Introduction: 1968' a liberation of expression
Sébastien Layerle, Sorbonne nouvelle-Paris 3 University (Ircav)
1979-1982 Et chez toi qui fait quoi ? Documentary-fiction about the domestic work of teenagers, 1979-1982.
Realised by Super 8 workshop of Joliot-Curie de Nanterre highschool.
Screening of the movie (24 minutes), restored copy by BDIC
Two movies realised in 2018 by students from the professional highschool of Prony d’Asnières et Joliot-Curie de Nanterre highschool
Presentation and screening of Film réalisé à Asnières (10 mn)
Realised with the help of AFEV students. Coordinator Sophie Roussel (AFEV) with the technical and pedagological support of Cynthia Delbart, filmaker, teacher associated to the Performance arts department of Paris Nanterre University.
Presentation and screening of Film réalisé à Nanterre (10 mn)
Realised by Première STMG class, under the supervision of Marion Denis, history teacher, with the support of M. Quesney, highschool principal advisor conseiller principal d’éducation and Henry Fallot et Gaël Mordant (Nanterre Cityhall).
General discussion
Animated by Alain Bocquet
Saturday, May 5, 2018
Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, London | Inscription required
3:00-5:30 pm Cinema echoes of 68
Screening of Ken McMullen’s An Organization of Dreams (2010)
Followed by a Q&A with the director
Break
6:00-6:30 pm Opening/Funk ’68
Third Funk Manifesto: Reading/Performance by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera with Kojo Koram and Leticia Paes
6:30-7:30 pm Keynote I
- Françoise Vergès, Collège d'études mondiales
Political Antiracist Feminism Then and Now
Introduced by Marcus Rediker and moderated by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
Sunday, May 6, 2018
Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, London | Inscription required
9:30-10:30 am Enrique Dussel and Lewis R. Gordon in conversation
Moderated by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
10:30 am-12:00 Global ’68: Race, Class & Feminisms
- Mireille Fanon Mendès-France, Fondation Franz Fanon
On racism and ‘68
- Ash Sarkar, Novara Media
On Political Theory, Gender and Race after ‘68
- Brenna Bhandar, SOAS
On race, gender, class and property since ‘68”
Moderated by Gail Lewis
Break
1:30-2:30 pm Keynote II
- Silvia Federici, Hofstra
’Change your life, Change the World”: a Feminist Perspective on 1968
Moderated by Jacqueline Rose
Break
3:00-4:30 pm Global ’68 & Revolution, 50 years on
- Ronald Judy, Pittsburgh
Fanon and the significance of Radical Black Internationalism to 1968: From Tunis to Oakland to Algiers
- Robyn C. Spencer, Lehman College, CUNY
The Black Panther Party and Black Power Internationalism
- Kristin Ross, NYU
The '68 Years and the Wind from the West
- Enrique Dussel, UAM
1968: Tlatelolco and El Cordobazo, Origins of Liberation Philosophy & Theology
Moderated by Kojo Koram
4:30-5:30 pm Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker in conversation
Moderated by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
5:30-7:30 pm Tariq Ali and Vijay Prashad in conversation
Moderated by Lewis R. Gordon
Subjects
- Political studies (Main category)
- Society > Sociology
- Society > Political studies > Political and social movements
- Society > History > Women's history
- Society > History
- Society > History > Social history
- Society > Sociology > Sociology of culture
Places
- EHESS | 3 mai 2018 - 105 boulevard Raspail
Paris, France (75006) - Théâtre Bernard-Marie Koltès | 4 mai 2018 - Allée de l'Université
Nanterre, France (92) - Birkbeck, University of London | 5 et 6 mai 2018 - Male Street, Londres
London, Britain
Date(s)
- Wednesday, May 02, 2018
- Thursday, May 03, 2018
- Friday, May 04, 2018
- Saturday, May 05, 2018
- Sunday, May 06, 2018
Keywords
- 1968, mai 68, luttes sociales, transformation, histoire globale, solidarité
Reference Urls
Information source
- Thaïs de Rodez
courriel : tderodez [at] msh-paris [dot] fr
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« Global '68 - Solidarity in Alliance and Global History », Lecture series, Calenda, Published on Tuesday, April 24, 2018, https://doi.org/10.58079/102n
