Friday, August 2006
2.00 Welcome: Prof. Detlef Junker (HCA, University of Heidelberg)
2.15 Organizer’s Welcome: Martin Klimke (HCA, Heidelberg)
Joachim Scharloth (German Department, Zürich)
Section 1: Origins & Leftist Traditions
Chair: Joachim Scharloth (German Department, Zürich)
2.15 “Out of Apathy”: The British New Left
Holger Nehring (St. Peter’s College, Oxford University)
3.05 The PCF and the Impasse of Detente: The Impossibility of a Revolutionary Strategy in France in 1968
Maud Bracke (Department of History, Glasgow)
3.45 The Left and the Nation in Denmark and Sweden, 1956-1980
Thomas Jorgensen (Kopenhagen)
4.25 Coffee
Section 2: Activist Role Models & Their Adaptations
Chair: Wilfried Mausbach (HCA, Universität Heidelberg)
4.50 Mediatisation of Provo: The Image Game (1965-1967)
Niek Pas (Institute for Media Studies, Amsterdam University)
5.30 “Indiani Metropolitani” and “Stadtindianer”:
Representing Autonomy in Italy and West-Germany
Sebastian Haumann (History Department, University of Düsseldorf)
6.15 Dinner
8.00 Keynote Address:
The European 1960/70s and the World: The Case of Régis Debray
Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey (History Department, University of Bielefeld)
Discussion with K.D. Wolff (Frankfurt)
Saturday, August 26
Section 3: Eastern Europe I
Chair: Philipp Gassert (HCA, Heidelberg)
9.00 1968 in Yugoslavia – Student Revolt between East and West
Boris Kanzleiter (Institute for Eastern European Studies, Free University Berlin)
9.40 Unity in Diversity - World Youth Festival, Sofia, 1968
Gyula Virag (University of Eötvös Lorand, Budapest)
10.20 Coffee
Section 4: Eastern Europe II
Chair: Birgit Hofmann (Department of Political Science, Universität Freiburg)
10.50 Language of Protest or Protest of Language? Student Movement in Czechoslovakia of the 1960s
Zdenek Nebrensky (Faculty of Humanities, Charles-University, Prague)
11.30 Ceausescu’s First Balcony Scene: August 21, 1968, in Romanian Media
Corina Petrescu (Institute for Advanced Study, New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania)
12.10 Greece and Spain in the 1960s
Kostis Kornetis (History Department, European University, Florence)
12.50 Lunch Break
Section 5: Recontextualization of Protest Cultures
Chair: Beate Kutschke (Institute for New Music, University of Arts, Berlin)
2.30 Shifting Boundaries: Concepts and Symptoms of Transnational Identification and Disassociation in the Language of the German Student Movement of 1968
Andreas Rothenhöfer (Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim)
3.00 A Tale of Two Revolts: “1968” in Divided Germany
Timothy Brown (History Department, Northeastern University, Boston)
3.40 Prague – Paris via East- and West-Berlin: East German Literature as the Seismograph of a European Protest Movement
Susanne Rinner (Department of German, Georgetown University, Washington)
4.20 Coffee
Section 6: European Perspectives on Terrorism in the 1970s
Chair: Martin Klimke (HCA, Heidelberg)
5.20 Hijacking As Politics: Strategic and Symbolic Surplus in the Cold War Era
Annette Vowinckel (Kulturwissenschaftliches Seminar, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin)
6.00 The 1970s RAF Solidarity Movement from a European Perspective
Jacco Pekelder (Duitsland Institute, Amsterdam University)
6.40 Adjourn
For more detailed abstracts see: http://www.ifk-protestbewegungen.de/html/program.html
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