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Since 1968:\u00a0A Center for 21st Century Studies 40th Anniversary Conference<\/strong><\/p>\n

October 23-25, 2008<\/p>\n

If what historians might call a long 1968\u2013the period from the mid-1960s to the early ’70s\u2013gave rise to new epicenters of theory, including original Marxist and feminist paradigms; artistic experimentation and new cultural forms, in music, visual art, and literature; and explosive protest movements around the world, the reaction to these developments arguably had as great a transformative impact on the right as on the left. 1968 has remained a touchstone for activists, artists, and theorists of all stripes, and has taken on new significance at the present moment, which bears certain uncanny resemblances to the earlier time. “Since 1968” especially seeks to explore the uses, in several senses of the term, of 1968 today.<\/p>\n

Thus the conference asks: what are the parallels between the international situation in 1968 and 2008? What versions of 1968 have artists, theorists, and activists made use of in the decades since? To what extent are theoretical paradigms, political and social movements, and artistic practices that emerged or were tested in the fulcrum of 1968 taking on new life now, and how are they adapting to the physical and virtual spaces of the twenty-first century? Discussions of these and related questions will, we hope, lead to reflection on the larger process of recuperation of historical events, cultural production, and theoretical paradigms in various domains.<\/p>\n

Day 1<\/a>
\nDay 2<\/a>
\nDay 3<\/a><\/p>\n

Conference Program<\/strong><\/p>\n

October 23\u201425, 2008
\nconference begins Thursday at 7 pm in the UWM Union Theatre
\n2200 East Kenwood Boulevard<\/p>\n

continues Friday at 9:30 am in Curtin 175
\n3243 North Downer Avenue<\/p>\n

and Saturday at 9 am at the Hefter Conference Center
\n3271 North Lake Drive<\/p>\n

23 October Thursday <\/strong>
\nWelcomes<\/em>
\nScreening<\/em> of Fuses<\/em> (1964-66, 30 min.) and Meat Joy<\/em> (1964, 6 min.)
\nby Carolee Schneemann
\nKeynote: Carolee Schneemann<\/strong> (independent artist): \u201cRemains To Be Seen\u201d<\/p>\n

24 October Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n

Knowing 1968: Terms of Engagement
\n<\/em>Judit Bodnar<\/strong> (Central European University, Budapest)
\n\u201cWhat\u2019s Left of the Right of the City?\u201d
\nRose M. Brewer<\/strong> (Minnesota)
\n\u201c1968 and the Black Radical Tradition\u201d
\nBernard Gendron<\/strong> (UWM, emeritus)
\n“Foucault\u2019s 1968\u201d
\nRichard Langston<\/strong> (UNC-Chapel Hill)
\n\u201cTowards a Positive Dialectic: German Theory After Adorno\u201d
\nModerator: Aneesh Aneesh (UWM)<\/p>\n

Landscapes of Protest 1:\u00a0Revisioning Image and Narrative<\/em>
\nMartin Berger<\/strong> (UC-Santa Cruz)
\n\u201cBlack Power, White Power, and the 1968 Olympic Protests\u201d
\nJacqueline Bixler<\/strong> (Virginia Tech)
\n\u201cOctober 2, 1968, and the Plaza de Tlatelolco: from Fact to Film\u201d
\nKath Weston<\/strong> (Virginia)
\n\u201cPreviously on `1968\u2019: Operation Breadbasket and Iconographic Memory in Class\/Race Politics\u201d
\nRobert Self<\/strong> (Brown)
\n\u201cBodies Count: 1968 and the Body in American Politics\u201d
\nModerator: Jasmine Alinder (UWM)<\/p>\n

Screenings: 1968, Film and Media
\n<\/em>Carol Siegel<\/strong> (WSU-Vancouver)
\n\u201cRecovering Connections between Sex Radicalism and the Left: Fighting Fascism on Film in 1968 and Today\u201d
\nFred Turner<\/strong> (Stanford)
\n\u201cInformation Technology for Utopia\u201d
\nJulian Bourg<\/strong> (Bucknell)
\n\u201cTempered Nostalgia in Recent French Films on les Ann\u00e9es 1968\u201d
\nMark Tribe<\/strong> (Brown)
\n\u201cRhetorics of Resistance: Protest Speech, Public Space, and the Public Sphere\u201d
\nModerator: Joe Austin (UWM)<\/p>\n

Screening<\/em> of Port Huron Project 1-6<\/em>
\nby Mark Tribe<\/p>\n

25 October Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n

Landscapes of Protest 2: New Connections<\/em>
\nJeremi Suri<\/strong> (UW-Madison)
\n\u201cThe Rise and Fall of an International Counterculture in the 1960s\u201d
\nYoshikuni Igarashi<\/strong> (Vanderbilt)
\n\u201cJapan\u2019s Long 1968: Dreaming of Class Warfare in the Age of Mass Consumption\u201d
\nSimon Prince<\/strong> (Oxford)
\n\u201c`We have seen these sort of people at work lately all over the globe\u2019: Northern Ireland and 1968\u201d
\nDina Mahnaz Siddiqi<\/strong> (Independent Scholar)
\n\u201cBangladesh and Nationalism since 1968″
\nModerator: Ruud van Dijk (Amsterdam)<\/p>\n

Keynote: James Ferguson<\/strong> (Stanford)
\n\u201cAn African 1968: Humanism and Invisibility\u201d<\/p>\n

Bodies of Art: 1968 as Turning Point?
\n<\/em>Ann Reynolds (UT-Austin)<\/strong>
\n \u201cComing to th<\/strong>e Sixties\u201d
\nNoit Banai<\/strong> (Tufts)
\n\u201cJouissance in May 68: The Participatory Revolution and The Public of Sensation\u201d
\nMichelle Kuo<\/strong> (Artforum International)
\n\u201cInventing Experiments in Art and Technology\u201d
\nTamara Levitz<\/strong> (UCLA)
\n\u201cThe Effervescent Body in the Cyberage\u201d
\nModerator: Daniel J. Sherman (UNC-Chapel Hill)<\/p>\n

Closing Discussion followed by reception<\/em><\/p>\n

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