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October 24, 2008<\/p>\n

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(l to r) Daniel J. Sherman, Ann Reynolds, and Noit Banai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The conference continued on Day 2 with a panel discussion, \u201cKnowing 1968: Terms of Engagement (Theory),\u201d which began with a presentation by Judit Bodnar<\/strong> (History, Sociology, Social Anthropology, Central European University). In \u201cWhat\u2019s Left of the Right to the City,\u201d Bodnar drew on the work of Henri Lefebvre to describe the Parisian revolts of 1968 as an appropriation of urban space by workers, students, and minority groups. Recounting the \u201cspectacular counter-spectacle\u201d of protests in Paris and Prague, Bodnar portrayed 1968 as \u201ca moment of revolutionary spontaneity\u201d which has left behind a framework for a radical urban imagination.<\/p>\n

The second speaker, Rose Brewer<\/strong> (African American and African Studies, University of Minnesota), called for a more \u201crobust and complex\u201d scholarship of the time period in her paper, \u201c1968 and the Black Radical Tradition.\u201d Stressing the \u201cintersectionality\u201d of gender, race, class, and sexuality in the black radical tradition, Brewer concluded by calling the current post-Katrina era \u201ca movement-building moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brewer was followed by Bernard Gendron<\/strong> (Philosophy emeritus, UWM), whose talk, \u201cFoucault\u2019s 1968,\u201d described the year as \u201ca period of severe doubt and transformation\u201d for the French philosopher. While 1968 has been described as a \u201ctheoretical dry spell\u201d for Foucault, it also marked his turn to politics, as he became increasingly interested in student uprisings in Tunis and prison conditions. Eventually, Foucault came to see 1968 \u201cmore as a period of rapture where a whole new horizon of politics emerged.\u201d<\/p>\n

The panel concluded with a talk by Richard Langston<\/strong> (German Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill), \u201cTowards a Positive Dialectic: German Theory After Adorno,\u201d which posited the \u201cproblem of the anachronistic\u201d for German students in 1968. Calling the year a void for new theory in Germany, Langston discussed how activists appropriated texts from the Frankfurt School without reinterpreting them in the light of recent events.<\/p>\n

The second panel, \u201cLandscapes of Protest 1: Revisioning Image and Narrative,\u201d first featured Martin Berger<\/strong> (Art and Visual Culture, UC-Santa Cruz), whose paper, \u201cBlack Power, White Power, and the 1968 Olympic Protests,\u201d investigated white reactions to black athletes who raised their fists in protest at the Olympics. Claiming that this protest \u201ctouched on white America in ways that have not been fully explained,\u201d Berger contrasted this defiant image with other iconic photographs that depicted African Americans as passive victims of violence. Berger called the 1968 Olympic moment \u201cthe birth of modern racial identity\u201d in that the athletes asserted their identities as both black and American simultaneously.<\/p>\n

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In her ensuing talk, \u201cPreviously on \u20181968\u2019: Operation Breadbasket and Iconographic Memory in Class\/Race Politics,\u201d Kath Weston<\/strong> (Anthropology, Women and Gender, University of Virginia) recounted her childhood experiences listening to Jesse Jackson\u2019s radio broadcasts and described how influential these broadcasts were to both her personal development and to that of Chicago\u2019s black communities, despite their omission in the mainstream iconographic memory.<\/p>\n

Robert Self<\/strong> (History, Brown) concluded the panel with \u201cBodies Count: 1968 and the Body in American Politics,\u201d which posited that the decade\u2019s conflicts were so contentious because \u201cdestabilized human bodies were at their center.\u201d Citing the violence of the civil rights movement and the war in Vietnam, as well as the success of the women\u2019s rights and gay rights movements in politicizing everyday life, Self asserted that the decade \u201credefined the socially constructed body.\u201d<\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s last panel, \u201cScreenings: 1968, Film and Media,\u201d was kicked off by Carol Siegel<\/strong> (English, WSU-Vancouver), whose talk, \u201cRecovering Connections between Sex Radicalism and the Left: Fighting Fascism on Film in 1968 and Today,\u201d explored the politics of the sexual revolution in recent film. Siegel declared that \u201csex is not the problem, it is the solution,\u201d and revealed how several anti-war films depict \u201csexuality as a means of resisting totalitarianism.\u201d<\/p>\n

The panel then featured Fred Turner<\/strong> (Communications, Stanford), whose lecture, \u201cInformation Technology for Utopia,\u201d traced the origins of cyberculture to the utopian communes of the 1960s. Using The Whole Earth Catalog as an example, Turner showed how the new communalists repurposed cold war technology and laid the foundation for the first virtual communities.<\/p>\n

Julian Bourg<\/strong> (History, Bucknell) delivered the next paper, \u201cTempered Nostalgia in Recent French Films on les Ann\u00e9es 1968,\u201d which compared two recent depictions of the protests of 1968. He claimed that in the aftermath of the year, \u201cculture won and politics lost.\u201d<\/p>\n

The final panelist, Mark Tribe<\/strong> (Modern Culture and Media, Brown), described his attempts to stage and film reenactments of important protest speeches from the decade in his talk, \u201cRhetorics of Resistance: Protest Speech, Public Space, and the Public Sphere.\u201d The day concluded with a screening of a series of six short films by Tribe called Port Huron Project.<\/p>\n

Overview<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Day 1<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Day 2\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Day 3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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