Next, Yoshikuni Igarashi<\/strong> (History, East Asian Studies, Vanderbilt), showed how unprecedented economic growth in Japan shifted politics and culture in the country. His talk, \u201cJapan\u2019s Long 1968: Dreaming of Class Warfare in the Age of Mass Consumption,\u201d detailed how a more equitable distribution of wealth transformed Japanese culture by narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas and increasing television consumption.<\/p>\n His talk was followed by that of Simon Prince<\/strong> (History, Oxford), who explained how Northern Ireland was part of a worldwide revolt in 1968. Entitled, \u201c\u2018We have seen these sort of people at work lately all over the globe\u2019: Northern Ireland and 1968,\u201d Prince\u2019s paper outlined how activists confronted imperialism locally and internationally.<\/p>\n [metaslider id=2048]<\/p>\n Finally, Dina Mahnaz Siddiqi<\/strong> (independent scholar), in her presentation, \u201cBangladesh and Nationalism Since 1968\u201d posited that the year has \u201cno immediately apparent relevancy\u201d for South Asia. Siddiqi, in an attempt to \u201cprovincialize and decenter 1968,\u201d claimed that the year was mediated through very specific power relations, using state coercion and the policies of international aid organizations as examples.<\/p>\n James Ferguson<\/strong> (Anthropology, Stanford) delivered the conference\u2019s second keynote address, \u201cAn African 1968: Humanism and Invisibility\u201d to a standing-room-only crowd on Saturday. In an effort to bring Africa out of the \u201cglobal shadows\u201d of 1968 and \u201cdisrupt the euro-centrism of the conception of the 1960s,\u201d Ferguson insisted that places regarded as peripheral (such as central Africa) played key roles in the broader phenomenon that we know as \u201cthe sixties.\u201d Focusing on Zambia and its neighbors, Ferguson traced the development of an \u201cAfrican socialism\u201d that \u201cput the human at the center of all things\u201d and drew on indigenous notions of cooperation. Ferguson drew stark contrasts between this idealized notion of African humanism and the reality of the brutal dictatorships of the time. Central to Ferguson\u2019s argument was \u201cthe principle of simultaneous visibility,\u201d in which a second, invisible world acts in conjunction with a visible reality. A lively 45-minute discussion session concluded Ferguson\u2019s keynote.<\/p>\n After lunch, the conference reconvened for the panel, \u201cBodies of Art: 1968 as Turning Point?\u201d which started with a lecture by Ann Reynolds<\/strong> (Art and Art History, UT-Austin) titled, \u201cArtistic Practice and New York Film Culture, 1945-1970: Toward a New Historiography of Radical Art.\u201d Calling 1968 \u201ca fetish\u201d among art historians, Reynolds provided a broader history, tracing a vibrant avant-garde film culture back to the 1930s.<\/p>\n Next, Noit Banai<\/strong> (Art History, Tufts) gave her talk, \u201cJouissance in May 1968: The Participatory Revolution and the Public of Sensation,\u201d which described \u201cthe new art and the new urban experience\u201d brought about by the May 1968 Parisian revolts. Banai argued that the historic conditions of the year caused an agitation of the normative public order, leaving behind a different construction of the body.<\/p>\n Banai was followed by Michelle Kuo<\/strong> (Artforum International), whose lecture, \u201cInventing Experiments in Art and Technology\u201d described collaborations between artists and engineers that enabled the breakdown of the traditional boundaries between artist and audience and added elements of uncertainty and risk to art.<\/p>\n The panel concluded with Tamara Levitz<\/strong> (Musicology, UCLA), whose talk, \u201cThe Effervescent Body in the Cyberage,\u201d discussed student reactions to online clips of music and performance art from the 1960s. Describing Jimi Hendrix, Lindsay Lohan, and President Roosevelt as \u201call curiously equal on YouTube,\u201d Levitz urges her students to reinsert the body into the act of watching.<\/p>\n In a final discussion moderated by Sherman, participants ambitiously attempted to reach closure. Fortunately, the discussion will continue on paper, as work is now underway on a \u201cSince 1968\u201d book manuscript for the Center\u2019s book series, 21st Century Studies, with Indiana University Press. The Center would like to thank Union Cinema, Union Art Gallery, Vilas Trust, and the Film Department for their help in making the conference a success.<\/p>\n Overview<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Day 1<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Day 2<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Day 3<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 25, 2008 The conference convened for a final day on October 25 at the Hefter Conference Center. 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