Social Movements after 1968. Germany, Europe, and Beyond

Social Movements after 1968. Germany, Europe, and Beyond

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Rutgers University Center for European Studies
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Rutgers Universtiy Center for European Studies
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New Brunswick, NJ
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United States
Vom - Bis
07.11.2018 - 09.11.2018
Deadline
01.11.2018
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Belinda Davis (Rutgers), Friederike Brühöfener (Texas - RGV), & Stephen Milder (Groningen)

The conference "Social Movements after 1968: Germany, Europe, and Beyond" will be held at the Rutgers University Center for European Studies (New Brunswick, NJ, USA) from 7-9 November 2018.

On the basis of papers that present concrete cases from “New Social Movements” like the environmental movement, the women’s movement, and the peace movement, to communist groupings and autonomists, we will formulate an historical approach to the social movements of the 1970s and 1980s that challenges the social scientific models typically used to study these movements. We will open new questions about these movements’ protagonists’ ideas of political change and their understanding of identity, the role of leaders in grassroots movements, and the relationship between “single issue movements” and big societal issues. At the same time, we will use the 50th anniversary of 1968 as an opportunity to place the movements of the 1970s and 1980s into a longer historical narrative and to consider how popular politics changed in the postwar period.

If you would like to attend the conference, please register with Tatianna Pasley-Smith via email at pasleytm@rutgers.edu by 1 November 2018.

Programm

Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Location: Academic Building (AB) 6051

6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Keynote Address I

Geoff Eley (University of Michigan) – “Leaving the Borderlands. . . but for Where? 1968 and the New Registers of Political Feeling”
Moderator: Friederike Brühöfener (University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley)

Thursday, November 8, 2018
Location: Academic Building (AB) 6051

10:00 am - 10:30 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks

10:30 am – 12:00 noon
Panel I: Beyond the Single-Issue

Craig Griffiths (Manchester Metropolitan University) – “The Gay Movement in 1970s West Germany: Liberation in its Multi-Dimensional Context”
Susan Colbourn (Yale University) - “Evangelicals, Environmentalists, and the Euromissiles: Anti-Nuclear Activism in the Late Cold War”
David Spreen (University of Michigan) - “No Retreat to ‘Single-Issue’ Politics: West German Maoists and the Zimbabwe African National Union

Commentator: Temma Kaplan (Rutgers University)
Moderator: Jan Kubik (Rutgers University)

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Panel II: All Politics is Glocal

Adam Seipp (Texas A&M University) - “‘One does not casually run over trees in Germany’: Social Movements and the U.S. Military, 1975-89”
Félix A. Jiménez Botta (Boston College) - “Between Solidarity and Human Rights: West German Activists and Latin America’s Cold War, 1973-1990”
Pavla Veselá (University of Prague) - “From the Local to the Global and Back: Remarks on the Czechoslovak Radical Left after August 1968”

Commentator: Stephen Milder (University of Groningen)
Moderator: Ethel Brooks (Rutgers University)

3:30 - 5:00 pm
Panel III: Identities and the Self after 1968

Friederike Brühöfener (University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley) – “The Self, Emotions, and Gender in West German Social Movements”
David Templin (University of Osnabrück) – “Initiative Groups and the Paradigms of Self-Organization and Grass-Roots Democracy in 1970s West Germany”
Freia Anders (University of Mainz) – “Between Protest and Belligerency: The West German Militant Left and the Vietnam War during the Early 1970s”
Commentator: Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University)
Moderator: Dustin Stalnaker (Rutgers University)

6:30 – 8:00 pm
Keynote Address II

Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey (University of Bielefeld) – “New Social Movements and the Role of the Intellectual, 1970s to 2000s”
Moderator: Belinda Davis (Rutgers University)

Friday, November 9, 2018
Location: Van Dyck Hall 301

9:00 – 10:30 am
Panel IV: Hopes, Goals, and New Understandings of Change

Julia Ault (University of Utah) – “Environmental Activism in East Germany: A Local and Transnational Movement under Communism, 1975-1989”
Bernhard Gotto (Institute for Contemporary History, Munich) – “The Best Thing that Remained of 1968? Experiences of Protest and Expectations of Change in the West German Women’s Movement during the 1970s and 1980s”
Michael Hughes (Wake Forest University) - “Conceptions of Democracy and West German NSM Activism”

Commentator: Belinda Davis (Rutgers University)
Moderator: Selin Bengi Gumrukcu (Rutgers University)

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Round Table Discussion: Looking Back into the Future: Post-‘68 and a Longer Historical View

Timothy Brown (Northeastern University)
Belinda Davis (Rutgers University)
Geoff Eley (University of Michigan)
Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey (University of Bielefeld)

Moderator: Stephen Milder (University of Groningen)

Kontakt

Stephen Milder
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

s.h.milder@rug.nl


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