Belinda Davis (Rutgers), Friederike Brühöfener (Texas - RGV), & Stephen Milder (Groningen)
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)