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BETWEEN THE ‘PRAGUE SPRING’ AND THE ‘FRENCH MAY’:
TRANSNATIONAL EXCHANGE AND NATIONAL RECONTEXTUALIZATION
OF PROTEST CULTURES IN 1960/70S EUROPE
3RD CONFERENCE
OF THE INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH FORUM PROTEST MOVEMENTS (IFK)
Date: August 25-27, 2006
Location: Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg
Conveners: Martin Klimke, History Department, University of Heidelberg
Joachim Scharloth, German Department, University of Zurich
Preliminary Program
Friday, August 25, 2006
2.00 Welcome: Prof. Detlef Junker (HCA, University of Heidelberg)
2.15 Organizer’s Welcome: Martin Klimke (HCA, Heidelberg),
Joachim Scharloth (German Department, Zürich)
Section 1: Origins & Leftist Traditions
Chair: Joachim Scharloth (German Department, Zürich)
2.15 “Out of Apathy”: The British New Left
Holger Nehring (Department of History, University of Sheffield)
3.05 The PCF and the Impasse of Detente: The Impossibility of a Revolutionary
Strategy in France in 1968
Maud Bracke (Department of History, Glasgow)
3.45 The Left and the Nation in Denmark and Sweden, 1956-1980
Thomas Jorgensen (Kopenhagen)
4.25 Coffee
Section 2: Eastern Europe I
Chair: Alexander Vazansky (HCA, Heidelberg)
4.50 1968 in Yugoslavia – Student Revolt between East and West
Boris Kanzleiter (Institute for Eastern European Studies, Free University Berlin)
5.30 Unity in Diversity - World Youth Festival, Sofia, 1968
Gyula Virag (University of Eötvös Lorand, Budapest)
6.15 Dinner
8.00 Keynote Address:
The European 1960/70s and the World: The Case of Régis Debray
Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey (History Department, University of Bielefeld)
Followed by a discussion with K.D. Wolff (Frankfurt)
Saturday, August 26
Section 3: Eastern Europe II
Chair: Kathrin Fahlenbrach
(Department of Media & Communication Studies, University of Halle)
9.00 Language of Protest or Protest of Language?
The Student Movements in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s
Zdenek Nebrensky (Prague)
9.40 Between Solidarity and Indifference:
The Western European Reception of Prague Spring in 1968
Birgit Hofmann (Department of Political Science, Universität Freiburg)
10.20 Protest Diffusion in the Semi-Periphery:
Greece and Spain as Examples of an ‘Alternative’ 1968
Kostis Kornetis (History Department, European University, Florence)
11:00 Coffee
Section 4: Activist Role Models & Their Adaptations
Chair: Wilfried Mausbach (HCA, Universität Heidelberg)
11.30 Mediatisation of Provo: The Image Game (1965-1967)
Niek Pas (Institute for Media Studies, Amsterdam University)
12.10 “Indiani Metropolitani” and “Stadtindianer”:
Representing Autonomy in Italy and West-Germany
Sebastian Haumann (History Department, University of Düsseldorf)
12.50 Lunch Break
Section 5: Recontextualization of Protest Cultures I
Chair: Beate Kutschke (Institute for New Music, University of Arts, Berlin)
2.30 Shifting Boundaries: Concepts and Symptoms of Transnational Identification
and Disassociation in the Language of the German Student Movement of 1968
Andreas Rothenhöfer (Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim):
3.10 A Tale of Two Revolts: “1968” in Divided Germany
Timothy Brown (History Department, Northeastern University, Boston)
3.50 Prague – Paris via East- and West-Berlin:
East German Literature as the Seismograph of a European Protest Movement
Susanne Rinner (Department of German, Georgetown University, Washington)
4.30 Coffee
Section 6: Recontextualization of Protest Cultures II
Chair: Martin Klimke (HCA, Heidelberg)
5.00 Foreign News in Dagsrevyen in 1968:
A Quantitative Analysis of the Global 1968 Revolutions in Norwegian Television
Rolf Werenskjold (Faculty of Media and Journalism, Volda University College,
Norway)
5.40 The 1970s RAF Solidarity Movement from a European Perspective
Jacco Pekelder (Duitsland Institute, Amsterdam University)
6.20 Adjourn
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