PROGRAM

“Revisiting 1968 and the Global Sixties” – Part I (NYU Shanghai)
March 13-15, 2016

Chair / Commentator: Mary Nolan (Professor of History, NYU)

Konstantinos Kornetis (UC3M CONEX-Marie Curie Fellow at Department of History and Arts, Carlos III University)
Tim Brown (Professor of History, Northeastern University)
Alexander Sedlmaier (Senior Lecturer in Modern History, School of History, Bangor University, Wales)

Chair / Commentator: Martin Klimke (Associate Professor of History, NYU Abu Dhabi)

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine): “Hypervisibility and Invisibility: Asian/American women, Radical Orientalism, and the Revisioning of Global Feminism”
Quinn Slobodian (Associate Professor of History, Wellesley College): “Maoism in the Global 1960s”
Nick Rutter (Research Fellow, Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies): “Communist fronts and Third World politics in the long 1960s”

Chair / Commentator: Christian Ostermann (Director of Cold War Project, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars)

Sean Fear (PhD Candidate, Cornell University): “Saigon’s Global 1968: The Convergence of Diplomacy and Domestic Politics in South Vietnam’s Second Republic”
Mario Del Pero: (Professor of International History, Sciences Po of Paris): “Détente and the Global Sixties”
Mary Nolan: (Professor of History, NYU): “Where was the economy in the Global Sixties?”

Chair / Commentator: Duane Corpis (Associate Professor of History, NYU Shanghai)

Dayo F. Gore (Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and the Critical Gender Studies, UC San Diego): “On Behalf of the Revolutionary Black People of the United States:” African American Women Radicals in China and the Making of U.S. Third World Solidarity Politics”
Maria Hoehn (Professor of History, Vassar College):” The 1970/71 Racial Crisis in the U.S. Military: Finding Solutions in West Germany and South Korea”

“1968 and the Global Cold War”

Odd Arne Westadt (ST Lee Professor of US-Asian Relations, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)

Chair / Commentator: Pierre Landry (Professor of Political Science, NYU)

Naoko Koda (Assistant Professor of History, Kinki University): “The U.S. Cold War and the Japanese Student Movement, 1948-1968”
Gregg A. Brazinsky (Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, George Washington University): “Making Non-Dissident Youth: The IFYE and Agrarian Youth in Asia and America”
Artemy Kalinofsky, (Associate Professor of East European Studies, Universitair Docent): “From 1968 to 1969: Education, Mobilization, and Anti-Colonial Politics in Tajikistan“

Chair/Commentator: Joanna Waley-Cohen (Professor of History/Provost, NYU Shanghai)

Christopher Connery (Professor of World Literature and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz): “The Dialectics of Liberation: The Global 1960s and the Present”
Jian Chen (Distinguished Global Network Professor of History, NYU Shanghai): “1968 as a Turning Point of China’s Revolutionary Era”
Zachary Scarlett (Assistant Professor of Chinese history, Butler University): “The Chinese Sixties: Global Narratives and Maoist Politics after the Sino-Soviet Split”

Moderators: Jeff Lehman (Vice-chancellor, NYU Shanghai), Jian Chen (Distinguished Global Network Professor of History, NYU Shanghai)

ROUNDTABLE 1: REVISITING 1968 AND THE GLOBAL SIXTIES ‐ DEFINITIONS AND MEANINGS