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

Chair / Commentator: Mary Nolan (Professor, History, New York University)

PANEL 1: CONCEPTUALIZING THE GLOBAL SIXTIES ‐ GRASSROOTS PERSPECTIVES

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

PANEL 2: CONCEPTUALIZING THE GLOBAL SIXTIES ‐ DIPLOMACY/IR

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

PANEL 3: THE SIXTIES IN ASIA 1 ‐ GRASSROOTS PERSPECTIVES

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

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

“1968 and the Global Cold War” Odd Arne Westadt (ST Lee Chair of US-Asian Relations, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)

PANEL 4: THE SIXTIES IN ASIA 2 ‐ DIPLOMACY / IR

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

PANEL 5: CHINA IN THE GLOBAL SIXTIES

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

WRAP UP

Chair/Commentator: Jeff Lehman (Vice Chancellor, NYU Shanghai) Jian Chen (Distinguished Global Network Professor of History, NYU Shanghai)

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SPONSORS

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to our sponsors. The Revisiting 1968 and the Global Sixties conference would not be possible if it was not for your generous support.

Please join us in thanking the following organizations.

Provost’s Global Research Initiatives, NYU
The Provost’s Global Research Initiatives program supports research-related activities at a select number of NYU’s Global sites. The program supports short- and long-term faculty and graduate student visits to the sites; runs dissertation workshops for doctoral students in the final stages of writing; provides funding for workshops, colloquia, and the like at the sites; and supports collaboration between NYU faculty in New York and NYU faculty at the sites and in Abu Dhabi and in Shanghai.

NYU Shanghai, Office of the Provost
The Office of the Provostial Research Center offers a series of competitive funds that aimed at supporting curriculum development, research, scholarship, entrepreneurship and faculty development, particularly those that will foster interdisciplinary research at NYU Shanghai and establish research links with one or more of NYU’s global sites and other universities and their faculty.