Dear all,
You are invited to attend the following research talk:
‘1968 in West Germany: The Anti-Authoritarian Revolt’ by Professor Timothy Scott Brown of Northeastern University
Date: 23-02-2015
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Venue: Leeds Humanities Research Institute (Seminar Room 1)
Cost: Free
Event Summary:
Far from a narrow collection of protest events clustered around the years 1967-8, this talk will show the West German ‘1968’ was a multifaceted anti-authoritarian revolt stretching from the early 1960s to the late 1970s.
Politics and culture were inextricably linked in this revolt, not merely because of the oft-studied intersection of youth culture with consumer capitalism, nor because young provocateurs drew as much from artistic avant garde traditions as from radical political ones, but because in a range of areas - from literature and publishing, to music performance and production, to the visual arts and underground press - the revolt was as much a matter of cultural production as it was of political organisation. Appropriating lost knowledge and traditions from the revolutionary past while drawing on ideas, practices, texts, and tactics from the global present, activists imagined themselves into forms of global community while actively forging transnational connections.
Understanding the West German revolt not just in terms of key events, but in terms of underlying principles and imperatives, this talk will not only shed new light on a key episode in recent German history, but lay out the terms of a broader conversation about ‘1968’ in which scholars of different national cases or different disciplines can take part.
About the speaker:
Timothy Scott Brown is Professor of History at Northeastern University. For more details, see here: http://www.timothyscottbrown.org/bio.html
Dr Ingo Cornils
Senior Lecturer in German
School of Languages, Cultures and Societies University of Leeds Leeds
LS2 9JT
UK
phone 0044 113 3433513
web http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/people/20054/german/person/748/ingo_cornils
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