Some list members may be interested in the following event, which will 
take place at Pembroke College, Cambridge on September 14th (with 
apologies for any cross-posting):

*Violence and Militancy from ‘68 to the G20 - Nihon Room, Pembroke 
College, Cambridge | September 14, 2017*

‘Gewalt’ and ‘Militanz’ have long played a critical role in the theory 
and practice of violence and counterviolence on the radical German Left. 
 From the politics of the personal put forward by the 68ers to the recent 
riots in Hamburg after the July G20, leftists have for decades grappled 
with political violence and the militant politics of identity in terms 
of their own self-formation, practice, and political resistance.

This symposium, the final event in a DAAD-funded series of workshops 
entitled 'Herrschaft and Gewalt from the Kaiserreich to the Berlin 
Republic', brings together international experts in the theory, history, 
psychology, and practice of Western militant violence, including: the 
Black Panthers, the 1970s and 80s anti-nuclear protests, the 1980s 
squatting wave in Germany and the Netherlands, and the urban terrorism 
of the Red Army Fraction, as well as the intellectuals across Europe who 
participated in this wider network. The conversation will coalesce on 
the recent riots in Hamburg, applying a history and theory to understand 
the most recent shifts in political violence. Bringing together theory 
and practice, this session will open a space to critically discuss the 
evolution of this striking form of political contestation, and 
interrogate the idea of militancy as the uniting feature of leftwing 
violence. It will trace the political genealogy of the G20 riots, 
situating them within theoretical and historical approaches to leftwing 
violence and militancy since 1968 in both a German and a transnational 
context.

Speakers include:

Professor Kimberly Hutchings, Queen Mary University of London - ‘Does 
the Idea of Militant Non-Violence Make Sense?’

Dr Andrew Tompkins, Sheffield University - ‘'Peaceful but offensive' 
protest: Varieties of Violence in the 1970s Anti-Nuclear Movement’

Dr Bart van der Steen, Leiden University - ‘In the shadow of the Red 
Army Faction: Debating the boundaries of militant activism in the 1980s'

Mr Gert Levy, Gestalttherapeut, Köln - ‘Militant leftwing-movements in 
Germany since 1962: From the Stones Concert in Berlin’s Waldbühne to 
Hamburg’s 2017 G20’

The event takes place on 14 September 2017 in the Nihon Room, Pembroke 
College, Cambridge, 9:30-17:00 (map: https://goo.gl/VnIn0U)

The event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited to 50. 
Please register via email to Ms Ali Jones at: [log in to unmask]

Run with the support of the DAAD Research Hub for German Studies at the 
University of Cambridge and Pembroke College.