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Dear MECCSA colleagues, Only three days to go until the *1968 and its LEGACIES Symposium *will be kicking off at King's College, London. Places are filling up fast, so make sure to *book tickets *if you are planning on attending. Hoping to see many of you there! Please visit https://1968.kcl.ac.uk <https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2F1968.kcl.ac.uk%2F&data=01%7C01%7C%7C2a43990c4e6640c6c0ff08d5bfef4e0b%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=nTQO2WQZGksBsLHNCAUTSqc3inwWDZB2OAje3E7U1UI%3D&reserved=0> for more details on the programme and follow us on Facebook <https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fevents%2F1879690522063027%2F&data=01%7C01%7C%7Cef422d2e47624c68430608d5d0853bc4%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=o0yP50l3IGKx50XjQoEuM1P0i2eh1DnKVUiGhCPwcsw%3D&reserved=0> and Twitter <https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2F1968andits&data=01%7C01%7C%7Cef422d2e47624c68430608d5d0853bc4%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=tl3nwv%2FQYaCB9xASYJRFHdaMP0kaaGD7xW2LwpbK7fU%3D&reserved=0> for live updates. Click here <https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2F1968-and-its-legacies-registration-45146956763&data=01%7C01%7C%7Cef422d2e47624c68430608d5d0853bc4%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=Wjp0uKpQUqt2mI4X9WBtHBZ6ZI39T%2BkeYmC3Wg5CfD8%3D&reserved=0> to register for one or more events (all events are free except the screening at BFI on Friday, June 15th). ********************* *1968 AND ITS LEGACIES* *KING'S COLLEGE LONDON* *SYMPOSIUM, Friday, June 15th-Sunday, June 17th, 2018* Confirmed guest speakers include -- Tariq Ali -- Kathleen Cleaver -- Phil Cohen -- Jochen Gerz -- Sylvia Harvey -- Patricia Holland -- Gerd-Rainer Horn -- David James -- Bernadette Mcaliskey -- Juliet Mitchell -- Antonio Negri -- Anne Querrien -- Mark Rudd -- Helke Sander -- Allan Siegel -- plus 24 other speakers. Topics discussed and debated at the symposium will include the politics of the street and institutions; occupations and strikes; race, civil rights and Black Power; anti-imperialism and decolonization; anti-war movements; the Vietnam War; sexual liberation; critiques of capitalism; education and radical pedagogy; feminism; hippie counterculture; the right to the city; architecture, the built environment and mass protest; state and police power; indigenous peoples; gay rights; identity politics; art and activism; film and politics; mass media portrayals of '60s radicals; photography and mass protest; political documentary; radical theatre and poetry; popular music and popular resistance; psychedelia; performance art; conservative, neoliberal and far right reactions to 1968; 1968 and present-day protest (Occupy, MeToo, Black Lives Matter). *FILM SCREENINGS* Friday, June 15th, 2018, 6pm, BFI Southbank – *Columbia Revolt *(Newsreel 1968), *America, aka Amerika *(Newsreel, 1969), and *The Case Against Lincoln Center *(Newsreel, 1968), with discussion and q&a with Newsreel founder member Allan Siegel — BOOK TICKETS <https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwhatson.bfi.org.uk%2FOnline%2Fdefault.asp%3FdoWork%3A%3AWScontent%3A%3AloadArticle%3DLoad%26BOparam%3A%3AWScontent%3A%3AloadArticle%3A%3Aarticle_id%3DA11F4668-B638-4E70-86F5-5538A0E9AFAF%26BOparam%3A%3AWScontent%3A%3AloadArticle%3A%3Acontext_id%3DCEFD333C-38A4-480A-BE6B-DD65E956BBE8&data=01%7C01%7C%7Cef422d2e47624c68430608d5d0853bc4%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=WVXjfKRywFJC4T64ed1LscZh23Oa6brGJ01ijA4BeaQ%3D&reserved=0> . Friday, June 15th, KCL – *World in Action: The Demonstration *(Granada Television, original broadcast March 18th, 1968; with thanks to Park Circus Group) – SHOWN IN THE SYMPOSIUM ONLY. Saturday, June 16th, KCL – *The Hornsey Film *(Pat Holland, 1968) – about the student occupation of Hornsey College of Art, with discussion and q&a with the director, Pat Holland – SHOWN IN THE SYMPOSIUM ONLY. Sunday, June 17th, KCL – *Subjektitude *(1967) and *Break the Power of the Manipulators *(1968) by the German feminist filmmaker Helke Sander, with Sander in discussion and q&a – SHOWN IN THE SYMPOSIUM ONLY. *Organizing committee: *Mark Shiel (convener), Patrick Ffrench, Paolo Gerbaudo, Sharon Gewirtz, Alex Loftus, David Treece; with thanks to the King’s Together Fund and to the Department of Film Studies, French, Digital Humanities, Geography, and Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, and to the School of Education, Communication, and Society. -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. 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