Unsettled 1968 in the Troubled Present
Why does 1968 matter today? The authors of this volume believe that it is a crucial point of reference for current developments, especially the illiberal turn both in Europe and America. If we want to understand it, we need to look back into 1968 the year that founded the cultural and political order of todays world.
The book consists of the following four sections: 1968 and transnationality, 1968 and the transformation of meanings, Artistic representations of 1968, and 1968 and the European contemporaneity. This is followed by an afterword from the significant keynote speaker at the conference Unsettled 1968: Origins Myth Impact in June 2018 in Tbingen, Germany: Irena Grudzinska-Gross, herself a Polish 68er, reflects upon the conference and leaves remarks on her 50 years of engagement with what happened in 1968.
Aleksandra Konarzewska is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Tbingen.
Anna Nakai is a PhD candidate at the Department of History, Central European University.
Micha Przeperski is a PhD researcher at Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw.
Routledge Studies in Modern History
52 Castro and Franco
The Backstage of Cold War Diplomacy
Haruko Hosoda
53 Model Workers in China, 1949-1965
Constructing A New Citizen
James Farley
54 Making Sense of Mining History
Themes and Agendas
Edited by Stefan Berger and Peter Alexander
55 Transatlantic Trade and Global Cultural Transfers Since 1492
More Than Commodities
Edited by Martina Kaller and Frank Jacob
56 Contesting the Origins of the First World War
An Historiographical Argument
Troy R. E. Paddock
57 India at 70
Multidisciplinary Approaches
Edited by Ruth Maxey and Paul McGarr
58 1917 and the Consequences
Edited by Gerhard Besier and Katarzyna Stoklosa
59 Reforming Senates
Upper Legislative Houses in North Atlantic Small Powers 1800-present
Edited by Nikolaj Bijleveld, Colin Grittner, David E. Smith and Wybren Verstegen
60 Unsettled 1968 in the Troubled Present
Revisiting the 50 Years of Discussions from East and Central Europe
Edited by Aleksandra Konarzewska, Anna Nakai and Micha Przeperski
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The majority of the articles in the following volume were primarily presented at the University of Tbingen in Germany during the workshop Unsettled 1968: Origins Myth Impact (1416 June 2018). The workshop was organized by Aleksandra Konarzewska (University of Tbingen), Anna Nakai (Central European University, Budapest), Micha Przeperski (Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw), and Miosz Wiatrowski (Yale University), and was funded by the Institutional Strategy (Exzellenzinitiative) of the Graduate Academy of Tbingen and Vereinigung der Freunde der Universitt Tbingen. We would hereby like thank all participants and supporters of this project, especially the heads of the Institute of the Slavic Languages and Literatures (University of Tbingen) Tilman Berger and Schamma Schahadat and our awe-inspiring keynote lecturers: Irena Grudziska-Gross, Victoria Harms, and Micha Mrugalski. Thank you again for your speeches, discussions, and feedback.
Una Blagojevi completed her MA in Philosophy at KU Leuven in Belgium, and her MA in History at Central European University in Budapest. She is currently a first-year PhD student at the Department of History, Central European University in Budapest, where she researches the intellectual and cultural history of socialist Yugoslavia.
Dmitry Bochkov is a social anthropologist currently affiliated with the Ethnology Department, Moscow State University. His focus on ecological subjectivity and psychosocial studies in anthropology has led him to questions about the delineation of the post-socialist traumatic experience. The project on cultural trauma of 1968 was presented in the University of Tbingen, CEU, Uppsala University, and Moscow State University. His ongoing project concerns the ways ecological awareness may shape private subjectivity in the Russian Federation.
Adrian Chubb is a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research interests focus on the Bonn Republic and particularly the 1960s and 1970s. His dissertation will examine the interaction between Gnter Grasss literary works in the late 1960s and his political engagement at the time.
Andrzej Czyewski holds a PhD in History from the University of d (Poland). His thesis examined the problem of communist politics of memory regarding World War II in occupied d. He is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and History at the University of d, and a principal investigator in the National Science Centre of Poland project Generation or Generations of March 68 Between Oral History and Biographical Method (20182021). His areas of interest are the politics of memory, oral history and history of historiography.
Bartosz Gromko is a PhD student at the Faculty of History and Social Sciences at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyski University in Warsaw. He is holder of a scholarship from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His research interests concern the policy of the Italian Communist Party towards Eastern countries during the Cold War.
Victoria Harms is currently a DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University. She specializes in Cold War history with a focus on the US and Europe. She graduated with a PhD in History from the University of Pittsburgh, an MA from the Central European University in Budapest, and a BA from the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder).
Aleksandra Konarzewska is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Tbingen. She graduated from the University of Warsaw and University of Tbingen. Her research encompasses literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Polish, Russian, German) and philosophy and the history of ideas in Central and Eastern Europe.
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