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Aktuelles The
'Other' Alliance: Political Protest, Intercultural Relations and
Collective Identities in West Germany and the United States, Symposium
to be held at the Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg
Coordination:
VW Project Heidelberg / Rutgers University The 1960s are commonly remembered as an era of global change, producing an historical caesura, culturally as well as politically. In numerous countries, images of protest, generational revolt, countercultural indulgence, sexual liberation, and government repression circulate in the public memory of those years. As the “sixties” now move from an era mostly characterized by individual recollection and popular memory to one of professional historical reflection, its international dimension has recently become a particular focus of scholarly inquiry. The protest movements of the 1960/70s are increasingly viewed as a global phenomenon, representing social and cultural responses to emerging patterns of economic, technological, and political globalization. Yet the processes through which activists from numerous countries established contact, shared ideas, adopted social and cultural practices, and adapted them to their own needs and circumstances are still largely unexplored; so too are the consequences of these processes for changing notions of “self” and “other” and for the (re-)construction of identities. This conference will take social and countercultural protest movements in West Germany and the United States during the 1960/70s as a starting point for a closer examination of the aforementioned questions. It aims to look at intercultural exchanges between these movements and at the importance of those exchanges for the construction of collective identities on both sides of the Atlantic. How did ideas, lifestyles, cultural practices and political strategies transcend national barriers and move back and forth across the Atlantic? Who transmitted them? In what ways were they received or rejected, adopted and adapted to the respective national settings? The aims of the conference include an analysis of the impact these processes had on the (re-) construction of national and transnational identities in West Germany and the United States during the time of the Cold War. Downloads [Conference
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Papers to Download] [Photos] Program Thursday, May 19 3:30
pm Welcome (DAI) 4:00
pm Film Showing: Viva
Maria! 6:00 pm The Subjective Factor: Revolutionizing the Revolutionaries - Then and Now Discussion with Rainer Langhans, Munich 7:30 pm Reception (Haus Buhl)
9:00
am Welcome (IWH)
9:30
am German Social Theory in an American Context: The Case of Herbert
Marcuse and his Discourse of Dissent 9:50 am Discussion 10:10
am Intellectual Transfer: Critical Theory: From Germany to America
and Back 10:30 am Discussion 10:50 am Coffee Break
11:10
am Transformation by Subversion? - The New Left and the Question
of Violence 11:40 am Discussion 12:00
noon Subversive Actions – The Discursive Genealogy of RAF
and Weather Underground 12:20 pm Discussion 12:45 Lunch
Section III: The Past as Present 2:30
pm Milieux de Mémoire and Lieux de Mémoire in Contemporary 3:00 pm Discussion 3:20
pm America’s Vietnam in Germany – Germany in America’s
Vietnam: On the Relocation of Spaces and the Appropriation of History 3:40 pm Discussion 4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:30
pm Uncivil Disobedience: Violence in West German Protest
of the 1960s 5:00 pm Discussion 5:20
pm “Das Erbe der 68er voll erlebt hab'" - Staying Political
in 1970s West Germany 5:40 pm Discussion 6:00 pm Adjourn 6:30 pm Dinner at Ristorante Da Mario
8:00
pm Rebels with a Cause Discussion with Helen Garvy and Robert Pardun, Los Gatos, Calif.
Section
V: Protest and Power – Observing the “Other Alliance” 9:00
am ‘A Serious Concern of U.S. Foreign Policy’ –
The West German Student Movement and the Western Alliance 9:30 am Discussion 9:50
am The Language of Dissent and Foreign Policy: The Nexus of Social
Change in West Germany and the United States, 1961-1972 10:10 am Discussion 10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00
am Whose Racism? The Trial of the ‘Ramstein Two’ 11:30 am Discussion 11:50
am ‘From Protest to Resistance’: On the Uses and Abuses
of ‘Resistance’ in the Political Rhetoric of the Militant
Left 12:10 pm Discussion 12:30 pm Lunch Break
2:00
pm Between Ballots and Bullets: Autonomous Social Movements and 2:30 pm Discussion 2:50
pm The Politics of Space and Radical Identities in 1970s West Berlin: 3:10 pm Discussion 3:30 pm Coffee
8:00
pm Bernardine Dohrn, Chicago Wine Reception Section
VIII: Summing Up 9:30
am Summing up 10:15 am Coffee Break 10:45 am General Discussion 12:30 pm Lunch & Adjourn Film Series Movies
are shown at the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Heidelberg, DAI Schedule:
Friday, May 20, 8:00 pm: Rebels with a Cause Saturday,
May 21, 8:00 pm: Roundtable Discussion: SDS Meets SDS - A Retrospective
Sunday, May 22, 7:30 pm: The Weather Underground For
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