cfp: "F*ck May ’68, Fight Now": Exploring the Uses of the Radical Past from 1968 to Today
Check out this call for papers for an upcoming conference titled, "F*ck May ’68, Fight Now": Exploring the Uses of the Radical Past from 1968 to Today." The conference will take place at the University of Liverpool, in the UK. The conference will take place on Friday 8 June 2018.
You can submit proposal abstracts of 250-300 words to the conference e-mail address: fmay68fightnow@gmail.com Any enquiries may be sent to the same address. CFP due 16 February 2018.
"This conference takes the 50th anniversary of 1968 as an occasion to critically assess the various ways in which radical events and movements since the 1960s have been retold, not just in historical writing, but through a broad range of cultural media, activities, and practices, including by activists themselves. It also seeks to explore how the representation of the past is involved in the struggle over cultural and political meaning in the present, over what counts as history and what does not. Finally, it aims to reflect on how memory and history continue to inform political activity in the contemporary moment. In doing so, the conference organisers invite contributions from activists, historians, and other scholars, but also artists, journalists, curators, archivists, educators, filmmakers, musicians, and cultural workers."
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