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International Protests and Approaches to Transnational and Global History

Societal Crises?: The End of World War II and the advent of the Cold War

Introducing the “Long Sixties,” Counter-culture, and the New Left

Lecture 1: Aug 29
Lecture 2: Aug. 31
Lecture 3: Sept 5
Attribution: Wikicommons

Vietnam, the Draft, and A Rising Culture of Dissent across Country Lines

“1968” Student Protests across the United States

Lecture 4 - Sept 7
Lecture 5 - Sept 12

From the Civil Rights to the Black Power Movement

Lecture 6 - Sept 14

Attribution: Ben Franske

Attribution: Rhododendrites

Attribution: Wikicommons

French Student Revolts in the Universities

Societal Challenges: Worker Unrest and the French New Left

Lecture 7 -Sept 19
Lecture 8 - Sept 21

Reverberations in the former French colonies

Lecture 9 - Sept 26
Atelier Populaire - National Library of France; http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9018074c.r=mai+1968.langFR
Attribution: Creative Commons

Mexico's Student Protests and Solidarity Across the Atlantic

Antifascism and Student Protests in West Germany

Lecture 10 - Sept 28
Lecture 11 - Oct 3

The Echo on the Other Side of the Berlin Wall

Lecture 12 - Oct 5

Attribution: Holger.Ellgaard

anonimous - Oficina de Asuntos Históricos de Cuba. Publicada en la Revista Verde Oliva 1959

The Prague Spring

The Cultural Revolution in China

Lecture 13 - Oct 12
Lecture 14 - Oct 17

Maoism Across the Globe

Lecture 15 - Oct 19

Attribution: The Central Intelligence Agency

Attribution: unidentified graphic designers, adapted by "The Shining Path" - [1]

Alternative Ways of Living

Art and Music: Was there a Globalized Counterculture?

Lecture 16 - Oct 24
Lecture 17 - Oct 26

The Role of the Media in the 1968 Revolts

Lecture 18 - Oct 31

Attribution: Warren K. Leffler, U.S. News & World Report Magazine

AttributionL Ken Westerfield on Wki -- CC Domain

The Case of the West German Springer Press

Militant Factions

Lecture 19 - Nov 2
Lecture 20 - Nov 7

Shifting Gendered Roles

Lecture 21 - Nov 9

Attribution: Wiki CC Image

Ratatosk - original WMF-file -  http://www.rafinfo.de/archiv/logo.php?pic=logo03.wmf, converted to SVG

Worker Protests: The United Farm Workers and the Delano Grape Boycott

The Roots of the Environmental Movements

Lecture 22 - Nov 14
Lecture 23 - Nov 16

The Gay Rights Movement in the Sixties

Lecture 24 - Nov 22

Attribution:: wikicommons)

Attribution::

Unknown photographer, Reproduction by Lear 21 at English Wikipedia.

A History of Anarchism and its relationship to the global sixties

Repressive Systems and (New) Languages of Dissent

Lecture 25 - Nov 28
Lecture 26 - Nov 30

1968 and 1989: Revolts vs. Revolution?

Lecture 27 - Dec 5
Lecture 28 - Dec 7

The Legacy of 1968 Today

S.Sgt. Albert R. Simpson. Department of Defense National Archives and Records Administration
Attribution: wikicommons

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