1968: The Ambiguous Consequences of a Failed Revolution

Activity Type: 
Lecture
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Presenter: 
Todd Gitlin, Columbia University
Date: 
Thursday, February 8, 2018 - 16:00 to 18:00
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
WPU Assembly Room
Contact Person: 
Allyson Delnore
Contact Email: 
adelnore@pitt.edu
Cost: 
Free and open to the public

The multiple uprisings of 1968 challenged authorities worldwide, and led to many reforms, but the insurgents misunderstood the nature of their insurgencies, and this misunderstanding drastically limited their effects. They did not add up to a revolution. Rather, in their multiplicity, they were something far more complicated and ambiguous: the culmination of an era of incremental progressive change, a signal of the collapse of conventional liberalism, and a prologue to deep cultural changes as well as grim backlash

UCIS Unit: 
Center for African Studies
Asian Studies Center
Center for Latin American Studies
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Director's Office
European Studies Center
Global Studies Center
World Regions: 
Africa
Asia
East Asia
Europe
Europe and Russia
European Union
International
Latin America
Russia/Eastern Europe
Western Europe