Kristin Ross is professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author of May ’68 and its Afterlives (2002) and Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Commune, and works on culture, literature, politics, ideologies in the 19th and 20th century, focusing on France.

In this talk, Kristin Ross will present a re-evaluation of the French and global 60s in the light of contemporary territorial and land-based struggles like the zad at Notre-Dame-des-Landes. She will argue that ’68 was a movement that began in the cities whose intelligence and future leads to the earth/Earth. In other words:  “De boue, les damnés de la terre.”