From Occupy Wall Street, to the Arab Spring, to Black Lives Matter, we live in an age of protest. Fifty years ago, the uprisings of the “global 1968” rocked the world. Young people fought for rights for women, minorities, and the poor, and tried to imagine a new world beyond capitalism and communism. What do the events of five decades ago have to teach us today? Join leading experts for a discussion of the Global 1968 and its continuing relevance for contemporary debates on race, gender, and inequality.

Participants include:

Jeremy Varon, Professor of History, The New School

Burleigh Hendrickson, Associate Fellow in Africana Studies, Dickinson College

Julian Bourg, Associate Professor of History, Boston College

Louise Walker, Associate Professor of History, Northeastern University

Timothy Scott Brown, Professor of History, Northeastern University

This event is also co-sponsored by The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture.