This conference aims to explore the history of students through their regional, religious, national and international organisations in the second half of the twentieth century. The aim is to examine the student agency through the analysis of their social profile, the forms of material or symbolic compensation for their commitment, and the circulation of knowledge about the economic and social situation of the students.
9.00-10.30 Students Against Dictatorship and Socio-Economic Inequalities
Discussant: Franziska Zaugg
Ioannis Brigkos, University of Vienna
Students, Surveillance, and Solidarity: Greek Anti-Junta Activism in Austria during the Cold War
Daniel Canales Ciudad, University of Girona
“Other Third Worlds on your doorstep”: Student volunteering and the discovery of underdevelopment in Franco’s Spain
Patrick Smylie, University of Westminster
Unlikely Allies: Students and Working-Class Youth Mobilisation in late 1940s Dublin
11.00-12.30 Anti-Imperialism in the Global 1960s
Discussant: Mikuláš Pešta
Vincenzo Colaprice, University Roma Tre
An Imagined Community of Anti-Imperialist Youth? The WFDY and Transnational Student Activism in the Global 1960s
Guadalupe Seia, Nayla Pis Diez, University of Buenos Aires
Universities as Battlegrounds: Student Movement against Cultural Imperialism in Latin America during the Cold War (1960s–1970s)
Amirpasha Tavakkoli, Sciences Po Toulouse
A Forgotten History: Confederation of Iranian Students and the “Making of Global 1968”
14.30-16.00 Foreign Students: Mobility and Cold War Internationalism
Discussant: Lidia Lesnykh
Jules Siran, University of Geneva
Activist or Reluctant Internationalism? The Hungarian Communist Youth Union and the Reception of Foreign Students (1960s–1990s)
Lucie Lamy, Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam
West German Student Associations, Mobile Students and the Global Cold War
Derya Bozat, University of Bern
Red Island, Red East: Malagasy Students in the Soviet Union, 1975–1991
17.30-18.45 Keynote conference of James Mark, University of Exeter
“Racing” Eurasia: Communist Internationalism and Student Mobility since the 1950s
Friday, 21 November
9.00-10.30 Student Activism in France: Transnational Perspective
Discussant: Robi Morder
Ombeline Bois, University Paul Valéry Montpellier
Vietnamese Student Organisations in France (1955-1975): Navigating Diasporic Diplomacy and Transnational Struggles
Sara Legrandjacques, Sorbonne University
Between French Walls: Organising Indian Students at the Maison de l’Inde, late 1960s-early 1990s
Annalise Walkama, University of Idaho
The Corsican Vacation: A Social History of Deported Refugee Students During the 1960 Soviet State Visit to France
10.45-12.00 Keynote Konstantin Katsakioris
Topic: tbc
13.15-14.15 Student Media as a Space of Mobilisation
Discussant: Matthieu Gillabert
Janik Hollnagel, Lisa-Frederike Seidler, Freie Universität Berlin
Conflict and Collaboration. Students at the Freie Universität Berlin (FU) in the 1980s
Maxime Dulau, Université Bordeaux Montaigne
Students of Atlanta in the Midst of the Sixties and the Rise of Radical Feminism: A Local Evolution Around a National Cause
The exhibition Student Internationalism will be organised at the University of Fribourg from 17.11 to 5.12. The exhibition aims to connect several generations of students. It approaches students' life and activity outside the classroom through their visual cultures, such as posters, magazine covers, catalogues, and photographs.
For more information: https://projects.unifr.ch/students-cold-war/