Lecture series: "... the long summer of revolt. '68 - the years after and the consequences".

Speakers include Aylâ Neusel, former vice president of the University of Kassel, Frieder O. Wolf, former member of the European Parliament, as well as lecturers Meike Baader, Barbara Rendtorff, Michael Winkler, Leonie Wagner and Reinhart Wolff, who was chairman of the SDS in 1965-66.

The lecture series will critically inquire from different perspectives how '68 "moved" and shook up pedagogy and social work in the early 1970s. 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the "'68 revolt." However, the protests began in the years before. As early as 1966, students were publicly committed to better study conditions and protested more massively against the Vietnam War. Then in 1967, during demonstrations against the visit of the Shah of Persia Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the student Benno Ohnesorg was shot dead by the policeman Karl-Heinz Kurras. This killing is considered the starting date of the `68 protests in the Federal Republic of Germany. Demonstrations, sit-ins, teach-ins and other forms of protest took place in many cities and especially at universities.

The protests in the second half of the 1960s, which were essentially carried by students, but also by trainees and pupils, initiated a lasting process of change in the political culture of the Federal Republic of Germany. A "long summer of revolt" followed. For some of the activists, the phase of initial protest actions and criticism was followed by the "long march through the institutions." While those who favored this path later took ministerial posts in sneakers, others took the path of armed struggle. Still others sought to shake up what they perceived as encrusted social conditions. Models of a more just, anti-capitalist, democratic world were discussed and implemented on a small scale, in residential communities and communes, at universities, and in a wide variety of projects, including and especially educational and socio-educational ones.

The series is discursively oriented and gives the audience the opportunity to ask questions and discuss.

The lecture series will take place every Tuesday from 6-8 p.m. starting Oct. 30 at the Campus Center, Moritzstr. 18, Lecture Hall 3. Admission is free.

The program for the lecture series can be found at: https://bit.ly/2PFiG6Z

Contact

Sebastian Mense
University of Kassel
Communication, Press and Public Relations
Tel.: +49 561 804-1961
E-mail: presse[at]uni-kassel[dot]de