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SUMMARY:Imagining the Transnational Character of ‘1968’ - Reassessing 
 the Importance of Global Developments in Shaping Austrian and West German 
 Protestors - Rafael Milan Kropiunigg\, PhD Candidate\, Faculty of History\
 , University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20120523T120000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Andreas Bulling
DESCRIPTION:Efforts to historicise ‘1968’ in recent decades have incre
 asingly moved scholars from viewing the turbulent protest year in terms of
  generational conflict with nation-specific peculiarities to portraying it
  as a global youth movement transcending state boundaries through transnat
 ional activities. By drawing on the West German and Austrian examples\, th
 is talk aims to reassess interpretations stressing the importance of inter
 national solidarity among 68ers on the one hand\, and the Frankfurt School
 ’s emphasis on internal causes on the other hand. Neither of these frame
 works alone captures the essence of why West German protest movements erup
 ted even while ‘1968’ in Austria amounted to ‘a hot quarter of an ho
 ur’. The talk proposes that the aforementioned frameworks compliment eac
 h other. While transnational experiences gave rise to a universal language
  and methods of dissent as well as provided protestors with the necessary 
 confidence that acted as their basis of departure\, national factors ultim
 ately determined whether protestors could successfully unite to translate 
 their newly acquired tools and internationalist rhetoric into domestic act
 ion and thus move beyond the international dimension by ‘bringing the re
 volution home’.
LOCATION:Old Combination Room\, Wolfson College
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