'1968 and its legacies', a series of six workshops, film screenings, and a three-day symposium, May-June 2018

To mark the 50th anniversary of the progressive mass protests of 1968, this six-week series of events will bring together a large number of high-profile activists who were ‘ringleaders’ of the protests, artists and filmmakers who broke new ground in the accompanying counterculture, and a wide range of researchers from various disciplines. The series will deal with events and experiences of ’68 in numerous international contexts.

Workshop 6, Tuesday, June 12th, 2018, double workshop on 1968, schools, and universities

Part 1, 11am-1pm: ‘1968 and English schooling: Antecedents, intersections, consequences’

Convener Ken Jones (Senior Policy Officer, National Education Union and Emeritus Professor of Education, Goldsmiths), with Martin Lawn (Honorary Professor, Centre for Educational Sociology, University of Edinburgh) and Jane Shallice (writer and activist).

Part 2, 2-4pm: ‘Feminism, Activism, and Academia from 1968 to 2018’

Convener Kelly Coate, School of Education, Communication, and Society, with Avtar Brah (Sociology, Birkbeck), Miriam David (Institute of Education, University of London), Gail Lewis (Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck), Pat Mahony (Visiting Professor, Education, KCL), Nira Yuval-Davis (Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees, and Belonging, University of East London).

[Please note that because Workshop 6 is actually two workshops, it is possible to register for Part 1 or Part 2, or both]

Full details here.

For full details of the '1968 and its legacies' series, including workshops, symposium, and film screenings, please visit: https://1968.kcl.ac.uk/