Workshop
Histories of Solidarity, Youth and Transnationalism in the 20th Century
[CSMCH]
27 May 2019
University of Edinburgh
2.19 Geography (Old Infirmary)
12:00-12:15 Welcome
12:15-13:15 Panel 1: Youth, Generation and Activism in the Cold War
Nikolaos Papadogiannis (Bangor University): Internationalism, Holocaust Memories and Organised Youth Mobility from West Germany to Israel during the Cold War
Ljubica Spaskovska (University of Exeter): Non-Aligned Punk – Youth Cultures and Politics Between the Blocs
13:15-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Panel 2: Revolutionary (Inter)nationalism in the ‘Short’ 20th Century
Emile Chabal (University of Edinburgh): Revolutionary Dreams: Eric Hobsbawm and Global Communism in the Late 1930s
Harini Amarasurya (Open University): From respectable to violent revolutionaries: changing narratives of student activists in Sri Lanka.
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
2.13 Geography (Old Infirmary)
15:30-17:30 Nae Pasaran! screening and discussion with Fraser Raeburn (University of Edinburgh) Martín Farias (University of Edinburgh) and Claudia Stern (Tel Aviv University)