A crosspost from the Histories of Activism group
On Wednesday, 3 December, the Histories of Activism is holding a workshop entitled 'Students of the World Unite? Education and Internationalism in the Twentieth Century'. This half-day event is divided into two main sessions - one dedicated to various international ventures that students engaged in during the 1920s and 1930s, the other drawing attention to radical activism at school and university in and beyond the 1960s. As a whole, the event encourages reflection on the spaces in which students and educators operated, with a particular emphasis on the way in which the transnational related to the political.
13h30: Introduction
Daniel Laqua and Nicole Robertson
13h40: Students and internationalism in the interwar years
Tamson Pietsch (Sydney / Brunel): The Floating University: educational travel and international politics, 1926-27
Daniel Laqua (Northumbria): A new generation within a new world order: student activism as a form of interwar internationalism
Georgina Brewis (IOE): Service, self-help and international understanding: the work of European Student Relief / International Student Service between the World Wars
Chair: Tim Kirk (Newcastle)
15h10: Coffee break
15h30: Radical activism in and beyond the 1960s
Sarah Webster (Manchester): British students and transnational solidarity in Cold War Britain: activism beyond the NUS
Sylvia Ellis (Northumbria): British student activism and the international protests against the Vietnam War
Say Burgin (Leeds): 'We must understand how sexism, racism and imperialism are connected': Boston's free schools and anti-imperialist feminism in the 1970s
Chair: Martyn Smith (Newcastle)
17h00 Conclusion
Brian Ward (Northumbria)
To register for this event, please contact Daniel Laqua by 30 November. Alternatively, you can register your attendance on Facebook.
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