International Scholars Gather for Global 70’s Conference
Supported by generous grants from the BU Humanities Center and Dutch NWO, the first Global 1970s conference convened in the BU Photonics Center on November 10-12, 2011. The conference represents the initial effort of an international group of scholars to take stock of an important and previously understudied era in global political and cultural history. Drawing together scholars from the Netherlands, Germany, France, Canada, and the United States, the conference covered a wide range of geographic areas and disciplinary perspectives
Highlights included lively sessions on the relationship between literary and artistic experimentation and political radicalism, and on trans-national activist and artust networks during the 1970s. In addition to Professor Jeffrey Rubin (CAS History), who delivered a paper, entitled, “From Che Guevara to Subcomandante Marcos: How Radical Priests, Indians, Feminists and Workers Transformed the Latin American Left in the 1970s,” and Gregory Williams (CAS History of Art and Architecture), who presented on West German art and politics, numerous BU students and faculty participated in the discussions.
