The long and global 68

"The long and global 68: from Mexico to the world"
Jaime Pensado (Notre Dame University)

The year 1968 represented a global phenomenon, and in that season Mexico was one of the absolute protagonists of the unrest. In fact, the organization of the first Latin American Olympics was intertwined with student protests and culminated on October 2 in the Plaza Tlatelolco massacre (elements captured in Gabriel Ripstein's recent series for Televisa/Amazon, Un extraño enemigo). The subsequent Olympic Games were then also marked by the well-known pro-African-American rights protest by the winners of the 200 mt, Americans Tommy Smith and John Carlos. To place those events in a scenario of global transformation will be the seminar by Professor Jaime Pensado of the Kellog Institute for International Studies at Notre Dame University (South Bend, USA), author of important studies such as Rebel Mexico: Student Unrest and Authoritarian Political Culture During the Long Sixties (Stanford University Press, 2013), México Beyond 1968 (University of Arizona Press, 2018), with Enrique Ochoa, and the very recent study on the 1960s counterculture Love and Despair (University of California Press, 2023). Massimo De Giuseppe (IULM University) will introduce and Maria Matilde Benzoni (University of Milan) and Benedetta Calandra (University of Bergamo) will serve as discussants.

may 18, 10:30 a.m. Room 122
"The long and global 68: from Mexico to the world"
Jaime Pensado (Notre Dame University)

Introduction: Massimo De Giuseppe (IULM University)
Report: Jaime Pensado (Kellog Institute for International Studies, Notre Dame University)
Discussant: Maria Matilde Benzoni (University of Milan) and Benedetta Calandra (University of Bergamo)

Admission is free. Download the event poster here