Columbia in Paris

Please note that class will not take place on Monday, June 23 due to Orientation. This session will be rescheduled during the program. Faculty will provide specific information on make-up sessions.

Class Schedule:

• Monday, Tuesday & Thursday, 4:30 pm - 7:30 pm

"1968" remains a watershed year in the history of worldwide struggles for liberation and emancipation. For many the last gasp of the revolutionary era, for others the beginning of a new regime of flexible control. The hypothesis for this seminar holds that "1968" matters for a thinking of the event in two essential ways: not only may we ask what happened but we also should ask how we can talk of the happening of an event in the first place. Alternating theoretical and fictional, historical and artistic, filmic and political materials, students will be expected to develop an original take on one aspect of the paradigm shift that affects the thinking of the events of “1968” during that exceptional month of May in Paris, while keeping a close eye on the national and international contexts behind the global sixties.