1968 Turning Point:
Conference Programme
FRIDAY 10TH OCTOBER 2008
9.00 – 10.00 a.m.
Registration –
Institute of Governance, Public Policy & Social Research (IOG),
53-67 University Road (Ground Floor).
10.00 – 11.30 a.m.
Plenary Address I:
[IOG, First Floor, Seminar Room 1]
 Professor Gerard De Groot (Author, The Sixties
Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly
Decade) (St. Andrews University), “Paranoia Strikes
Deep: Revisionism and the Battle for Ownership of
the 1960s ”
11.30 – 11.45 a.m.
Coffee Break
(See below for panels in detail)
11.45 a.m. – 1.15 p.m.
Panel A :
“1968 Through Text And Music”
[IOG, First Floor, Seminar Room 1]
1.15 – 2.00 p.m.
Lunch
2.00 – 3.30 p.m.
Panel B: “1968 And Its Visual Representations”
[IOG, First Floor, Seminar Room 1]
3.30 – 5.00 p.m.
Panel C: “International Perspectives And Comparisons”
[IOG, First Floor, Seminar Room 1]
5.00 – 5.15 p.m.
Coffee Break
5.15 – 6.30 p.m.
Panel D: “1968: Its Afterlives And Legacies”
[IOG, First Floor, Seminar Room 1]
6.30 – 7.30 p.m.
Floor.
Wine Reception (Sponsored by the Institute of Irish Studies) –IOG, First
8.00 p.m.
Conference Dinner
SATURDAY 11TH OCTOBER 2008
9.30 – 10.00 a.m.
Registration –
Institute of Governance, Public Policy & Social Research (IOG),
53-67 University Road (Ground Floor).
10.00 – 11.30 a.m.
Plenary Address II:
[IOG, First Floor, Seminar Room 1]
 Professor Henry Patterson (Author, Ireland Since 1939:
The Persistence of Conflict) (University of Ulster),
“Burntollet: The Spark that Lit the Prairie Fire? ”
11.30 – 11.45 a.m.
Coffee Break
11.45 – 1.15 p.m.
Panel E: “Northern Ireland’s ’68”
[IOG, First Floor, Seminar Room 1]
1.15 p.m. – 2.00 p.m.
Lunch
2.00 – 3.30 p.m.
Panel F: “1968 And Social Movement Theory”
[IOG, First Floor, Seminar Room 1]
3.30 – 4.00 p.m.
Coffee and Goodbyes
1968 Turning Point:
Panels in Detail
FRIDAY 10TH OCTOBER 2008
11.45 a.m. - 1.15 p.m.
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PANEL A – 1968 Through Text And Music
[IOG, First Floor, Seminar Room 1]
1) Dr. Tess Maginess (School of Education, QUB)
‘Times, They Are A Changin?’
2) Katarzyna Lech (University College, Dublin)
‘1968 in Poland: Ode To Romanticism’
3) Jaime Rollins McColgan (School of History and Anthropology, QUB)
‘Let The People Sing: The Power And Influence of Music in Social Movements’
2.00 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.
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PANEL B – 1968 And Its Visual Representations
[IOG, First Floor, Seminar Room 1]
1) Deidre McHugh (NUI, Galway)
‘Events Over Analysis: RTÉ’s Coverage of the 1968 Civil Rights Marches in
Northern Ireland’
2) Cathal McManus (School of Education, QUB)
‘Pot-Holes And Collars: “The Rocky Road To Dublin” And Irish Society In The
1960s’
3) Aaron Hunter (Film Studies, QUB)
‘No Need For Nostalgia: 1968 In Hal Ashby’s Shampoo and Coming Home’
3.30 p.m.- 5.00 p.m.
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PANEL C – 1968: International Perspectives And Comparisons
[IOG, First Floor, Seminar Room 1]
1) John Hutton (Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen)
‘Gaullisme, L’esprit Des Annes Soxiante, Et La Crise De Mai Soixante Huit’
(‘Gaullism, The Spirit Of The Sixties, And The Crisis Of May ’68’)
2) Efe Can Gürcan (International Relations, Koç University, Istanbul)
‘The Historical Significance Of The Turkish 68 Movements With Reference To The
1908 Revolution: Past, Present And Future’
3) Elaine Coyle (Trinity College Dublin)
‘Kant’s Enlightenment Project’ and the Ideals of the 1968 Protest Movements’
5.15 p.m. - 6.30 p.m.
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PANEL D – 1968: Its Afterlives And Legacies
[IOG, First Floor, Seminar Room 1]
1) Dr. Stuart Ross (School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, QUB)
‘Northern Ireland’s 1968 ... Ten Years On’
2) Stephen Plunkett (Glasgow Caledonian University)
‘The 1968 Social Work (Scotland) Act: A Radical Vision For Social Change’
3) Megan R. Stahl (University of St. Andrews)
‘The Judgement of the Symbionese Liberation Army: Media Treatment of American
Political Violence in the 1970s’
SATURDAY 11TH October 2008
11.45 a.m. - 1.15 p.m.
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PANEL E – Northern Ireland’s ’68
[IOG, First Floor, Seminar Room 1]
1) Eoin Clarke (School of History and Anthropology, QUB)
‘Betty Sinclair and the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association’
2) Michael McCann ‘The Origins of the Troubles’
3) Celine Lélong (Université Rennes)
‘Posters from the Streets of France and Northern Ireland in the Late 1960s:
Curious Coincidence’
2.00 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.
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PANEL F – 1968 And Social Movement Theory
[IOG, First Floor, Seminar Room 1]
1) Dr. John Nagle (INCORE, University of Ulster)
‘The Paisleyite Countermovement against Civil Rights: Reflexive and Counter
Modernisation’
2) Audra Mitchell (School of Politics, International Studies and Governance, QUB)
‘The Ideational Afterlife of the NICRA: Lasting Legacy or Unfinished Business?’
3) Azat Gubdogan (Department of Sociology, Binghamton University, N.Y.)
‘“We Have Caves, They Have Villas!”Eastern Demonstrations: An Alternative
Moment in the 1968 Movement In Turkey’