French Revolution
The Long French Revolution in Literature and Life: 1789-1871
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYFor Marxist and democratic historians, France remains the ‘model’ country for the analysis of class struggles and political revolutions, which overthrew the established order in 1789, 1830, 1848 and 1871 (and profoundly threatened the bourgeois order again in 1968). We will examine these successive revolutions chronologically through the eyes of both radical historians and novelists.
Jean Jaurès 100 Years Later: His Life and Legacy
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYJean Jaurès, who consistently countered the rise of militarism and opposed the war, was assassinated July 31, 1914, by a right-wing fanatic. Days later, World War I began the French socialists supported it.
60s New Left: National and International
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYI saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked....yacketayakking screaming vomiting whispering facts and memories and anecdotes and eyeball kicks and shocks of hospitals and jails and wars, whole intellects disgorged in total recall for seven days and nights with brilliant eyes, —from Ginsberg’s Howl