The Global Sixties Colloquium provides a platform for scholars to present their latest research, work-in-progress, projects, and publications related to the global sixties. This seminar series aims to encourage scholarly discussions and facilitate diverse perspectives about this pivotal period in history among scholars from across the world. The colloquium will take place on Zoom. If you would like to participate as a speaker in the colloquium, and for general inquiries, please contact Nisha Zacharia at njz228@nyu.edu.

To register for individual sessions, please see below.

Upcoming Talks

  • Poster Credits: OSPAAL Archive | Rostgaard, Alfrédo Tricontinental conference / 3rd anniversary 1968

    Concretizing the Revolutionary Utopia through Art in Latin America: Chilean New Song and OSPAAAL

    Natália Ayo Schmiedecke
    University of Hamburg
    09 April 2024

  • To See and Write Vietnam: Socialist Regimes of Visibility in Poland

    Thuc Linh Nguyen Vu
    Harvard University / University of Vienna
    07 May 2024

Past Talks

  • Global Sixties and the Making of Bangladesh

    Subho Basu
    McGill University
    05 March 2024

  • 1968 Karachi : Youth, Class and Spatial Practices in Pakistan’s Largest Metropolis

    Anab Jafri
    FU Berlin/NYU Abu Dhabi
    20 February 2024

  • Reading the Revolution: Militant Print Culture and Transnational Organizing in the 1960s

    Sarah K. Miles
    UNC, Chapel Hill
    05 December 2023

  • UNESCO, Human Capital Theory, and African Independence in the 1960s

    Elisa Prosperetti

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    21 November 2023