INTERVENTION 1968-2018 What is left? Achievements and burdens of a political awakening
The international protest movement of 1968 had a local West German focus in Frankfurt. 50 years later, the revolt seems to be a cause for either idealizing nostalgia or furious defamation. Time to ask what “68” still has to say to us today.
What can we learn from the protests of 2018 in Europe? What has remained of the uprising and the awakening, and what should be carried forward politically into the future? Do we need a political renaissance? What social incrustations must we revolt against today – and with what moral legitimacy?
The Römerberg Talks take the historical anniversary as an opportunity for current and personal self-assurance: What changes do we need today, and to what extent do the experiences of the global protest movement of 1968 help or hinder us?
10:15 – Armin Nassehi
Reflection and moralization as a pose – what remains of 1968
11:15 – Priska Daphi
What does protest culture look like today?
12:15 – Ulrich Herbert
Reform and revolt – 1968 in diachronic and transnational perspective
13:00 – LUNCH BREAK
14:15 – Wolfgang Kraushaar
The benefits and disadvantages of the history of 1968 for left-wing politics
15:30 – Christina von Hodenberg and Gisela Notz in conversation
How emancipatory was 1968?
17:00 – Martin Saar
What was (and is) the “democratization of democracy”?
18:00 – END
