Event Host: Mershon Center for International Security Studies
After so many years, one forgets that 1968 in France was primarily a general strike that mobilized about 10 million people including more than 7 million employees and workers. It has been also neglected that one of the characteristics of the event was the occupations of workplaces and public spaces: factories, companies, offices, stations, harbors, post offices, theaters, houses of the culture, youth centers, secondary schools and universities. What deeply animated this movement was the great hope of "changing life," to imagine a more egalitarian society, justice and emancipation. This talk will underscore the innumerable projects that were forged by the protagonists of the social and political movement: sometimes modest visions of reforms, sometimes a revolutionary but always precise imagination.
Ludivine Bantigny is a historian, assistant professor at the University of Rouen Normandy, and associate researcher at the Sciences Po Paris History Center. For more information on this event and to register, click here.