{"id":86,"date":"2019-07-05T12:37:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T10:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maj68.zrc-sazu.si\/?page_id=86"},"modified":"2019-11-18T12:39:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T11:39:04","slug":"from-may-1968-to-november-1989","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/maj68.zrc-sazu.si\/en\/from-may-1968-to-november-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"From May 1968 to November 1989: Transformations of the World, Literature and Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

International Conference <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Short title: TL68-89
<\/strong>Dates: 7\u20138 November 2019
Location: Atrium ZRC<\/a>, Novi trg 2, Ljubljana <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organizer: Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary\nStudies ZRC SAZU<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organizing Committee: Marko Juvan, Marijan Dovi\u0107, Andra\u017e Je\u017e (all ZRC\nSAZU), Ale\u0161 Gabri\u010d (Institute of Contemporary History).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conference topic<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Conference will intervene in the study of the global student and\nlabour movement that erupted in May 1968 by systematically analyzing two\nlargely neglected but key aspects: the dimensions of the literary and of the\nsemi-peripheral. It will seek to analyze the ways in which critical theory and\nlate modernist, neo-avant-garde literature were related to these protests\nwhich, opposing institutional politics of the late sixties and early seventies,\nstruggled for the socioeconomic transformation of both the capitalist\nworld-system and its second-world socialist alternative. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Conference will compare developments in Paris, the core of the\nmodern literary world-system and the global exporter of theory, and other capitalist\nmetropolises and those in the socialist Ljubljana and other cities of literary\nsemi-periphery that, nevertheless, kept up with France by producing a theory\nthat came to be recognized worldwide (the Ljubljana School of Lacanian\nPsychoanalysis) and a literary and artistic neo-avant-garde that, together with\nother contributions from the global (semi)periphery, revitalized the immunized\nmodernism of the Western core (e.g., the ludism and conceptualism of the OHO\ngroup).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the last phase of modernism faded together with the student and labour\nmovement, this was followed in the core of the world-system by postmodernism in\naesthetics and neo-conservatism in politics, while in Slovenia and other\nYugoslav republics, the last season of modernism was followed by the\nsocioeconomic and cultural crisis of the self-management experiment, the bloody\ndisintegration of the federation, and the emergence of independent successor\nstates. The speakers at the Conference will address the question of how the\nconjuncture of 1968, whose struggle to transform the world seemed to have\nfailed, led to that of 1989, which transformed the world by announcing the end\nof the utopia that had inspired 1968.  (Marko Juvan and Jernej Habjan)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The programme includes 22 short papers by Slovenian and foreign participants, the opening of an exhibition entitled The Last Season of Modernism: May \u201968 in Literature and Theory<\/em>, and social events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n