13h30: Introduction
13h40: Students and internationalism in the interwar years
- Tamson Pietsch (Sydney / Brunel): The Floating University: educational travel and international politics, 1926-27
- Daniel Laqua (Northumbria): A new generation within a new world order: student activism as a form of interwar internationalism
- Georgina Brewis (IOE): Service, self-help and international understanding: the work of European Student Relief / International Student Service between the World Wars
- Chair: Tim Kirk (Newcastle)
15h10: Coffee break
15h30: Radical activism in and beyond the 1960s
- Sarah Webster (Manchester): British students and transnational solidarity in Cold War Britain: activism beyond the NUS
- Sylvia Ellis (Northumbria): Britihs student activism and the international protests against the Vietnam War
- Say Burgin (Leeds): 'We must understand how sexism, racism and imperialism are connected': Boston's free schools and anti-imperialist feminism in the 1970s
- Chair: Martyn Smith (Newcastle)
17h00 Conclusion
- Brian Ward (Northumbria)
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