We are delighted to announce the programme for our event "From Student Unions to Trade Unions: Campus-Based Activism and Beyond". This conference is supported by the Society for the Study of Labour History (SSLH). It will take place over two days (12 and 13 January) in Newcastle upon Tyne, followed by some online sessions on 27 January. For further information, please contact Daniel Laqua (daniel.laqua@northumbria.ac.uk) or register via this link (individual sign-up for each day).
From Student Unions to Trade Unions:
Campus-Based Activism and Beyond
12–13 January 2023 (Newcastle upon Tyne) and 27 January 2023 (online)
Thursday 12 January
15h00
– Welcome Session
·
Daniel Laqua
(Associate Professor of European History, Northumbria University) – Introduction
·
Georgina Brewis (Professor of Social History, University College
London) – New research into archiving and record keeping practices in UK
student union
15h20
– International Students (chair: Emily
Sharp, PhD Candidate in History,
Northumbria University)
·
Edward Anderson
(Assistant Professor in History, Northumbria University) – Anti-Imperialism,
Student Politics, and Memorialisation: Indian Students in Newcastle at the
Twilight of the British Empire
·
Jodi Burkett
(Senior Lecturer in History, Portsmouth University) – In Service of the
Community or the State? Overseas Students and Language Provision [online]
16h20
– Coffee, Tea and Cake
16h35
– Protest in the ‘Long 1970s’ (chair:
Sam Blaxland, ‘Generation UCL’
Fellow, University College London)
·
Frederick Coombes (PhD Candidate in African History, University of
Leeds) – ‘I Was Really Privileged’: The Ambiguities of Protest in the Face of
Repression, Deportation and Incarceration around l’Université de Dakar,
1966–1973
·
Chris Perkins
(Senior Lecturer in Japanese, University of Edinburgh) – Japan’s 1968 on Trial
·
Sarah Campbell
(Senior Lecturer in Irish and British History, Newcastle University) – ‘The
Lines Have Been Drawn’: The H-Block Protest and Student Activism in Northern
Ireland, 1977–1981
18h00
– End of Day 1
Friday
13 January
9h20
– Arrival / Coffee and Tea
9h35
– Confronting Political Change (chair:
Charlotte Alston, Professor of
History, Northumbria University)
·
Rory Hanna
(PhD Candidate in History, University of Sheffield) – Between Solidarity and
Scepticism: West German Students and Afro-Asian Activism, 1956–1962
·
Emily Sharp
(PhD Candidate in History, Northumbria University) – British Students and the
Practice of Solidarity in the 1970s and 1980s
·
Anne HEFFERNAN (Assistant Professor in
Southern African History, Durham University) – Students in (the) Transition:
How Student Movements Navigated South Africa’s Political Transition into the
Post-Apartheid Era
11h00
– Coffee and Tea
11h15
Beyond University Students (chair: Georgina
Brewis, Professor of Social History,
University College London)
·
George Bodie
(Lecturer in History, Goldsmiths College) – ‘A Terrible Blow to All National
Liberation Movements’: The Cuban Missile Crisis through the Eyes of African
Trade Unionist-Students in Berlin, 1962
·
Laura Tisdall
(NUAcT Fellow in History, Newcastle University) – The National Union of School
Students (NUSS) and Age-Based Activism in Cold War Britain
12h15
– Lunch
13h10
– Protest and Subversion Today (chair: Linsey
Robb, Associate Professor of
British History, Northumbria University)
·
Jean-Thomas Martelli (Research Fellow, International Institute for Asian
Studies, Leiden University) – Can the Popular Disembody Populism? Students and
the Re-appropriation of the Nationalist Floating Signifier in Contemporary
Indian Politics
·
Heather McKnight
(Magnetic Ideals Collective, Brighton) – Reimagining the University through
Resistance: The Prefigurative Possibilities of Joint Working, Protest and Academic
Freedom
14h10
– Coffee and Tea
14h30
– Personal and Political Trajectories (chair:
James Koranyi, Associate Professor
of History, Durham University)
·
Andreea Dahlquist
(Romanian Association for Baltic and Nordic Studies) – Fascist Activism in the Interwar
Years: From Student Movement to Political Militantism in the Shadow of the
Romanian-Polish Alliance [co-authored paper, with Bogdan-Alexandru Schipor (Senior Researcher in
Contemporary History, A.D. Xenopol History Institute of the Romanian Academy)]
·
Dan Hodgkinson
(Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Oxford) – Living with Ruins:
Past Dreams and Their Personal Effects at the End of the Cold War in Zimbabwe
·
Safia Dahani (Postdoctoral Fellow, École des
hautes études en sciences sociales / Centre européen de sociologie et de
science politique, Paris) – A New Branch of Political Recruitment? The
Recent Conversion of FAGE Leaders in the French Political Field
15h55
– End of Day 2 (closing words: Daniel Laqua, Associate Professor of European History,
Northumbria University)
Friday
27 January
10h40 – Online Panel 1: Students and Social Movements
·
Opening / Reflections on in-person
events
·
Antonin Dubois (EHESS Paris / Université de
Franche-Comté) – Should Students Unionise? Debates on
Trade-Unionism among French Students, 1900–1946
·
Giuseppe Lipari (PhD Candidate, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence) –
School Student Unions and Trade Unions in the Mobilisations of 2014–2015 in
Italy
11h50 – Lunch Break
12h40 – Online Panel 2: Student Lives
·
Ellen R. Dixon (PhD Candidate in International Relations, Te Herenga
Waka – Victoria University of Wellington / President, New Zealand Union of Students’
Associations), Jacqueline Watt (PhD
Student in Social Anthropology
Massey
University / Co-President, Massey @ Distance Students’ Association) and Gwen Palmer Steeds (Researcher and Equity
Officer, Victoria University of Wellington Students’ Association) – In-Debted Lives: The Political Ecology of
the Campaigns Against Student Debt in Aotearoa New Zealand
·
Sarah Crook (Senior Lecturer in British History, Swansea
University) – Building the Healthy Campus: Students and Mental Health Activism
in 1960s and 1970s Britain
·
Discussant:
Heather Ellis (Vice-Chancellor’s
Fellow, School of Education, Sheffield University)
13h50 – Break
14h05 – Online Panel 3: Students and
(Inter-)National Politics
·
Miroslav Vašík (PhD Candidate in History, Charles University Prague)
– Czech Students in the 1848 Revolution: Connecting Prague and the Countryside?
·
Ana-Maria Stan (Senior Researcher in History, Babeş-Bolyai University
of Cluj-Napoca) – La Petite Entente des Étudiants: An Example of Student
Activism and Student Diplomacy in Interwar Eastern Europe
·
Nikhil Tiwari (Ph.D. Candidate, Centre for East Asian Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University) – Inquiry into the Role of Student Movements in
Taiwan’s Democratisation and Democratic Consolidation
·
Discussant:
Ljubica Spaskovska (Lecturer in
European History, University of Exeter)
15h30 – Break
15h45 – Launch Event
·
Daniel Laqua (Associate Professor of European History, Northumbria
University) and Nikolaos Papadogiannis
(Lecturer in European History, Stirling University) – Youth and
Internationalism in the Twentieth Century: Special Journal Issue of Social
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