The Global Sixties Colloquium provides a platform for scholars to present their latest research, work-in-progress, projects, and publications related to the global sixties. This seminar series aims to encourage scholarly discussions and facilitate diverse perspectives about this pivotal period in history among scholars from across the world. The colloquium will take place on Zoom. If you would like to participate as a speaker in the colloquium, and for general inquiries, please contact Nisha Zacharia at njz228@nyu.edu.

To register for individual sessions, please see below.

Upcoming Talks

  • The Controversial Role of Thich Nhat Hanh in the Vietnamese Diaspora

    Nguyet Nguyen
    University of Alaska Southeast
    26 November 2024

  • ROUNDTABLE / "Revolutionizing Transitions: 50 Years since the Democratization of Portugal and Greece"

    Guya Accornero, Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon
    Kostis Kornetis, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
    Nikolaos Papadogiannis, University of Stirling
    09 December 2024

  • Generative Repression: Radical Organizing and the State in Senegal and Congo after Independence

    Matthew Swagler
    Connecticut College
    11 February 2025

  • Black Internationalism, Oceania and the Caribbean

    Quito Swan
    The George Washington University
    4 March 2025

  • The Transnational Middle East: Women, Gender, and the Global 1960s in Tunisia

    Amy Aisen Kallander
    Syracuse University
    2 April 2025

Past Talks

  • To See and Write Vietnam: Socialist Regimes of Visibility in Poland

    Thuc Linh Nguyen Vu
    Harvard University / University of Vienna
    24 September 2024

  • Concretizing the Revolutionary Utopia through Art in Latin America: Chilean New Song and OSPAAAL

    Natália Ayo Schmiedecke
    University of Hamburg
    09 April 2024

  • Global Sixties and the Making of Bangladesh

    Subho Basu
    McGill University
    05 March 2024

  • 1968 Karachi : Youth, Class and Spatial Practices in Pakistan’s Largest Metropolis

    Anab Jafri
    FU Berlin/NYU Abu Dhabi
    20 February 2024

  • Reading the Revolution: Militant Print Culture and Transnational Organizing in the 1960s

    Sarah K. Miles
    UNC, Chapel Hill
    05 December 2023

  • UNESCO, Human Capital Theory, and African Independence in the 1960s

    Elisa Prosperetti

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    21 November 2023