Gjesteforelesing: Media og protestbevegelsen under den kalde krigen
Professor Klimke er tilknyttet Centre of American Studies ved universitetet i Heidelberg, og er for tiden forsker ved German Institute i Washington. Se Klimkes nettside
Forelesningen går fredag 10. september kl. 12.15-14.00 i Berte Kanutte-huset, store auditorium.
Engelsk omtale:
Lecture: Friday September 10, Berthe Kanutte Store auditorium – 12.15-14.00
Title: An Ambivalent Partnership: Media and Protest Movements during the Cold War
- From Street Demonstrations to Mouse Click
In recent years, the significance of the internet and social media sites (e.g. youtube, facebook and twitter) for opposition movements in repressive regime such as China or Iran has been a topic of a broad political and academic debate. At the same time, the fundamental role of the “traditional” media, journalists and visual representation for the political and social transformations during the 20th century is all too often forgotten.
This talk focuses on how the media shaped and advanced both the African American struggle for civil rights since the 1930s and the protest movements of the 1960/70s. It will illustrate the ambivalent relationship between activists and the established media, as well as the impact of alternative media structures and organizations.
A particular emphasis will be laid on the transnational diffusion of protest cultures and techniques through the globalized media landscape and an international youth and pop culture that emerged during the Cold War. Exploring the historical impact of these two case studies will illuminate the lessons and limits for the media strategies of today’s protest movements.
Prestenstasjon of prof. Klimke
Martin Klimke is a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC, and at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies at the University of Heidelberg. He is the author of The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press) and A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany (New York/London: Palgrave Macmillan, together with Maria Höhn). Among other publications, he is the co-editor of 1968 in Europe: A History of Protest and Activism, 1956-1977 (New York/London: Palgrave Macmillan) and Changing the World, Changing Oneself: Political Protest and Collective Identities in the U.S. and West Germany during the 1960/70s (Oxford/New York: Berghahn Books) and the publication series “Protest, Culture, and Society”.
Klimke has been the coordinator the Marie Curie project “European Protest Movements Since 1945” supported by the European Union and is now co-directing the research projects and digital archives The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany and the The Nuclear Crisis: Transatlantic Peace Politics, Nuclear Armament, and the Second Cold War. He is the recipient of the 2006 Ruprecht-Karls-Prize of the University of Heidelberg and the 2009 NAACP Julius E. Williams Distinguished Community Service Award.