Monday, Nov. 10

Music and Art in 1968

“Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll: An Homage to Radical Counterculture in 1968”

5-6 p.m., Art Gallery, Pullen Hall

“The Art and Music of 1968”

6:30-9 p.m., St. John Room

Slide show: Clifton Boudman

Musicians: Jeff Lovejoy, Carol Ayoob, Jake Stewart, Dan Ross and others

Tuesday, Nov. 11

Vietnam Forty Years Later

Round-table discussion with Carol Hawkins, President Don Zillman, UMaine System Chancellor Richard Pattenaude, veterans

6:30-7:30 p.m., St. John Room

Wednesday, Nov. 12

1968: Science and Exploration

Slide show on the Apollo Mission, presentation on deep ocean studies and advances in chemistry in 1968

Melissa Standley, Jim Stepp, Mike Knopp, Kevin McCartney

6-8 p.m., Pullen 210

Thursday, Nov. 13

The World and 1968

Panel discussion about how events of 1968 played out in Africa, Europe and Asia. Discussion will be followed by a showing of the movie “Bobby.”

Film introduction Richard Zuras, panel members: Reginald Nnazor, Claire Davidshofer, Bill Davidshofer, John Zaborney, Tomasz Herzog

Discussion 6-7 p.m., film 7:30 p.m., Pullen 210

Friday, Nov. 14

1968 Through the Eyes of One Journalist:

Conversation with Richard Dudman.

6:30-7:30, St. John Room

Saturday, Nov. 15

1968-2008, Years of Transition

Folsom Hall 105

Session I 9-10 a.m.

“The Role of the University and 1968”: John DeFelice

“The University: 1968 and 2008”: Tomasz Herzog

Session II 10-11 a.m.

“The Enemy of My Enemy Was My Friend: Ho Chi Minh, World War II, and the Quarter-Century U.S. Road to Tet ’68”: John Zaborney

“The Tunnels of Cu Chi”: Andy Giles

“The Green Revolution”: Patric Edward

Break 11-11:15 a.m.

Session III 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

“Races of Preference”: Todd Russell

“Second Wave Feminism”: Alice Sheppard

“Women and Race”: Shawn Cunningham

Lunch 12:15-2 p.m.

Session IV 2-3:30 p.m.

“Capitalism, Schizophrenia and Zombies: Or, Why George A. Romero Can’t Go Home Again”: Ray Rice

“The Failure of the Brechtian Aesthetic in Godard’s ‘Sympathy for the Devil'”: Eric Pelkey

“Burn, Baby, Burn! Gillo’s Inferno”: Ted van Alst

Screening: “Burn! (aka Queimada)”