All readings are compulsory. Students are expected to discuss readings in class, so students should do all assigned reading for each session before class.
Readings marked with an asterisk (*) are available in a compendium which can be bought at the Akademika bookstore at Blindern campus. Please bring your student ID card and registration confirmation with you when you buy compendiums.
1. The International System and 1968
*Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 180-94. 15 pages
*Arif Dirlik, “The Third World,” in 1968: The World Transformed, ed. Caroline Fink, Philipp Gassert, and Detlef Junker (Washington, DC: German Historical Institute and Cambridge University Press, 1998), 295-317. 23 pages
*Alan Brinkley, “1968 and the End of Liberal America,” in 1968: The World Transformed, ed. Caroline Fink, Philipp Gassert, and Detlef Junker (Washington, DC: German Historical Institute and Cambridge University Press, 1998), 219-36. 18 pages
Subtotal: 87 pages
2. Black, Red and Yellow
*Robin D. G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Radical Black Imagination (Boston: Beacon Press, 2002), 67-100. 34 pages
*Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013), 136-62. 28 pages
Subtotal: 89 pages
3. Religion and Globalization
*Melani McAlister, “The Body in Crisis: Congo and the Transformation of Evangelical Internationalism, 1960-65,” in Outside In: The Transnational Circuitry of US History, ed. Andrew Preston and Doug Rossinow (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 123-52. 30 pages
Subtotal: 86 pages
4. Gender and Transnationalism: 1968 and After
Subtotal: 75 pages
5. Interpreting 1968
*Doug Rossinow, “The New Left: The American Impress,” in Reframing 1968, ed. Martin Halliwell and Nick Witham (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2018). 32 pages
Subtotal: 108 pages
Total: 445 pages