Hello listeners! We welcome you to an exciting feature for Byte Sized History. The following five episodes are student discussions about their research into the French student and worker protests of May 1968. The podcast recording was an assignment in Dr. Deborah Bauer’s Spring 2018 class; Modern France and the French Empire. Dr. Bauer’s main areas of research lie in France and the French Empire, with a strong emphasis on the history of intelligence and empire. You can learn more about her, as well as the classes she teaches, in her bio on the History Department’s web page. In the meantime, we encourage you to listen to her introduction of this fascinating topic prior to listening to the student’s episodes. In the first episode in this series, we hear from Devon Black, Ann Brake, Haley Dillion, Michael Gerardot, and Tynan Easterday, who will offer some background on the causes of student and worker protests, and will introduce listeners to the student leader Dany the Red. *Please be aware, the sound on this recording is a bit softer than the rest of the episodes. Bre Anne Briskey, Lexy Crebb, Steven Stevenson, Sam Lyon, and Sarah Adams present research on the relationship between students and workers during the May ’68 protests, noting the lack of unity among the different groups. Additionally, they discuss the art that came out of the movement, demonstrating that May ’68 was important not only for the words and actions of the protestors, but also for the images that it produced. Amara Scheitlin, Jake Pulver, Arie Friedrich, and Aaron Webb, allow listeners a taste of the internationalism of the May ’68 movement. This episode reflects on Dany the Red’s background as a German Jew, and also discusses the influence of French colonialism in places like Vietnam and Algeria, along with the rise of pro-Communist sentiments, as playing a part in the discontent rife in French society in the 1960s. Garett Chrisman, Garrett McDermott, Damon Staub, and Nick Storck, discuss the ideological background of the protests, confronting the role of communism in the movement, and raising the question of whether or not the events of May ’68 can be considered a proper “revolution.” Erika Hall, Alec Guenin, and Mason Leininger direct our focus to connections between the events in Paris, and the reality of the Vietnam War waging on the other side of the world, looking at the French role, and at the inspiration that French protestors took from international opposition to the war.
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