Aborder les organisations étudiantes de la guerre froide par le biais de l’histoire sociale/Tackling Cold War Student Organisations through Social History- Fribourg

Exposition «L’étudiant dans la lutte pour le progrès. Congrès international des étudiants du 17 novembre Musée national de Prague.

Tackling Cold War Student Organisations through Social History 20-21 November 2025, Fribourg (Switzerland)

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Programme ci-dessous et en pdf

Thursday, 20 November

9.00-10.30 Students Against Dictatorship and Socio-Economic Inequalities

Discussant: Franziska Zaugg

Ioannis Brigkos, University of Vienna Students, Surveillance, and Solidarity: Greek Anti-Junta Activism in Austria during the Cold War

Daniel Canales Ciudad, University of Girona “Other Third Worlds on your doorstep”: Student volunteering and the discovery of underdevelopment in Franco’s Spain

Patrick Smylie, University of Westminster Unlikely Allies: Students and Working-Class Youth Mobilisation in late 1940s Dublin

11.00-12.30 Anti-Imperialism in the Global 1960s

Discussant: Mikuláš Pešta

Vincenzo Colaprice, University Roma Tre An Imagined Community of Anti-Imperialist Youth? The WFDY and Transnational Student Activism in the Global 1960s

Guadalupe Seia, University of Buenos Aires and Nayla Pis Diez, University of La Plata Universities as Battlegrounds: Student Movement against Cultural Imperialism in Latin America during the Cold War (1960s–1970s)

Amirpasha Tavakkoli, Sciences Po Toulouse A Forgotten History: Confederation of Iranian Students and the “Making of Global 1968”

14.30-16.00 Foreign Students: Mobility and Cold War Internationalism

Discussant: Lidia Lesnykh

Jules Siran, University of Geneva Activist or Reluctant Internationalism? The Hungarian Communist Youth Union and the Reception of Foreign Students (1960s–1990s)

Lucie Lamy, Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam West German Student Associations, Mobile Students and the Global Cold War

Derya Bozat, University of Bern Red Island, Red East: Malagasy Students in the Soviet Union, 1975–1991

17.30-18.45 Keynote conference of James Mark, University of Exeter

“Racing” Eurasia: Communist Internationalism and Student Mobility since the 1950s

Friday, 21 November

9.00-10.30 Student Activism in France: Transnational Perspective

Discussant: Robi Morder

Ombeline Bois, University Paul Valéry Montpellier Vietnamese Student Organisations in France (1955-1975): Navigating Diasporic Diplomacy and Transnational Struggles

Sara Legrandjacques, Sorbonne University Between French Walls: Organising Indian Students at the Maison de l’Inde, late 1960s-early 1990s

Annalise Walkama, University of Idaho The Corsican Vacation: A Social History of Deported Refugee Students During the 1960 Soviet State Visit to France

10.45-12.00 Keynote Konstantin Katsakioris “Nationalism and Ethnic Conflicts among African Students in the Soviet Union”

13.15-14.15 Student Media as a Space of Mobilisation

Discussant: Matthieu Gillabert

Janik Hollnagel, Lisa-Frederike Seidler, Freie Universität Berlin Conflict and Collaboration. Students at the Freie Universität Berlin (FU) in the 1980s

Maxime Dulau, Université Bordeaux Montaigne Students of Atlanta in the Midst of the Sixties and the Rise of Radical Feminism: A Local Evolution Around a National Cause