Workshop

Power to the People: The Legacies of 1968

Thursday & Friday, October 2-3, 2008

Venue: Building 20,Room 5, Communications Centre (opposite Library and coffee shop) University of Wollongong.

Sponsored by the Faculty of Arts at the University of Wollongong, the Gramsci Society (Asia-Pacific), the Illawarra Branch of the Australian Labour History Society, Wollongong University Undergraduate Students’ Association, the South Coast Labour Council.

For catering purposes, please RSVP Anthony Ashbolt.

Contact: Dr Anthony Ashbolt

Program

Thursday 2 October

1.00-1.15
Welcome
Prof Andrew Wells, Dean of the Faculty of Arts

1.15-2.15
The Labour Movement
Diane Fieldes, Jack Mundey
Chair: Terry Irving

2.15-3.30
The Legacies of 1968
Nick Southall, Dave Eden, Mark Gawne,
Chair: Charly Lindsay

3.30-3.45
Afternoon Tea

3.45-5.30
The Student Movement
Peter Cockcroft, Ron Witton, Tim Dobson, Jeremy Fisher
Chair: Jaq Dollard

5.15-5.45
Book Launch: ASIO The Enemy Within
Michael Tubbs’ book ASIO: The Enemy Within launched by Jack Mundey
Chair: Rowan Cahill

5.45-6.45
Sixties Musical Interlude

PARTY
Venue: The Illawarra Tennis Club, buses provided from the campus.
Hosted by the Wollongong University Undergraduate Students’ Association, The Education Collective and the South Coast Labour Council

Friday 3 October

9.30-10.00
Keynote
Raewyn Connell
Chair: Mike Donaldson

10.00-11.00
Resisting the Draft and Stopping the War
Michael Matteson, Hall Greenland
Chair: Mairi Petersen

11.00-11.15
Morning Tea

11.15-12.30
Communists and Conspiracies
Rowan Cahill, Doreen Borrow
Chair: Leanne Lindsay

12.30-1.15
LUNCH

1.15-2.30
Cultural Protest and Resistance
John Rainford, Anthony Ashbolt, Wendy Varney
Chair: Nick Southall

2.30-3.30
Anti-Racism
Meredith Burgmann, Fred Moore
Chair: John Rainford

3.30-3.45
Afternoon Tea

3.45-4.45
The Women’s Liberation Movement
Diana Covell, Siobhan McHugh
Chair: Patrick Kennedy Bates

4.45-5.15
Close
Arthur Rorris
Chair: Anthony Ashbolt

• Talks, 20 minutes per speaker, 20-30 minutes discussion

Getting to the University:

• http://www.uow.edu.au/about/maps.html
• http://www.uow.edu.au/about/location/
• http://www.uow.edu.au/about/transport/