Online via Zoom; 11am-12:30pm 

Professor Robert Savage will draw from a course he is teaching in Venice on 1968, a very eventful year of the 1960s. Topics will include the ‘Tet offensive’ in Vietnam, an event that shocked the American public and signaled the beginning of the end for America’s war in Southeast Asia; the protest movements that developed in the U.S. that opposed the war and supported civil rights for all Americans; and, in Europe, the beginning of the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’ and the ‘Prague Spring’ that crushed the hopes of people throughout Eastern Europe who were eager for an end to repressive communist regimes. In addition to turbulent politics, he will also discuss the emergence of an innovative form of popular music that helped define the decade.