Talks &
Events

2019:

• 06/04: “The Global Sixties,” with Mary Nolan, Book Presentation, NYU Berlin

2018:

• 11/30-12/01/18: “The Globalization of the Sixties,” International Conference, “Global Sixties: Transnational Connectivity and Global Consciousness,” Institute of Global Studies, Shanghai University

• 10/09/2018: Panel Discussion, “A World Transformed? Reassessing 1968 and the Global Sixties,” NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, NYU New York (video)

• 10/5-6, 2018: “The Globalization of the Sixties,” International Conference, “The Legacy of 1968,” Harvard Center for European Studies, Harvard University

• 06/14-15, 2018: “‘Power and Mission’ – American Foreign Policy,” Panel Chair, International Conference, “Transatlantic Crossings: A Symposium in Honor of Detlef Junker,” Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg University

• 06/01, 2018: Colloquium in Honor of Mary Nolan, NYU Berlin

• 05/24-26/2018: “A Vision of Politics/The Politics of Vision: 1968 and Since,” International Conference at NYU Berlin, co-convened by Ara Merjian (NYU New York) and Martin Klimke (NYU Abu Dhabi)

• 04/09/2018: Global Conversations, NYU New York

• 04/07/2018: “Dr. Martin Luther King and Cold War Berlin,” Invited Lecture, Vassar College

• 04/03/2018:“The Global Sixties,” Book Launch Event, Shanghai

• 01/17, 2018: “The Global Sixties,” Invited Lecture, University of Marburg

2017:

• 02/21, 2017: “Historicizing the 1980s: The Nuclear Crisis,” SFS-Qatar, Georgetown University

2016:

• 12/04, 2016: “The Global Sixties and the Middle East,” International Conference at Waseda University, Tokyo, “Islam and Multiculturalism: History, Challenges and Prospects,” co-convened by Keiko Sakurai, Sadashi Fukuda, Takayuki Yoshimura (Waseda University), Nasrudin Bin Md Akhir, Siti Rohaini Binti Kassim (University of Malaya), Martin Klimke, Justin Stearns (NYUAD)

• 09/19-21, 2016: “Revisiting 1968 and the Global Sixties II,” NYU Abu Dhabi (co-convened by Jian Chen, Joanna Waley-Cohen (NYUSH), Mary Nolan, Marilyn Young (NYUNY), Masha Kirasirova, Martin Klimke (NYUAD))

• 03/13-15, 2016: “Revisiting 1968 and the Global Sixties I,” NYU Shanghai (co-convened by Jian Chen, Joanna Waley-Cohen (NYUSH), Mary Nolan, Marilyn Young (NYUNY), Masha Kirasirova, Martin Klimke (NYUAD))

2015:

• 11/01-03: Conference, “Islam in Global Perspective,” NYU Abu Dhabi (co-convened by Keiko Sakurai, Sadashi Fukuda, Takayuki Yoshimura (Waseda University), Nasrudin Bin Md Akhir, Siti Rohaini Binti Kassim (University of Malaya), Martin Klimke, Justin Stearns (NYUAD))

• 05/19-21: Conference, “Rethinking Historical Space,” NYU Abu Dhabi (co-convened by Martin Klimke, David Ludden, Lauren Minsky, and Mark Swislocki)

• 05/12: Panel Discussion, “Meet The Author: Eugen Ruge,” Abu Dhabi International Book Fair 2015

• 05/11: Panel Discussion, “The Berlin Wall: 25 Years After the Fall,” with Eugen Ruge and Gabriele Landwehr, organized by the Goethe Institut, Abu Dhabi International Book Fair 2015

• 03/29: Workshop, “The Great War and the Great Prohibitions: Temperance and Alcohol Regimes in Russia, Canada, the USA, and the Islamic World” (organized by the NYUAD History & Arab Crossroad Programs, the NYUNY History Department, and the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia)

2014:

• 12/13-14: Conference, “Exploring Islamic Studies within a Symbiotic Framework,” Asia-Europe Center, University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur (co-convened with the Organization of Islamic Studies at Waseda University, Tokyo and the Asia-Europe Center, University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur)

• 11/30-12/02: “The Peripheries of World War I: New Methodological and Spatial Perspectives,” Workshop (II) at the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, Abu Dhabi, Convener: Valerie Deacon (NYUNY), Martin Klimke (NYUAD), Andrew Patrick (Tennessee State University)

• 11/20-21: “Media and the Cold War, 1975-1991,” International conference at Volda University College, Norway, Convener: Rolf Werenskjold (Volda University), Henrik G. Bastiansen (Volda University), Martin Klimke (NYUAD)

• 09/13: “Dr. Martin Luther King’s Visit to Berlin, 1964,” Keynote for the 50th Anniversary of King’s Visit to Berlin, Berlin Senate/Rotes Rathaus & St. Mary’s Church, Berlin

• 07/02: Panel Discussion: “Restaging the USA: Positionsbestimmungen von Kunst und Wissenschaft nach Abzug des US-Militärs aus Heidelberg,” Theater Heidelberg

• 04/14-16: “The Peripheries of World War I: New Methodological and Spatial Perspectives,” Workshop (I) at the New York University, NYC /NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, Abu Dhabi, Convener: Valerie Deacon (NYUNY), Martin Klimke (NYUAD), Andrew Patrick (Tennessee State University)

• 04/10-13: “Rethinking the Boundaries of the New Left in a Border-Crossing Age: Left Politics in the Long 1970s,” Panel at the 2014 OAH Annual Meeting, Atlanta (Chair/Commentator)

2012:

• 01/07/2012: “Heroes of the Other America: East German Solidarity with the Black Freedom Struggle,” Panel “Global Connections among Struggles for Racial Justice: Britain, Germany, South Africa, and the United States,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago

• 01/07/2012: “Fighting for Equality: Children’s and Teenagers’ Activism during the Black Freedom Struggle,” Panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago (Chair/Commentator)

• 03/20/2012: “The New Left in Europe,” Lecture, New York University

• 05/01/2012: “The Nuclear Crisis: Cold War Cultures and the Politics of Peace and Security, 1975-1990,”Work in Progress Series, Arts & Humanities, New York University Abu Dhabi

• 06/28-30/2012: “The American Left and Global Revolution Since the 1960s,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Hartford, Connecticut (Chair/Commentator)

• 01/03-06/2012: “(Re)fashioning and (Re)negotiating Race and Identity in the Postwar Germanies,” Proposed Panel for Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New Orleans (Chair)

2011:

• 12/06/2011: “The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany & the United States in the Global Sixties,” Institute of International Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

• 12/08/2011: “Transnational Diplomacy: Grassroots Challenges to U.S. Foreign Policy during the Cold War,” Department of International History, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland