24/04/1968 Protestando contra a participação dos Estados Unidos na Guerra do Vietnã, estudantes da Universidade da Columbia invadem a faculdade. Columbia 1968 and the World: A 40th Anniversary Event April 24-27, 2008 This spring marks the 40th anniversary of the 1968 student protests at Columbia University. A group of alumni participants, working with faculty and students, has developed a program for a three-day conference to reexamine those events from a wide range of viewpoints and in the context of what was happening in 1968 in the country and the world. The conference will provide a chance for people who lived through that period to reconnect, reconcile, and reflect. And it will engage current students in a discussion about issues of war, race, and the role of the universityissues that are still with us 40 years later. Speakers include Ti-Grace Atkinson, Paul Auster, Akeel Bilgrami, Lee Bollinger, Ray Brown, Kathleen Cleaver, Lewis Cole, Todd ...