1968 in Japan, Germany and the U.S.
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Wolfgang Brenn
Wolfgang Brenn is heading the project management (conference division) of the Japanese-German Center Berlin (JDZB). Before joining the Center he was a Visiting Professor at Rikkyo University, Tokyo (1986-91, Lektorat of the German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD), and teaching at the University of Tokyo (1987-91). He studied German literature, politics and philosophy at Marburg and Frankfurt University and finished his studies with the first and second state examinations for senior high school teachers. Mr Brenn completed his PhD at Frankfurt University in German literature. After his studies he lectured at the University of Liverpool (DAAD-Lektorat, 1982-84) and at the University of Frankfurt (1985-86), where he also pursued research on British ‘Germanistik’ during National Socialism (DAAD research grant). 2004-06 he took leave from the JDZB and joined the Foreign Office to support the staff of the German Embassy in Tokyo for “Germany in Japan 2005/2006”.

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Martin Klimke
is Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow for North American History at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC and Research Fellow at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg. His research focuses on the intersection of political and cultural history, as well as transnational history. Trained at the University of Göttingen, Amherst College and the University of Heidelberg, he is the author of "The Other Alliance: Global Protest and Student Unrest in West Germany and the U.S., 1962-1972" (Princeton University Press, 2009). He is also co-editor of the publication series "Protest, Culture and Society" (Berghahn Books), as well as editor of "1968 in Europe: A History of Protest and Activism, 1956-77" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and "1968. Ein Handbuch zur Kultur- und Mediengeschichte" (Metzler, 2007; BpB 2008). He has taught at Amherst College, Rutgers University, the University of Heidelberg, and the University of Göttingen. Since 2006 he has been the coordinator of the international research network "European Protest Movements Since 1945," which is supported by the European Union. He is currently co-authoring a book with Maria Höhn on African American GIs, Germany, and the Struggle for Civil Rights.

Yoshie Mitobe (1968-), Dr. (politics), part-time lecturer at the dpartment of politics and economics, Meiji University of Tokio.

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Joachim Scharloth
is Privatdozent at the University of Zurich and visiting professor of German Linguistics at the University of Freiburg (Germany). He is co-editor of the publication series "Protest, Culture and Society" (Berghahn Books), as well as of various books on the 1968 movements in European countries: "1968 in Europe: A History of Protest and Activism, 1956-77" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), "1968. Ein Handbuch zur Kultur- und Mediengeschichte" (Metzler, 2007; BpB 2008) and "Der Zürcher Sommer 1968. Zwischen Krawall, Utopie und Bürgersinn" (NZZ-Libro 2008). He is currently preparing the publication of two digital text corpora on the 1968 movements in Germany and Switzerland and has co-edited an edition of primary sources of the 1968 movement in Zurich.
He is co-founder of the "Interdisciplinary Research Forum on Protest Movements, Activism and Social Dissent" and scientist in charge of the Marie-Curie-Project "European Protest Movements since 1945", funded by the European Union.
His research on 1968 focusses on the cultural impact of the political movement form the 1960s to the 1980s. Beyond that, his areas of specialization are language history, computer and corpus linguistics, as well as performance studies.

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Laura Elizabeth Wong
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, she holds a Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University. She holds an undergraduate degree in history, summa cum laude, from the University of California at Berkeley. She has also studied at the University of Hong Kong and the University of Tokyo Institute for Social Science Research.
Her work experience outside of the university includes political consulting for the government of Hong Kong and UNESCO’s Bureau of Strategic Planning in Paris.
Now raising a family in Stuttgart, Germany, she is an affiliated researcher at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies at Heidelberg University, the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies at Harvard University, and a visiting lecturer at the European School of Business, Reutlingen University, Germany. She continues to serve as a consultant to UNESCO.

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