{"id":6111,"date":"2025-01-23T15:57:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T14:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/?post_type=events&p=6111"},"modified":"2025-01-28T12:27:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T11:27:41","slug":"who-made-may-day","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/events\/who-made-may-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Who made May Day? Early research into the Globalization of the First of May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\nResearch seminar with Andrew Pfannkuche.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are countless days every year with internationalist and universal pretentions, what sets May Day apart is its success. May Day\u2019s global impact and cross-cultural participation, often in spite of local elites, sets it further apart from its would-be competitors. It has been\u2014and still is\u2014celebrated by Anarchists in Tunisia, Socialists in Argentina, and Communists in India because these groups, despite all their differences, share a common international and socialist culture. May Day\u2019s importance in this culture makes the question of who \u201cmade\u201d it so relevant; who is responsible for this shared socialist symbol? Based on early research into the spread of May Day, this presentation sets the stakes of the debate over the origins and spread of May Day and traces the competing global and national narratives of the day\u2019s early history. Tracing these narratives alongside the spread of May Day across the globe shows how interwoven the cultural worlds of international socialists are and explains why the day has succeeded in becoming one the great symbols of the struggle for social justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Pfannkuche<\/a> is a doctoral researcher at the C\u00b2DH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n