Happy Birthday, Emma! Help us honor Emma Goldman's 150th birthday by joining us for a day of lectures and reflections on Goldman and the anarchist movement. Free and open to the public, but please register for this Emma Goldman symposium:
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MORNING SESSION
Reference Room, 2nd floor Hatcher Library
8:45-9:30 -- Coffee and gather
9:30-9:45 -- Welcome remarks
Julie Herrada, curator U-M Library's Labadie Collection
9:45-10:00 -- David Porter’s Vision on Fire
Daniel Schniedewind, son of the late David Porter who authored Vision on Fire: Emma Goldman on the Spanish Revolution
10:00-10:30 -- Emma Goldman’s Women
Kathy Ferguson, professor of political science and women's studies, University of Hawai'i
10:30-11:00 -- The Legacy of the Emma Goldman Papers Project
Candace Falk, Guggenheim fellow and founding director of the Emma Goldman Papers project at the University of California, Berkeley
11:00-11:30 -- The Commune in the Memoir: Recipes for Anarchist Life in Revolutionary Autobiographies
Ania Aizman, assistant professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, U-M
11:30-12:00 -- Praxis Poetry: Emma Goldman and Literature Across English and Yiddish
Anna Elena Torres, assistant professor of comparative literature, University of Chicago
12:00-1:30 -- Lunch break (on your own)
AFTERNOON SESSION
Gallery, 1st floor Hatcher Library
1:30-2:00 -- Going Into Business with Emma Goldman
Ari Weinzweig, CEO and co-founding partner of Zingerman's Community of Businesses
2:00-2:30 -- Cellmates and Shipmates: Emma Goldman and the Deportees of the USAT Buford
Kenyon Zimmer, associate professor of history, University of Texas at Arlington
2:30-3:00 -- Coffee break, with birthday cake
3:00-3:30 -- Productive, Loose, and Dead Ends: Pursuing Primary Sources for Backgrounding Performance of Emma Goldman On Stage
Helene Williams, opera singer, actress, and vocal teacher; Leonard Lehrman, composer
3:30-4:00 -- Discussion, Q&A
The U-M Library's Labadie Collection, held in the Special Collections Research Center, includes an impressive collection of Emma Goldman materials, including leaflets, newspaper clippings, her Russian passport, her suitcase, letters between Goldman and her comrades Alexander Berkman, Joseph Labadie, Agnes Inglis, Warren Starr Van Valkenburgh, and more.
https://airtable.com/shr3JKkxyTJktHlzd
MORNING SESSION
Reference Room, 2nd floor Hatcher Library
8:45-9:30 -- Coffee and gather
9:30-9:45 -- Welcome remarks
Julie Herrada, curator U-M Library's Labadie Collection
9:45-10:00 -- David Porter’s Vision on Fire
Daniel Schniedewind, son of the late David Porter who authored Vision on Fire: Emma Goldman on the Spanish Revolution
10:00-10:30 -- Emma Goldman’s Women
Kathy Ferguson, professor of political science and women's studies, University of Hawai'i
10:30-11:00 -- The Legacy of the Emma Goldman Papers Project
Candace Falk, Guggenheim fellow and founding director of the Emma Goldman Papers project at the University of California, Berkeley
11:00-11:30 -- The Commune in the Memoir: Recipes for Anarchist Life in Revolutionary Autobiographies
Ania Aizman, assistant professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, U-M
11:30-12:00 -- Praxis Poetry: Emma Goldman and Literature Across English and Yiddish
Anna Elena Torres, assistant professor of comparative literature, University of Chicago
12:00-1:30 -- Lunch break (on your own)
AFTERNOON SESSION
Gallery, 1st floor Hatcher Library
1:30-2:00 -- Going Into Business with Emma Goldman
Ari Weinzweig, CEO and co-founding partner of Zingerman's Community of Businesses
2:00-2:30 -- Cellmates and Shipmates: Emma Goldman and the Deportees of the USAT Buford
Kenyon Zimmer, associate professor of history, University of Texas at Arlington
2:30-3:00 -- Coffee break, with birthday cake
3:00-3:30 -- Productive, Loose, and Dead Ends: Pursuing Primary Sources for Backgrounding Performance of Emma Goldman On Stage
Helene Williams, opera singer, actress, and vocal teacher; Leonard Lehrman, composer
3:30-4:00 -- Discussion, Q&A
The U-M Library's Labadie Collection, held in the Special Collections Research Center, includes an impressive collection of Emma Goldman materials, including leaflets, newspaper clippings, her Russian passport, her suitcase, letters between Goldman and her comrades Alexander Berkman, Joseph Labadie, Agnes Inglis, Warren Starr Van Valkenburgh, and more.
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