Brown Bag Biography with Kathy E. Ferguson

November 2, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Mānoa Campus, Kuykendall 410

The Center for Biographical Research presents: / “Anarchives: How We Remember Our Political Movement Is Part of the Movement” / Kathy E. Ferguson, Professor, Departments of Political Science and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at ԴDz / How do political movements create their histories? From the Paris Commune to the Spanish Revolution (roughly 1970 to 1940), the anarchist movement created its own archives, an act of collective memory that in turn became part of the movement. It was not just a clerical activity but a meaning-making practice, largely organized by women and made possible by the epistolary networks connecting anarchists around the world. Anarchives were the movements' answer to state histories, ensuring that anarchist histories would not be told primarily by their enemies. / Kathy E. Ferguson has been teaching in Political Science and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Hawai‘i since 1985. She received her PhD in political science at the University of Minnesota in 1976 and was the first person from that department to complete a dissertation on women or feminism. She recently published a book on the role of letterpress printers in the anarchist movement from the Paris Commune to the Spanish Revolution, entitled Letterpress Revolution (Duke University Press, 2023), and is currently writing a book analyzing the contributions of women to the anarchist movement (Emma Goldman's Women, forthcoming). / Cosponsored by Hamilton Library, the Hawai‘inuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, the Center for Oral History, the Matsunaga Institute, Conflict and Peace Specialist, the School of Communication & Information, and the Departments of American Studies, English, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies / Thursday, November 2 / Kuykendall 410 / 12 noon to 1:15PM HST


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