Previous Newsworthy Events
Celebrating the life of Paul Avrich: a distinguished historian of anarchism remembered.
See full memorial
The Emma Goldman Papers honors the memory of David Ballantine, Emma Goldman’s feisty nephew, who died on June 22, 2005.
We also mourn the loss of the composer David Diamond, a supporter of the Emma Goldman Papers as well as the son of Emma Goldman’s seamstress, who died on June 13, 2005. (August 2008)
From
South End Press:
“South End Press is pleased to announce the publication of
Emma, a
play by Howard Zinn. In this play, historian and playwright
Howard Zinn dramatizes the life of Emma Goldman, the anarchist,
feminist, and free-spirited thinker who was exiled from the United
States because of her outspoken views, including her opposition to
World War I. With his wit and unique ability to illuminate history
from below, Zinn reveals the life of this incredible
woman.” (December 2006)
An article by project director Candace Falk appeared in the November
2002 issue of
Women’s History
Review entitled “Emma Goldman: Passion, Politics, and
the Theatrics of Free Expression.” (December 2006)
Read the
New York Times article from 14 January
2003. (December 2006)
Read the
New York Times article from 17 January
2003.
(December 2006)
Based on the play by Howard Zinn, has been kindly donated by its
author and composer to the Emma Goldman Papers. (June 2005)
Pen West and the Emma Goldman Papers
Banned Book Week Event, a
program which took place on September 24, 2003 at Black Oak Books,
will be broadcasted in its entirety on Sunday, October 12 from 7–9pm
on
KPFA’s
Act One
radio show. An edited version of the program will be rebroadcasted on
Friday 17 October from 2–3 p.m. Historical and contemporary
excerpts were read from banned books, pamphlets, poems, prison
letters, and even from the Papal Index of Forbidden
Texts. Participants included former Poet Laureate Robert Hass, Emma
Goldman Papers editors Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, and Jessica Moran,
Mark Twain Papers editor Victor Fischer, UC Berkeley professors Renate
Holub and Iain Boal, prison activist and writer Daniel Burton Rose,
and Albany and Berkeley High School students Paul Pateman, Jesse
Falk-Finley, and Ariya Sasaki. Check it out, it was an inspiring and
chilling event! (October 2003)
Project editors will take part in an evening of readings and
discussion in observation of Banned Book Week at Black Oak Books in
Berkeley on 24 September 2003. Former poet laureate Robert Hass,
Victor Fischer, editor of the Mark Twain Papers, prison activist
Daniel Burton Rose, and others will read from banned works from the
nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. The right to write
and the freedom to read has always come under attack during periods
when the government perceives that it is threatened; future exercise
of these freedoms depends on our current vigilance.
(September 2003)
Made For America, 1890–1901, the first volume of the four
volume Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American
Years has been reviewed by
Dennis G. Dalton in the Forward. You can read
“Dancing
at the Revolution: What Emma Wrought” online. (July 2003)
Cora Weiss, President of the the Hague Appeal for Peace, President of
the Samuel Rubin Foundation, esteemed Emma‘s List contributor,
and a great woman for peace, with the passion and reach of an Emma
Goldman, recently gave a talk on June 30, 2003 at the 4th European
Conference for Peace Education: “
Challenge
for Peace Educators.”
(June 2003)
An article on Emma Goldman and the work of the Emma Goldman Papers
Project, “An Eloquent Woman” appeared in the June 2003
issue of
Annotation, the
National
Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)
newsletter. The article was part of a series on NHPRC sponsored
projects documenting the lives of important women including projects
on Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Jane Addams, Margaret
Sanger, Willa Cather and Eleanor Roosevelt. (June 2003)
Project director Dr. Candace Falk will be giving the commencement
address at this year’s
Rhetoric and Film Studies
Department’s commencement ceremony at UC Berkeley. The
ceremony will take place at 2pm on 19 May 2003 in Zellerbach
Auditorium, and the printed program will include Goldman’s
timely 1917 quote on patriotism. A
printable PDF file of
Goldman’s quote is available.
(May 2003)
An exhibit on Emma Goldman is currently on
display
at the University of Alberta. The
exhibit,
together with talks by Project Director Dr. Candace Falk, is held in
conjunction with the Culture and State Conference hosted by the
University of Alberta, and is part of the
Edmonton May Week Festival. (May 2003)
Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American
Years, Volume One, Made For America, 1890-1901 has just been
published! It is a compelling and meticulously researched
text. Encourage your local bookstore or library, your school, college
or University to order the series – beginning with
Volume
One – and consider ordering it yourself! (April 2003)
Bill Moyers quotes Emma Goldman in an interview with author and
Emma’s List member Barbara Kingsolver, who cites Emma in her new
book
Small Wonder. The
interview
transcript is available via PBS. (May 2002)
the journal of the
Jewish Women’s
Archive, has an interview with Project director Candace Falk in
its Spring 2002 edition. (March 2002)
