Lunchtime Lecture Series Dangerous Women in the Land of the Tango: Anarchists in Belle Epoque Buenos Aires A lecture with José Moya
Thursday, 23 February, Noon Center for Research on Women, 101 Barnard Hall Free & open to the public; no reservations required.
Around 1900, anarchism was arguably the most important working-class and bohemian movement in the Atlantic world, and Buenos Aires had become - along with Barcelona and Paris - one of its principal foci. On Thursday, 23 February, José Moya delves into intellectual, social, and cultural histories to examine anarcho-feminism - one of the first radical ideologies to fuse a critique of domestic and public power relations - and explore women's participation in the anarchist movement.
José Moya taught Latin American history at UCLA for 17 years before coming, in the Fall of 2005, to Barnard, where he directs the program Forum on Migration. Jose's book, His book Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930, received five awards and the journal Historical Methods (Winter, 2001) devoted a forum to the work's theoretical and methodological contributions to migration studies. He is the author of a number of articles on immigration and gender, and is currently editing Latin American History and Historiography. He is also working on a socio-cultural history of anarchism in belle époque Buenos Aires - a project that has earned grants from the Fulbright Commission, the NEH, the UC President Research Fellowship in the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies' Burkhardt Fellowship.
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