Please join us Friday, April 26 at 6:30 p.m. for an evening with Angela Davis. This exciting lecture will be held in Shove Memorial Chapel. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the lecture begins at 7 p.m.
Angela Y. Davis is Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz. An activist, writer, and lecturer, her work focuses on prisons, police, abolition, and the related intersections of race, gender, and class. Davis will be speaking on her recent book,
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism as well as her general scholarly and advocacy work. This is a unique and exciting opportunity to hear from a legendary figure in civil rights, abolition, and feminist theory speak. A Q&A session will follow the lecture.
Registration is required.
Sponsored by the departments of Anthropology, Asian Studies, English, Feminist and Gender Studies, History, Italian, Political Science, Religion, Race Ethnicity and Migration, Sociology, Spanish and Portuguese, Theatre and Dance, the Butler Center, the Office of ADEI, and CCSGA.