April 22, 2008
5:00 pm-9:00 pm
School of Liberal Arts & Sciences Scholar in Residence Angela Davis
Pratt Institute, Memorial Hall
200 Willoughby Ave (between Classon Ave and Hall St)
Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
The School of Liberal Arts & Sciences and the Department of English and Humanities are proud to present our spring 2008 Scholar in Residence, Angela Davis. The two day program includes a film screening (at 5pm) and keynote address (at 7pm) on Tuesday, April 22nd and a roundtable discussion (at 12:30pm) on Wednesday, April 23rd. All events are free and open to the public.
Angela Davis is known internationally for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in the U.S. and abroad. An activist, writer, philosopher, and teacher, she was associated with the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the late ’60s and early ’70s and ran for U.S. Vice President on the Communist Party ticket in 1980. Educated at the Frankfurt school, Davis first came to national attention when she was placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list on false charges, driven underground, arrested, and incarcerated. In prison for 16 months, she wrote brilliant articles and became the focus of the international solidarity movement, the “Free Angela Davis” campaign, which brought about her acquittal. In 1997 she helped found Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated to dismantling the prison-industrial complex.
Today, she holds the University of California Presidential Chair in African American and Feminist Studies in the History of Consciousness Department at the Santa Cruz campus. She is the author of eight acclaimed books, including The Autobiography of Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?, and Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture.
All three events are open to the public and will be held in Memorial Hall on the Brooklyn campus.
I am sooooooooooooo there.