Angela Davis on Academic Freedom

The Sawyer Seminar Series on Black Studies and the Future of the American University opens with a discussion of academic freedom as a critical, evolving and contested concept — one that must be understood historically, continually reimagined in response to changing realities and defended structurally.

Angela Davis is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Convened by the WashU Department of African and African American Studies and the Center for the Humanities, this Sawyer Seminar explores how Black studies can sustain academic freedom and help reimagine democratic higher education. Through a yearlong series of conversations featuring leading scholars and public intellectuals, the seminar brings together faculty, students and community partners to examine how Black studies offers vital perspectives on power, inequality and democracy while shaping the future of higher education.

See more event dates and topics in this series by following this link.