Distinguished Lecture Series with Angela Davis

Join the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice for an evening with activist, scholar, and educator Angela Davis. In this installment of the Distinguished Lecture Series, she will speak on American history and prisons.

Registration is required for this event. No guests will be admitted into the theater after 6:30pm. Please factor in 15 minutes to walk from the West Parking Structure to the theater. Check-in begins at 5:30 PM.

Theatre seating is general admission. Please arrive early. Theatre seats will be released to the waitlist at 6:20 PM.

The waitlist will be seated in a nearby overflow room to watch a live feed of the event. Light refreshments will be provided. Theatre seats will be released to the waitlist, in order, starting at 6:20 PM.

Through her activism and scholarship over many decades, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in movements for social justice around the world. Her work as an educator has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender justice.

Professor Davis’ teaching career has taken her to San Francisco State University, Mills College, and UC Berkeley. She also has taught at UCLA, Vassar, Syracuse University the Claremont Colleges, and Stanford University. Most recently she spent fifteen years at the University of California Santa Cruz where she is now Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness – an interdisciplinary Ph.D program – and of Feminist Studies.

Angela Davis is the author of ten books and has lectured throughout the United States as well as in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and South America. In recent years a persistent theme of her work has been the range of social problems associated with incarceration and the generalized criminalization of those communities that are most affected by poverty and racial discrimination. She draws upon her own experiences in the early seventies as a person who spent eighteen months in J*il and on trial, after being placed on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted List.” She also has conducted extensive research on numerous issues related to race, gender and imprisonment. Her books include Abolition Democracy and Are Prisons Obsolete?, and two books of essays entitled The Meaning of Freedom, and Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement. Her most recent books include a re-issue of Angela Davis: An Autobiography and Abolition. Feminism. Now., with co-authors Gina Dent, Erica Meiners and Beth Richie.

Angela Davis is a founding member of Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated to the dismantling of the Pr*son industrial complex. Internationally, she is affiliated with Sisters Inside, an abolitionist organization based in Queensland, Australia that works in solidarity with women in Pr*son.

Having helped to popularize the notion of a “Pr*son industrial complex,” she now urges her audiences to think seriously about the future possibility of a world without prisons and to help forge a 21st century abolitionist movement.

The Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, together with partners, develops and champions evidence-based, justice-centered solutions to ending cycles of violence.

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