Announcement: Angela Davis at Pratt

ANGELA DAVIS TO PRESENT EVENTS AS
SLAS SPRING 2008 SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE
4/22 AND 4/23

Educator, writer, and activist Angela Davis, a tenured professor in the
History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa
Cruz, and the University of California Presidential Chair in African
American and Feminist Studies, will serve as the School of Liberal Arts
and Sciences spring 2008 Scholar in Residence on April 22 and 23.

Her visit begins on Tuesday, April 22, at 5 PM, with a screening of the
documentary film The Farm: Angola (1998), which depicts day-to-day life in
Angola Prison in Angola Louisiana. At 7 PM, she will deliver the keynote
address, "Identifying Racism in the Era of Neoliberalism," in which she
addresses the persistent yet mutating dynamics of racism.

On Wednesday, April 23, at 12:30 PM, Davis will lead a roundtable
discussion with New York-based artists Dread Scott, Hank Willis Thomas,
Alain "KET" Mariduea and Amy Sananman about aesthetic practice, cultural
politics, and social justice.

All three events are open to the public and will be held in Memorial Hall
on the Brooklyn campus.

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