Angela Davis, Democracy and Civil Engagement, 7 p.m., OUC Ballroom
Through her activism and scholarship over the last decades, Angela
Davis has been deeply involved in our nation's quest for social
justice. Her work as an educator - both at the university level and in
the larger public sphere - has always emphasized the importance of
building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender
justice. Her teaching career has taken her to San Francisco State
University, Mills College, and University of California- Berkeley. She
also has taught at UCLA, Vassar, the Claremont Colleges, and Stanford
University. She spent the last 15 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. Davis has written eight books and has lectured
throughout the world. 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
early70s as a person who spent 18 months in jail and on trial, after at
one time being placed on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted List.”