Angela Davis Speaks on Art, Philosophy and Politics


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As part of "The Domain the Great Bear" Series, the Royal Institute of Art Stockholm is honoured to have Angela Davis speak publicly on “Art, Philosophy, and Politics.” Through her activism and scholarship over the last decades, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in the quest for social justice both in the United States and worldwide. Her work as an educator, activist, scholar and writer – 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 equality.

Ur Wikipedia: "Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, scholar, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, although she was never a party member. Her interests included prisoner rights; she founded Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. She is a retired professor with the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a former director of the university's Feminist Studies department.

Davis was arrested, charged, tried, and acquitted of conspiracy in the 1970 armed take-over of a Marin County courtroom, in which four persons died.

Her research interests are feminism, African-American studies, critical theory, Marxism, popular music, social consciousness, and the philosophy and history of punishment and prisons. Her membership in the Communist Party led to Ronald Reagan's request in 1969 to have her barred from teaching at any university in the State of California. She was twice a candidate for Vice President on the Communist Party USA ticket during the 1980s."

När: 8 september 2015 16:00 - 8 september 2015 18:00

Var: Flaggmansvägen 1, Skeppsholmen / Stockholm

Arrangör: Kungliga Konsthögskolan (KKH)

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