Act Up In Sask
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
We wanted to alert you to a special campus visit by Dr. Angela DavisDr. Angela Davis will speak to the university and broader community about being an agent of change.
Monday, March 7th, 2011
TIME: 5:15pm
WHERE: University Theatre, Riddell Centre
COST: FREE!
Introduction to be given by Dr. James McNinch, Dean, Faculty of Education
About Angela Davis:
Professor Angela Davis is an American political activist, educator and author. Davis was most politically active during the late 1960s through the 1970s and was associated with the Communist Party USA, the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Panther Party. Prisoner rights have been among her continuing interests; she is the founder of "Critical Resistance", an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. She is presently a retired professor with the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is the former director of the university's Feminist Studies department. Her research interests are in feminism, African American studies, critical theory, Marxism, popular music and social consciousness, and the philosophy and history of punishment and prisons. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis)
Dr. Davis' talk was made possible by the generous support of the following sponsors (to date):
Faculty of Education, V.P Academic Conference Fund, Humanities Research Institute, Dr. Charity Marsh, President Vianne Timmons, Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Faculty of Kinesiology, Faculty of Nursing, Social Policy Research Unit, & CUPE 1975
For more information please contact: patrick.lewis@uregina.ca or marc.spooner@uregina.ca
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