On Justice, Conflict and Responsibility

Venue: Carillo Gantner Lecture Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

Presenters: Professor Angela Davis Distinguished Professor Emerita

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 – 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.

Professor Davis has had an extensive teaching career and has lectured throughout the United States as well as in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and South America. In recent years, her work has focused on the criminalisation and incarceration of communities most affected by poverty and racial discrimination. She draws upon her own experiences in the 1970s when she spent 18 months in jail and on trial after being placed on the FBI’s ‘Ten Most Wanted List’.

Professor Davis has conducted extensive research on numerous issues related to race, gender and imprisonment. She has authored 10 books and her most recent book of essays, ‘Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement’ was published in February.

Professor Davis is affiliated with ‘Sisters Inside’ an abolitionist organisation based in Queensland that works in solidarity with women in prison. She is a founding member of ‘Critical Resistance’ a national organisation dedicated to the dismantling of the ‘prison industrial complex’. Having helped to popularise this notion, Davis urges her audiences to think seriously about the future possibility of a world without prisons and to help forge a 21st century abolitionist movement.

This public lecture is part of the inaugural Global Network for Justice. Conflict. Responsibility symposium being held at the University of Melbourne on 24th and 25th October. Registration and more information about the two day symposium here

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