The Centre for Alternatives to Social and Economic Inequalities (CASEI) at Lancaster University is proud to host internationally renowned scholar, activist and academic Angela Y. Davis's keynote at the 17th Annual Walter Rodney Symoposium on 21 March 2020. The event is being streamed from the Martin Luther King Jr International Chapel, Atlanta at 7pm GMT.

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The lives of Rodney and Davis intersected in Tanzania. They ground their theoretical and political positions in material conditions of oppression, advancing a steadfast commitment to resistance, scholar-activism and liberation. Davis wrote the new Foreword to How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, republished by Verso Press in 2018.

The event at Lancaster will be begin by outlining the signficance of the work of Angela Y. Davis and Walter Rodney to Black scholarship and activism. Following the livestream keynote lecture, you will have the opportunity to share your thoughts.

Angela Y. Davis is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California Santa Cruz. She has combined radical activism with penetrating academic analysis on a host of issues, changing the lives of generations of marginalised minority communities across the world. Professor Davis is a revolutionary who has worked tirelessly against oppression, the death penalty, racism and sexism. She has advocated for prison education and abolition as part of criminal justice reforms, as well as supporting LGBT and wider human rights. She actively campaigned against the Vietnam War, aparthied South Africa, the War on Terror and the continuing occupation of Palestine.

Walter Rodney was an intellectual, scholar, educator, Pan-Africanist and political activist recognised as a luminary among Caribbean thinkers. Dr Rodney was assassinated under the orders of the government in his homeland Guyana forty years ago this year. He authored more than ten books and fifty articles, with his vast body of work informing contemporary issues which resonate with new generations.

The Annual Walter Rodney Symposium honours the work of Dr Walter Rodney (1942-1980). His works include How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, The Russian Revolution, and The Groundings with My Brothers, republished by Verso Press.

For more information about the Walter Rodney Foundation and its activities, please visit www.walterrodneyfoundation.org or contact: [email protected].

Booking advised as places are limited. The event is free, but donations via Eventbrite or on the night would be gratefully received to support the ongoing work of the Walter Rodney Foundation. For details about the event please contact Dr Michael Lambert (Lancaster University) at [email protected].

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