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The John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin invites you to join us for the 2023 Eric Williams Memorial Lecture. This year’s keynote address “Revolutionary Winds” is presented by renowned scholar, activist/organizer, and writer, Dr. Angela Davis.
This event will be held in-person at the AT&T Conference Center in Austin, TX, and simultaneously streamed virtually on this page on April 4. No signup or sign-in is required to attend the event virtually.
Angela Davis is known internationally for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in the U.S. and abroad. Her articles and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and she is the author of nine books, including Angela Davis: An Autobiography; Women, Race, and Class; Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday; The Angela Y. Davis Reader; Are Prisons Obsolete?; a new edition of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; and The Meaning of Freedom. During the last twenty-five years, Professor Davis has lectured in all the fifty United States, as well as in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the former Soviet Union. She is a living witness to the historical struggles of the contemporary era.
Launched in 1999, the Eric Williams Memorial Lecture (EWML) series honors the late Dr. Eric Williams (1911-1981), scholar, statesman, and Head of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago from 1956 until his death in 1981. Williams authored Capitalism and Slavery (1944), the landmark study that has been translated into 9 languages: Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Turkish, Korean, Spanish, among them (with a Dutch translation forthcoming). It continues to inform the ongoing debate about slavery and abolition. A third reprint is now available for purchase from The University of North Carolina Press. In April 2021, the EWML series moved from Florida International University to its new home at the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies at UT Austin.
Jeannelle Ramirez, Caribbean and Gulf Studies GRA
jeannelleramirez@utexas.edu
Dr. Lorraine Leu
Curator of the EWML and Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies at UT Austin
lorraine.leu@austin.utexas.edu