Writer, activist, teacher, and scholar Angela Davis will be speaking on campus this Friday. See a bio here, or read about her recent book: “Are Prisons Obsolete?”

“The Women’s Studies Program and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan Present

The Vivian R. Shaw Lecture
Honoring the 30th anniversary of the Women’s Studies Program

Angela Davis
How Gender Structures the Prison Industrial Complex

Friday, November 21, 2003
7:30 p.m.
Rackham Auditorium
University of Michigan
915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor

Angela Davis, Professor in the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is internationally known for her efforts to combat all forms of oppression in the U.S. and abroad. Over the years she has been active as a student, teacher, writer, scholar, and activist. She is a living witness to the historic struggles of the contemporary era.”