Angela Davis is Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz, and the author of ten books, including 2016’s Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement. Her work addresses the range of social problems associated with incarceration and criminalization of communities most affected by poverty and racial discrimination. She draws upon her own experiences as someone who spent eighteen months in jail and on trial, after being placed on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted List.” She has been an activist for six decades including as a founding member of Critical Resistance, an abolitionist organization dedicated to the dismantling of the prison industrial complex.
From Prison Abolition to #BlackLivesMatter: Social Movements and the Global Struggle for Justice
This lecture will discuss the rise of social movements demanding prison abolition and the end of racialized police violence in the United States in the context of mass incarceration and the militarization of policing. The talk will also draw links from these movements to struggles for justice across the Americas and the world.
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. / 15h15 – 16h45
TEATRO BAQUEDANO (Teatro de la Universidad de Chile)
Alfredo Jaar is a Chilean artist, architect and filmmaker living in New York. His work has been exhibited extensively around the world. He has participated in the Venice Biennials (1986, 2007, 2009, 2013), the Sao Paulo Biennials (1987, 1989, 2010), and Documenta (Kassel, 1987, 2002). He has created approximately 75 public interventions and over 60 monographs about his work have been published. His work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum (New York), Tate Modern (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Reina Sofía (Madrid), M+ (Hong Kong), and innumerable institutions and private collections around the world.
Jack Halberstam has been working at the intersections of art and performance for the last two decades. Jack’s research and scholarship explores popular culture, eccentric political expression, and gender and sexual variance. Jack is currently working on several projects including a book titled THE WILD on queer anarchy.
María Emilia Tijoux is a sociologist, professor and researcher from the Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Universidad de Chile. She coordinates the doctorate in Social Sciences and the Research Nucleus for the Sociology of the Body and Emotions. She directs the magazine Actuel Marx Intervenciones. Her research addresses immigration in the last decades, xenophobia, racism, and the sexualization and racialization of immigrants, as well as processes of dehumanization. She is editor of the book Racismo en Chile: la piel como marca de la inmigración.
