Keynote Speaker: Dr. Angela Davis

Dr. Angela Davis is an international icon known for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in the United States and abroad. Her work as an educator has always emphasize the importance of building communities of struggles for economic, racial and gender equality. She is the author of nine books, most recently: Abolition Democracy, Are Prisons Obsolete and The Meaning of Freedom and has lectured worldwide. Her work draws upon her own experiences as a person who spent 18 months in jail and on trial, after being placed on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted List” for a crime she did not commit.

Join us as she launches our 6th Annual Humber Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Innovative Learning Academic conference at TIFA (Humber@TIFA)

Dr.Davis will be delivering the keynote address on The (re)Making of a Movement: New Perspectives on the 1960s Counterculture.

Date: November 2, 2019

Time: 9 a.m. to 10:40 a.m.

Location: Fleck Dance Theatre, Queen's Quay Harbourfront  207 Queen's Quay West, Toronto

Price: $25

Tickets available through the TIFA (Toronto International Festival of Authors) box office: https://festivalofauthors.ca/events/the-remaking-of-a-movement-new-perspectives-on-the-1960s-counterculture-by-angela-davis