Internationally renowned scholar, activist and educator Angela Y. Davis will Keynote the 18th Annual Walter Rodney Symposium.
About this Event
The 18th Annual Walter Rodney Symposium will be held on March 21, 2021, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
The Symposium, DEMOCRACY UNDER DURESS, will explore the fragility of the democratic state and strategies for creating and protecting a true democracy.
The Keynote Address by Angela Y. Davis will start at 1:30 p.m.
The Symposium will also feature two panels:
10:30 - 11:45 a.m. : "Walter Rodney, Human Rights and Decolonization"
12:00 - 1:15 p.m.: “Imperialism, State Violence and the Assassination of Walter Rodney"
Walter Rodney (1942-1980) was a historian, intellectual, scholar-activist, educator, pan-Africanist, and revolutionary. His scholarly works and political activism engendered a new political consciousness, challenged prevailing assumptions about African history, provided a new construct for development theory and established a framework for analyzing current global socio-economic and political issues.
Rodney & Davis’ lives intersected when they met at the University of Dar-es- Salaam in Tanzania; they are both grounded in historical truth, and in their commitment to human dignity, liberation, resistance and scholar-activism.
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The 18th Annual Walter Rodney Symposium is co-hosted by The Walter Rodney Foundation and the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, in collaboration with:
Spelman College Women's Research and Resource Center
Clark Atlanta University Department of Political Science
African American Center on Global Politics and Human Rights
Morehouse College Department of Africana Studies
Davis Bozeman Law Firm
Dihvinely Konnecked/Shifting Energy
Global South Research Consortium
Black Alliance for Peace
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THE WALTER RODNEY FOUNDATION aims to further the legacy of Walter Rodney by sharing his works and fostering the application of his historical analysis and scholar-activism to effect change on key social issues.
The Walter Rodney Foundation was formed by the Rodney Family in 2006 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The Walter Rodney Foundation is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Since 2004, an Annual Walter Rodney Symposium has been held in Atlanta, Georgia. The goal is to bring together scholars, researchers, activists, students and the community to discuss contemporary issues from a Rodney perspective. The first annual symposium was held in conjunction with the donation of the Walter Rodney Papers to the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library.
For more information, visit www.walterrodneyfoundation.org or contact: walterrodneyfoundation@gmail.com.
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