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Democracy Under Duress | The 18th Annual Walter Rodney Symposium
March 21, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
All are invited to attend the 18th annual Walter Rodney Symposium. This year’s theme is “Democracy Under Duress.”
The symposium will explore the fragility of the democratic state and strategies for creating and protecting a true democracy. Internationally renowned scholar, activist and educator Angela Y. Davis will Keynote the 18th Annual Walter Rodney Symposium.
Schedule:
- 10:30–11:45 am | “Walter Rodney, Human Rights and Decolonization”
- 12–1:15 pm | “Imperialism, State Violence and the Assassination of Walter Rodney”
- 1:30 pm | Keynote Speaker Angela Davis
The 18th Annual Walter Rodney Symposium is co-hosted by The Walter Rodney Foundation and the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library. For more information, visit www.walterrodneyfoundation.org or contact walterrodneyfoundation@gmail.com.
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.
