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Updated 11:00 AM November 17, 2003

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Political activist Angela Davis to deliver Vivian R. Shaw Lecture

Davis

Angela Davis, an internationally renowned political activist, will discuss women and prison during the Vivian R. Shaw Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 21 at Rackham Auditorium. Her lecture is presented by the Women's Studies Program and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

The event is free and open to the public.

Davis, a professor in the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is known for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in the United States and abroad.

She serves as an advocate of prison abolition and has developed a powerful critique of racism in the criminal justice system.

Davis's political activism began as a youth in Birmingham, Ala., and continued through her high school years in New York. In 1969, she received national attention after being removed from her teaching position in the UCLA philosophy department as a result of her social activism and membership in the Communist Party.

A year later, she was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List on false charges and was the subject of an intense police search that drove her underground. She was incarcerated for 16 months, during which time a massive international "Free Angela Davis" campaign was organized, leading to her acquittal in 1972.

Davis's visit is co-sponsored by the U-M Martin Luther King, Jr., Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks Visiting Professors Program, the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, the departments of English, history, psychology and sociology, and the Program in American Culture.

For more information, call (734) 647-0774.

Women and War

Matthews

Jenny Matthews, a photographer and filmmaker, will discuss her experiences from 25 years of working in war-torn countries at 4 p.m. Nov. 20 in 2239 Lane Hall in the speech "An Other Side: Women and War."

Her work has taken her to such hot-spots as Guatemala, Sierra Leone, Nicaragua, Afghanistan and more. She documents women and the roles they play in the face of violence.

U-M Press published her book, "Women and War," in September.

The event is sponsored by the Women's Studies Program and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

2004 U.S. economic forecast and consumer outlook

The 2004 forecast and consumer outlook for the U.S. economy will highlight U-M's 51st Economic Outlook Conference Nov. 20-21 at the Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty St.

Saul Hymans, professor of economics and statistics and director of the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics, will open the conference with a presentation of "The U.S. Economic Outlook" at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 20. Richard Curtin, director of the Surveys of Consumers at the Institute for Social Research, will follow at 11 a.m. with "The Consumer Outlook for 2004."

The next day (Nov. 21) at 9:30 a.m., U-M economists Joan Crary and George Fulton will present "The 2004 Outlook for the Michigan Economy."

For more information about the conference, visit http://rsqe.econ.lsa.umich.edu/conference.htm.

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