6Prof. Angela Y. Davis and prof. Gina Dent in The Black Archives 

Prof. Angela Y. Davis and  prof. Gina Dent visited The Black Archives The Black Archives on May 16th. Prof. Davis said that our exhibition Black and Revolutionary about Hermina and Otto Huiswoud made her feel more at home in Amsterdam than she sometimes feels in the US and everyone should visit it.  

Check out the video and book a tour at The Black Archives!

Lecture by dr. Gina Dent:
Anchored to the Real: Black Literature in the Wake of Anthropology

In her lecture, Dent presented from her forthcoming book Anchored to the Real: Black Literature in the Wake of Anthropology (Duke UP). The lecture examined questions of race, gender and geopolitics in the translation of black writers into American literature. With a specific focus on the productive and disabling role of the social sciences, anthropology in particular, in this act of translation, the lecture provides insight into black culture in the Diaspora and the conditions of knowledge production. 
 
We acknowledge with gratitude the support of the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis, the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies, the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis Research Group: Transformations of Civil Disobedience: Democratization, Globalization, Digitalization, and The Black Archives.

Date: 16th May 2018
Time: 19:00 – 21:00h
Location: The Black Archives, Zeeburgerdijk 19A, 1093 SK Amsterdam
In 1971 demonstreerden de Dolla Mina's in Amsterdam voor de vrijheid van Angela Davis
In de week van 16 mei 2018 was de iconische professor en activiste Angela Davis op bezoek in Amsterdam. Tijdens haar speech in het Tropenmuseum benadrukte ze het belang van internationale solidariteit. Tijdens een besloten bijeenkomst met lokale studenten, activisten,  studenten en community leaders stelde ze dat ze haar vrijheid te danken heeft aan de miljoenen mensen die zichzelf organiseerden en mobiliseerden toen ze in 1971 werd gearresteerd.

The Black Archives heeft wat archiefonderzoek gedaan en we vonden de onderstaande foto's en een krantenartikel uit het NRC van 20 januari 1971 terug over een protest van de Dolle Mina's rondom hun éénjarige bestaan én de vrijheid van Angela Davis.

"AMSTERDAM. 1 febr — Het verjaardagsfeest van Dolle Mina begon, zaterdagmiddag met het binnengaan van een café. Geen spectaculaire handeling, zou men zeggen, ware het niet dat het hier café Zwart op de hoek van de Dam en Damstraat betrof. Een café dat doorgaans geen dames-alleen toelaat."

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Angela Davis & Gina Dent

Moving Together: Activism, Art and Education – A Week with Angela Davis

Together with prof. Angela Davis,  dr. Gina Dent will give lectures and talks with artists, scholars, local activists  where they will look into questions of citizenship, communal knowledge sharing, intergenerational activism, and relevant artistic practices.

Dr. Gina Dent's lecture will be part of the weeklong program in Amsterdam.

A weeklong program that will be taking place from 12-17 May at various arts, cultural, educational and heritage institutions, and community centers in Amsterdam.

Artists, educators and activists have often been at the forefront of challenging social and cultural hierarchies within society. Events of the past decade have highlighted a noticeable increase in authoritarianism, racism, sexism, environmental disasters and economic hardship at local and global levels. This turbulent climate has prompted significant responses in the form of social movements calling for more inclusion, decolonization, and liberation within cultural and educational institutions.

In what ways are artists, educators and activists re-energizing cultural and knowledge production in the Netherlands? In what ways can institutions help mobilize these efforts towards creating a more just society for all?

Armed with thoughts, books, poetry and dance Moving Together: Activism, Art and Education aims to connect social, cultural, and educational institutions and initiatives in order to address themes of social justice, equality, artistic production and education, and share the emancipatory practices that emerge within these fields with a larger public.

This weeklong series celebrates the role and importance of black scholarship, cultural production, and activism within our contemporary polarized society. Central to the program is the work of Professor Angela Davis, whose life’s work exemplifies the value of interdisciplinary and intersectional practices of liberation.

Angela Davis’s work spans many decades. She is deeply involved in movements for social justice around the world through her activism and scholarship. Her work as an educator – both at the university and in the larger public sphere – has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender and sexual justice. Angela Davis is joined by her long-term collaborator Professor Gina Dent, whose work on prison abolition, feminism, social justice, and black literature and art contributes to the ongoing struggle for global social justice.

Moving Together aspires to amplify ongoing conversations on refugee, anti-racist, feminist, queer, trans*, anti-border, anti-nationalist, prison abolition, and environmental justice struggles through sharing knowledge and strengthening connections between arts, activism and education.

More information: http://movingtogether.info/