Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/21/2017
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Location
Oakland City Hall
1 Frank Ogawa Plaza
Oakland
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JUDITH BUTLER is the Maxine Elliot Professor at the University of California, Berkeley where she teaches comparative literature and critical theory. She is the author of several books, including Gender Trouble, Precarious Life, Frames of War, and Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly. She has co-edited with Zeynep Gambetti and Leticia Sabsay a volume entitled Vulnerability in Resistance (Duke University Press, 2016). Butler is currently a board member of the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York City and serves on the international board of the Jenin Freedom Theatre in Palestine. She co-directs the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs funded by the Mellon Foundation.
ANGELA Y. DAVIS is Distinguished Professor Emerita in theDepartments of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her articles and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and she is the author of nine books, including Angela Davis: An Autobiography; Women, Race, and Class; Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday; The Angela Y. Davis Reader; Are Prisons Obsolete?; The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues; and a new edition of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Committed to prisoners’ rights, Davis is a founding member of Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated to the dismantling of the prison industrial complex. Internationally, she is affiliated with Sisters Inside, an abolitionist organization based in Queensland, Australia that works in solidarity with women in prison.
RAMONA NADDAFF (moderator) is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley and a director and editor of Zone Books. She has written on literary censorship, artistic collaborations, and music torture and is the author of The Exile of the Poets: The Production of Censorship in Plato’s Republic.
*This panel will have two ASL interpretors present. All Oakland Book Festival panels are wheelchair accesible.
August 6, 1975- “Voting Rights Act of 1975 Requires Bilingual Ballots” "In 1975, Congress made major amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Civil rights organizations that represented Hispanic, Asian American, Native Alaskan and Native American interests successfully argued before Congress that such groups were victims of discriminatory voting practices, particularly in places where English was not the dominant language. This prompted Congress to amend the Voting Rights Act to
require voting districts carry bilingual ballots in certain areas of the country."