May 2, 2006

CALENDAR ANNOUNCEMENT

May 18, 2006

Public Intellectual Speaker Series: Mike Davis – Author and urban theorist Mike Davis gives a new talk entitled “Vigilante Man: A History of White Violence in California,” tracing racial strife in the state, from present-day rhetoric on immigration to the mid-19th century “committee” that meted out terror to many non-Anglo and non-Protestant groups.

Free and open to the public, the lecture begins at 7 p.m. in Robinson Auditorium, on the University of California, San Diego campus.

Davis is the author of City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door and, most recently, Planet of Slums. He is a MacArthur Fellow and long-time activist whose earliest political activities date back to the late 1960s. Born in Fontana and raised in Bostonia, Calif, a now “lost” hamlet east of San Diego, Davis is a former meat-cutter and truck driver who teaches history at the University of California, Irvine.

The lecture is sponsored by California Cultures in Comparative Perspective and the Chicana/o Latina/o Arts and Humanities Program at UCSD.

Information: (858) 822-5118

Media Contact: Inga Kiderra, (858) 822-0661