# Dialogue: Isaac Julien in conversation with Angela Y. Davis, moderated by Sarah Lewis #### calendar\_today Date and Time **November 11, 2020** 06:00PM - 07:00PM EST #### pin\_drop Location **Online via Zoom by registration** Wednesday, 11/11/2020 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. [Add to My Calendar](https://sfpl.org/sfpl-events/add-to-calendar/28888) **[Zoom Registration](http://bit.ly/JulienandDavis11-11-20)** **[SFPL YouTube Live](https://youtu.be/qe-2mOFCpVs)** --- [Angela Y. Davis](https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Davis,%20Angela%20Y.&searchType=author) activist, educator and author joins [Isaac Julien](https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Isaac%20Julien&searchType=author) to discuss the contemporary legacy of Frederick Douglass and art’s role in the ongoing struggle for economic, racial and gender justice. Davis helped to popularize the notion of the “prison industrial complex,” and urges her audiences to consider the future possibility of a world without carceral systems to forge a 21st century abolitionist movement. Moderated by [Sarah Lewis](https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Lewis,%20Sarah&searchType=author), associate professor of history of art and architecture and African and African American studies at Harvard University. Isaac Julien’s *Lessons of the Hour* is an immersive, ten-screen film installation and photography exhibition on the life and legacy of Frederick Douglass, the visionary African American writer, abolitionist, statesman and freed slave. In connection with the exhibition there will be a series of community conversations in collaboration with regional and national institutions in the academic, literary and visual arts fields to welcome audiences across the country to join in a dialogue about the exhibition with a dynamic range of thinkers, artists and scholars. We encourage you to attend the full series of events connected to Isaac Julien’s *Lessons of the Hour*, running through March 13, 2021. Conversations are free with registration on [McEvoy Foundation for the Arts website](https://www.mcevoyarts.org/exhibition/lessons-of-the-hour-isaac-julien/). **Connect** McEvoy Foundation for the Arts - [Website](https://www.mcevoyarts.org/) | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/mcevoyarts) | [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/mcevoyarts) | [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGbwjEO6dYMgp2tgwnTPfKw) Museum of the African Diaspora - [Website](https://www.moadsf.org/) | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/MoADsf) | [Instagram](https://instagram.com/moadsf/) | [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/moadsanfrancisco) | [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBDxwyq8yf8N5rXI8k2UdjA/featured) Angela Y. Davis - [Website](https://humanities.ucsc.edu/academics/faculty/index.php?uid=aydavis) | [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/_angeladavis1944/?hl=en) | [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/AngelaDavis26) Isaac Julien - [Website](https://www.isaacjulien.com/) | [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/isaacjulien/) | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/isaacjulien) | [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/pages/Isaac-Julien-Studio/175076709361575) Sarah Lewis - [Website](https://visionandjustice.org/sarah-lewis) | [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/sarahelizabethlewis1/) | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/sarahelizalewis) | [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/SarahElizabethLewis1/) --- ### ATTENDING PROGRAMS Questions about the program or problems registering? Contact . For accommodations (such as ASL interpretation or captioning), call (415) 557-4557 or contact . Requesting at least 72 hours in advance will help ensure availability. --- ## PUBLIC NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER This program uses a third-party website link. By clicking on the third-party website link, you will leave SFPL's website and enter a website not operated by SFPL. This service may collect personally identifying information about you, such as name, username, email address, and password. This service will treat the information it collects about you pursuant to its own privacy policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of each third-party website or service that you visit or use, including those third parties with whom you interact through our Library services. For more information about these third-party links, please see the section of [SFPL’s Privacy Policy](https://sfpl.org/about-us/privacy-policy) describing *Links to Other Sites*. --- Attachments- [ image isaacjulienangeladavissarahlewis.jpg ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/history-artsarchitecture/files/isaacjulienangeladavissarahlewis.jpg) --- See also:- [ HAA Events ](/event-type/general) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/node/1378965/event-feed.ics) Copy link link