The UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy is honored to welcome Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore for its Fourth Annual Distinguished Lecture in Ideas and Organizing. One of the preeminent abolitionist scholars of our times, she is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, American Studies, and Africana Studies at the City University of New York Graduate Center where she was Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics from 2014 to 2024. Co-founder of many grassroots organizations, including Critical Resistance, Professor Gilmore is author of Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation and Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California.
This lecture is part of the ongoing programs celebrating the Institute at 10. Since 2016, the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy has organized knowledge to challenge inequality, accompanying movements and communities on the frontlines of displacement and dispossession. We look forward to seeing you at this in-person program at the historic UCLA Nimoy Theater where Professor Gilmore will be joined by Institute directors Ananya Roy, Hannah Appel, and Kian Goh.
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