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Dr. Neil Roberts is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Faculty Affiliate in Political Science at Williams College. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from The University of Chicago with a specialization in political theory. His present writings deal with the intersections of Caribbean, Continental, and North American political theory with respect to theorizing the concept of freedom. Roberts will discuss his forthcoming book from The University of Chicago Press, Freedom as Marronage and explore the understanding of how the abolitionism Angela Y. Davis marshals, mediates her articulations of democracy and freedom in late modernity. Deciphering how Davis arrives at her ideals challenges us to refashion facile, sanitized origin narratives of the contours of African American political thought.Haines Hall Room 135