Avenali Lectures

Mike Davis, Avenali Chair in the Humanities 1997-1998

“The Literary Destruction of L.A.” || September 30, 1997

While environmental historian and urban theorist Mike Davis holds degrees in History from UCLA and the University of Edinburgh, his work exceeds and expands the usual definition of historical writing. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, published in 1990, won the Issac Deutscher Award from the London School of Economics and the award for Best Book in Urban Politics from the American Political Science Association.

Other Events with Mike Davis

“Apocalypticisms” panel discussion || October 1, 1997

Occasional Paper || with Davis, David Reid (Berkeley writer), Kerwin Klein (Department of History), and T.J. Clark (Department of Art History).

“Maneaters of the Sierra Madre” || October 7, 1997

“The Dark Raptures of Mike Davis’s L.A.” || October 8, 1997

followed by a screening of the video Shotgun Freeway.