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At least two upcoming events on academic freedom and Steven
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at Allen Hall on Mon Sep 22nd, 7pm,<br>
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</span> and this one, at the Independent Media Center this
Thursday, Sep. 18th, 7pm -<br>
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Date: Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 1:35 AM<br>
Subject: Fwd: [Peace] Sept 18, 7pm, IMC:
CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR TO SPEAK ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM,
SALAITA<br>
To: Niloofar Shambayati <<a
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Professor Franke & U of I students and faculty
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:'Times
New Roman'">CONSTITUTIONAL
SCHOLAR
TO SPEAK ON ACADEMIC
FREEDOM, SALAITA</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:'Times
New Roman'"><i>Columbia
Law Professor
Katherine Franke
joins
off-campus panel
discussion</i></span><i><span
style="font-family:'Times
New Roman'"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:'Times
New Roman'">What’s
next,
now that the
University of
Illinois Board of
Trustees has voted
down Steven
Salaita’s job? This
Thursday, September
18, Katherine
Franke, a top
national scholar
of law, religion,
and human rights,
will lead a
community
conversation focused
on academic freedom,
political dissent,
and particular
issues involved in
political action on
Israel-Palestine as
well as the firing
of Salaita from a
tenured faculty
position after he
sent out tweets
decrying Israel’s
attacks on
Gaza.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:'Times
New Roman'">Franke,
the
Isidor and Seville
Sulzbacher
Professor of Law and
director of the
Center
for Gender and
Sexuality Law at
Columbia University,
is paying her own
way
to speak at the
Independent Media
Center in Urbana.
She canceled a
planned visit
to the UIUC campus
and announced her
decision to take
part in a growing
faculty
boycott in a
September 2 letter
to Chancellor
Phyllis Wise. She
has chosen to
come to Urbana as
way to <i>act</i>
on her resistance to
an aggressive and
well-funded campaign
against critics of
Israel (see</span><span
style="font-family:'Times
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</span><a
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href="https://web.law.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/microsites/gender-sexuality/Franke_uiuc_letter.pdf"
target="_blank"><span
style="font-family:'Times
New Roman'">Letter
from Katherine
Franke</span></a><span
style="font-family:'Times
New Roman'">). She
argues that
strategists in
this campaign
consistently reframe
questions of
pro-Palestinian
advocacy in
terms of attacks on
civility in the
university
context—just as Wise
and others
have done in the
Salaita case.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:'Times
New Roman'">Joining
Franke at the
Independent Media
Center in Urbana
will be Michael
Rothberg, professor
and head of the UIUC
English Department
and
director of the
Holocaust, Genocide
and Memory Studies
Initiative on
campus;
Robert Warrior,
director of the
American Indian
Studies Program,
which offered
Salaita the tenured
position in
comparative
indigenous studies
nearly a year
ago; Chantal Nadeau,
professor and former
chair of the
Department of Gender
and
Women’s Studies; and
UIUC students Brenda
Sanya and Eman
Genayam.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:'Times
New Roman'">WHAT:
“Academic Freedom
& Political
Dissent: A
Conversation with
Katherine Frank and
the Community”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:'Times
New Roman'">WHEN:
Thursday, September
18, 7-9 p.m.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:'Times
New Roman'">WHERE:
Independent Media
Center, 202 S.
Broadway, Urbana</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:'Times
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of Elm
and Broadway)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:'Times
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Independent
Media Center and
Illinois Faculty for
Academic Freedom and
Justice</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:'Times
New Roman'">For more
information on
Katherine Franke,
see </span><a
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href="http://www.law.columbia.edu/fac/Katherine_Franke" target="_blank"><span
style="font-family:'Times
New Roman'">http://www.law.columbia.edu/fac/Katherine_Franke</span></a><span
style="font-family:'Times
New Roman'">; for
Franke’s recent
interview on the
Salaita case, see </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://m.democracynow.org/stories/14633"
target="_blank"><span
style="font-family:'Times
New Roman'">http://m.democracynow.org/stories/14633</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:'Times
New Roman'">CONTACT:
Ellen
Moodie, </span><a
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href="mailto:ellenmoodie50@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span
style="font-family:'Times
New Roman'">ellenmoodie50@gmail.com</span></a></p>
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