[Peace-discuss] Sept 18, 7pm, IMC: CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR TO SPEAK ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM, SALAITA
Stuart Levy via Peace-discuss
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
Wed Sep 17 15:24:46 EDT 2014
At least two upcoming events on academic freedom and Steven Salaita's
situation -
at Allen Hall on Mon Sep 22nd, 7pm,
https://www.facebook.com/events/540329046098154/
" Academic Freedom and the Salaita Case: a talk by John K. Wilson"
and this one, at the Independent Media Center this Thursday, Sep.
18th, 7pm -
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From: *Niloofar Shambayati* <niloofar.peace at gmail.com
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Date: Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 1:35 AM
Subject: Fwd: [Peace] Sept 18, 7pm, IMC: CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR TO
SPEAK ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM, SALAITA
To: Niloofar Shambayati <niloofar.peace at gmail.com
<mailto:niloofar.peace at gmail.com>>
A reminder of the discussion with Professor Franke & U of I students
and faculty
>
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Sharon Irish via Peace
> <peace at lists.chambana.net <mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
>
> CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR TO SPEAK ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM, SALAITA
>
> /Columbia Law Professor Katherine Franke joins off-campus
> panel discussion///
>
> 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.
>
> 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 /act/ on her resistance to an aggressive and
> well-funded campaign against critics of Israel (seeLetter from
> Katherine Franke
> <https://web.law.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/microsites/gender-sexuality/Franke_uiuc_letter.pdf>).
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> WHAT: “Academic Freedom & Political Dissent: A Conversation
> with Katherine Frank and the Community”
>
> WHEN: Thursday, September 18, 7-9 p.m.
>
> WHERE: Independent Media Center, 202 S. Broadway, Urbana
>
> (corner of Elm and Broadway)
>
> SPONSORS: Independent Media Center and Illinois Faculty for
> Academic Freedom and Justice
>
> For more information on Katherine Franke, see
> http://www.law.columbia.edu/fac/Katherine_Franke; for Franke’s
> recent interview on the Salaita case, see
> http://m.democracynow.org/stories/14633
>
> CONTACT: Ellen Moodie, ellenmoodie50 at gmail.com
> <mailto:ellenmoodie50 at gmail.com>
>
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