[Peace] Fwd: Sept 18, 7pm, IMC: CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR TO SPEAK ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM, SALAITA

[Niloofar Shambayati via Peace]

A reminder of the discussion with Professor Franke & U of I students and
faculty

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ellen Moodie <ellenmoodie50 at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Peace] Sept 18, 7pm, IMC: CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR TO SPEAK ON
ACADEMIC FREEDOM, SALAITA
To: Niloofar Shambayati <niloofar.peace at gmail.com>


sent!

On Sep 14, 2014, at 5:42 PM, Niloofar Shambayati <niloofar.peace at gmail.com>
wrote:

Hi,

I'm wondering if there's a flyer publicizing this event? If so, could you
please send it to me and the peace list Peace at lists.chambana.net?  Thanks.

Niloofar Shambayati

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Sharon Irish via Peace <
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 (see Letter 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
>
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Niloofar





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