[Peace] Thursday, September 18 (2014) Academic Freedom discussion at IMC

[Karen Medina via Peace]

Interested in the conversation about Academic Freedom happening right
here in Champaign Urbana?

 This Thursday, September 18, Katherine Franke, a top national scholar
of law, religion, and human rights, will speak at a community
conversation focused on academic freedom, political dissent, and
particular legal issues involved in political action on
Israel-Palestine as well as the firing of Salaita from a tenured
faculty position.

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. Joining more than 5000 other
faculty who are boycotting the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, she announced her decision
to cancel a previously scheduled speaking engagement at UIUC in a
September 2 letter to Chancellor Phyllis Wise. (See Letter from
Katherine Franke.)

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
graduate students Brenda Sanya (Department of Education Policy,
Organization and Leadership) and Eman Genayam (Department of English).

WHAT: “Academic Freedom & Political Dissent: A Conversation with
Katherine Franke and the Community”

WHEN: Thursday, September 18, 7-9 p.m.

WHERE: Independent Media Center, 202 S. Broadway, Urbana (Elm and Broadway)

https://www.facebook.com/events/1463061757291394/

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

*Event will be live-streamed through the Urbana-Champaign Independent
Media Center's website at www.ucimc.org.