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

[Stuart Levy via Peace]

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 -

    ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    From: *Niloofar Shambayati* <niloofar.peace at gmail.com
    <mailto:niloofar.peace at gmail.com>>
    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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