Dangerous Professors: Academic Freedom & the National Security Campus

First in a series of Nonstop video conferences on higher education issues.
Thursday, March 25, 7 pm
Nonstop Institute of Yellow Springs.
305 N. Walnut Street

For more information, contact iveta.jusova@nonstopinstitute.org or call 937-767-1363.

Event is free of charge, donations welcome.

Professors Malini Johar Schueller (University of Florida) and Ashley Dawson (Graduate Center, CUNY) will discuss (via iChat) their research into threats to academic freedom and political dissent on US campuses in the aftermath of 9/11. Taking their cue from Edward Said’s challenge that academics must be engaged public intellectuals and viewing campuses as historically sites of radical democracy, Dawson and Schueller insist that production of knowledge in the academy cannot be de-coupled from questions of social justice. Their talk will foreground various ways in which academic freedom, the necessary prerequisite for a socially and publicly engaged academia, is being curbed on our campuses today. This is a first in a series of Nonstop video conferences on higher education issues.