Hate Speech or Free Speech: The Politics of Language on College Campuses

Join us for this event featuring the work and perspectives of linguists and linguistic anthropologists as well as legal scholars, college administrators, cultural anthropologists, and journalists.

Schedule

9:30 a.m. | Introductory Keynote
David Cole, National Legal Director, ACLU

10:10 a.m. | Coffee Break

10:30 a.m. | Morning Session: Keywords
Academic Freedom
Nicholas DeGenova, Independent Scholar

Campus Activism
Sa’ed Atshan, Professor, Swarthmore College,

The Law on Campus
Abner Greene, Professor, Fordham University

11:30 a.m. | Panel
Moderator: Janet McIntosh, Professor, Brandeis Unviersity

12 p.m. | Lunch Break

2 p.m. | Afternoon Session: Situations on the Ground
Introduction
Danilyn Rutherford, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research

Teaching Anti-Racism
Renee Blake, Professor, NYU

Speech Codes
Mariam Durrani, Professor, Hamilton College

Protesting the State
Eva-Marie Dubuisson, Professor, Boğaziçi University

3 p.m. | Panel
Moderator: Asale Angel-Ajani, Professor, City College of New York

3:45 p.m. | Wrap-Up Keynote
Lane Greene, Language Columnist, The Economist

This event is free and open to the public. If you have any questions, please contact Ayala Fader at speechoncampus@gmail.com.

Sponsors: New York Academy of Sciences, Anthropology Section | Society for Linguistic Anthropology | Fordham University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology | Fordham University, Dean’s Fund | Montclair State University, College of Humanities and Social Sciences | City College of New York, Colin Powell School of Civic and Global Leadership | New York University, Department of Anthropology

Organizers: Sonia Das, NYU | Elsa Davidson, Montclair State University | Ayala Fader, Fordham University | Irina Carlota Silber, City College of New York