#  Perspectives on Academic Freedom 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 25, 2024** 

 10:15AM - 05:30PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **CGIS South S010 Tsai Auditorium**  



 

 



 

##  Please register to attend this event [here.](https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/history-dept-landing-page/perspectives-academic-freedom)

 Please save the date for an upcoming symposium hosted by the Department of History titled **“Perspectives on Academic Freedom.”** This in-person day-long symposium will take place on Thursday, April 25, 2024 at the Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, S010, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. We are grateful to the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs for their sponsorship of this event.

 In 2019, alarmed by attacks on academic freedom happening simultaneously in several parts of the world (Brazil, India, Turkey, and the USA, among others), a group of faculty in the History Department decided to organize a year-long seminar series to discuss the role of academics in an age of advancing authoritarianism. The pandemic derailed our plans. The crises of the past few months have given us a new sense of urgency. How can the university remain a place of unfettered critical inquiry and expression when its mission is overtly challenged by corporate and governing interests?

 The revised program is detailed below:

 **10:15 am:** Opening remarks, by **Sugata Bose**

 **10:30 to 11:45 am: William Kirby**, Harvard University (keynote address): University Governance and Academic Freedom, moderated by **David Armitage**

 **11:45 am to 1:00 pm:** Lunch Break

 **1:00 to 2:30 pm, Panel 1: Academic Freedom around the Globe**

 **Jayati Ghosh**, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

 **Zeynep Kadirbeyoglu**, Brandeis University

 **Sidney Chalhoub**, Harvard University

 Moderated by **Cemal Kafadar**

   
**2:30 to 3:00 pm:** Coffee Break

 **3:00 to 4:00 pm: Joan Scott** (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton), joining on Zoom, interviewed by **Kirsten Weld** and **Sidney Chalhoub**

 **4:00 to 5:30 pm, Panel 2: Academic Freedom in the US**

 **Durba Mitra**, Harvard University

 **Beshara Doumani**, Brown University

 **Brian Connolly**, University of South Florida

 Moderated by **Rosie Bsheer**

   
This event is open to members of the Harvard community only. **Please bring your Harvard ID for check in.**

##  Please register to attend this event [here.](https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/history-dept-landing-page/perspectives-academic-freedom)



 

 



 

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