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It's Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom

Date:
Location:
Lewis Scholars Lounge
Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):
Michael Bérubé

Lewis Honors College is delighted to welcome Prof. Michael Bérubé to campus next week for a talk from his recent book,

It's Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom

Bérubé is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of eleven books to date, including Public Access: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics (Verso, 1994); Life As We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child (Pantheon, 1996; paper, Vintage, 1998); and What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and "Bias" in Higher Education (W. W. Norton, 2006). He has also published two edited collections, Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities (Routledge, 1995; with Cary Nelson) and The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies (Blackwell, 2005).

The talk is March 2, 2023 at 4:00, and is free and open to the public.  Please forward to your departments and share widely!  We hope to see you there.