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9:00 AM – 9:10 AM: Opening Remarks and Day Overview
- Katherine Newman, Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs, University of California
9:10 AM – 10:15 AM: Keynote
- Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor, Director, Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation and Director, Democratic Knowledge Project, Harvard University
Discussant:
- Sean Gailmard, Herman Royer Professor of Political Economy, and Chair of the University Committee on Academic Freedom
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10:15 AM – 10:30 AM: Break
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10:30 AM – 11:45 AM: Basic principles and the approach to academic freedom and free speech on campus
This panel will explore the fundamental principles of academic freedom and free speech, examining their origins, legal frameworks, and practical applications in higher education. Panelists will discuss the roles and responsibilities of faculty, students, and institutions in fostering environments where diverse ideas can be expressed, debated, and respectfully challenged.
Discussants:
- Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Berkeley Law, Co-Chair of the National Advisory Board, University of California’s National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement
- Sigal Ben-Porath, MRMJJ Presidential Professor, University of Pennsylvania
- Robert Quinn, Executive Director, Scholars at Risk Network
- Emerson Sykes, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project
Moderator:
- Michelle Deutchman, Executive Director, UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement
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11:45 AM – 12:30 PM: Lunch
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12:30 PM – 1:45 PM: DEI and academic freedom (Concurrent Session)
This session will examine the dynamics between diversity, equity and inclusion-related programs and services and academic freedom. Panelists will discuss current controversies, the implications of federal and state legislative actions, and how universities can uphold their commitments to diversity, inclusion, and academic freedom.
Discussants:
- john a. powell, Professor of Law and Director of the Othering & Belonging Institute, Berkeley Law
- Brian Soucek, Professor of Law and Chancellor’s Fellow, UC Davis School of Law
- Peter W. Wood, President, National Association of Scholars
Moderator:
- Natasha Warikoo, Lenore Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Tufts University
12:30 PM – 1:45 PM: Title VI and academic freedom and free speech (Concurrent Session)
This session provides an overview of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin in programs receiving federal funding, and how it intersects with the principles of academic freedom.
Discussants:
- Robert Corn-Revere, Chief Counsel, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)
- Veena Dubal, Professor of Law, UC Irvine, and General Counsel of AAUP
- Eugene Volokh, Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, and Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus, UCLA
Moderator:
- Mary-Rose Papandrea, Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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1:45 PM – 2:00 PM: Break
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2:00 PM – 3:15 PM: Tenure and academic freedom (Concurrent Session)
This panel explores the evolution of tenure and academic freedom. Panelists will examine whether traditional tenure still protects academic freedom, the role of contingent faculty, and the effects of external political pressures on the tenure review process.
Discussants:
- David Rabban, Dahr Jamail, Randal Hage Jamail, and Robert Lee Jamail Regents Chair in Law and Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Texas, Austin, and Former General Counsel and Former Chair of AAUP Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure.
- Henry Reichman, Former Chair, AAUP Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure, and Professor Emeritus of History, California State University, East Bay
- Hollis Robbins, Professor of English and Special Advisor for Humanities Diplomacy, University of Utah
Moderator:
- Margaret Roberts, Professor of Political Science, UC San Diego and Member of the University Senate’s Committee on Academic Freedom
2:00 PM – 3:15 PM: Academic freedom, protests, and democratic governance on campus (Concurrent Session)
This session examines the principles of academic freedom alongside questions about academic institutions’ responses to dissent, the rights and responsibilities of faculty and students to engage in protest, and the implications for shared governance and democratic principles.
Discussants:
- Josiah Beharry, Student Regent, Ph. D candidate in Interdisciplinary Humanities, UC Merced
- Rana Jaleel, Associate Professor on Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies, UC Davis and Chair of AAUP’s Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure
- Risa Lieberwitz, Professor of Labor and Employment Law, School of Industrial and Labor Relations and Academic Director of the Worker Institute at Cornell University and Former General Counsel of the AAUP, and Member of AAUP’s Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure
- Keith Whittington, Davis Boies Professor of Yale Law School and Founding Chair of the Academic Freedom Alliance’s Academic Committee
Moderator:
- Chris Hoofnagle, Faculty Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology and Professor of Law in Residence, UC Berkeley
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3:15 PM – 3:30 PM: Break
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3:30 PM – 4:45 PM: Roundtable: External intervention in the university and institutional neutrality
Presented by the University Senate’s Committee on Academic Freedom
Discussants:
- Judith Butler, Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School and former Maxine Elliot Chair in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory, UC Berkeley
- Howard Gillman, Chancellor, UC Irvine, and Co-Chair of the National Advisory Board, University of California’s National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement
- Barry O’Neill, Professor of Political Science, UCLA, and Vice Chair of the University Committee on Academic Freedom
Moderator:
- Sean Gailmard, Herman Royer Professor of Political Economy, and Chair of the University Committee on Academic Freedom
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4:45 PM – 5:00 PM: Closing Remarks
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