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Tag Archives: academic freedom
Ruth Ben-Ghiat: “Intellectual Freedom in an Authoritarian Age”
As I promised in an earlier post, here is the video of Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s outstanding Davis, Markert, and Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom at the University of Michigan. It is well worth watching!
Collective Action for Academic Freedom (Gary Krenz)
I mentioned in a comment that last week, we released a new collection of essays on academic freedom: In the Spirit of H. Chandler Davis: Activism and the Struggle for Academic Freedom. (Shameless plug: available here.) This is a book I edited … Continue reading
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Tagged academic freedom, democracy, education, higher ed, higher-education, history, politics, teaching
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Affirming Democracy, Gathering Resistance 