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Faculty-Student Discussions on 
The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots
by John Swanson Jacobs
Edited by Jonathan D.S. Schroeder
February 28th, March 21st, and March 28th
ZSR Library Room 665
Facilitated by Meredith Farmer (English) and Jennifer Greiman (English/HI Director)
In advance of Dr. Jonathan Schroeder‘s visit to Wake Forest March 27th and 28th, the Humanities Institute is sponsoring a series of Faculty-Student Discussions on his new edition of John Jacobs’s lost narrative, The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots. The discussions will take place over three meetings:
Friday, February 28th at 1:30pm (First Half of Book)
Friday, March 21st at 1:30pm (Second Half of Book)
Friday, March 28th at 1:30pm (Discussion with Dr. Schroeder)
ZSR Library Room 665
You may register for any and all of the three meetings you are able to attend. Once you register, you will receive information on how to obtain your copy of the book. Please share the attached flyer with your networks! 
 
Jonathan Schroeder will present the public lecture, “The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: John Jacobs and the Jacobs Family in North Carolina” at 4:00pm on Thursday, March 27th. Look for more information on this event soon on the HI website and in the HI March Newsletter.
This event is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Wake Forest University Humanities Institute together: Democracy demands wisdom. 
Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed at these events do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Register for Humanities Conversation: Academic Freedom and the Humanities, Thursday, March 20th at 4:00pm

Humanities Conversation: Academic Freedom and the Humanities
Thursday, March 20th
4:00PM | Heritage Room
Reynolda Hall

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Please join the HI for a Humanities Conversation on Academic Freedom and the Humanities on Thursday 20 March at 4:00pm. This Conversation will take place at the end of the open comment period (11 February – 21 March) on Wake Forest’s Draft Statement on Freedom and Expression and Academic Freedom, and it will offer a forum for faculty to think together about the draft policy and about the threats of recent federal executive orders to humanities scholarship. There have been several events so far this semester reflecting on academic freedom, including Law School Dean Andrew Klein’s address at Founder’s Day, and two discussions hosted by the WFU chapter of the AAUP.

The Conversation on 20 March will carry the larger campus discussion into a more focused analysis of how humanists define and defend academic freedom as a collective, professional right as well as a protection of individual scholarly inquiry.

The Humanities Institute has begun to assemble a page of resources on our website for faculty on Academic Freedom, and it will be the topic of our Annual Spring Symposium on 29 April, with a keynote by Dr. Jennifer Ruth, an expert on academic freedom in the humanities.

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