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