BY JOHN K. WILSON

Here are some events happening in the next month that relate to free expression and academic freedom issues and may interest AcademeBlog readers (followed by some recordings of events held earlier this year, and deadlines for some proposals and grants. Readers are encouraged to mention additional events in the comments.

Below are the upcoming online events related to campus free speech and academic freedom (all times listed are Central Time, and preregistration is usually required for events):

April 8, 12:30pm CT: PEN America: How Writers and Activists Can Safeguard Protest Rights, weekly events April 8, 15, 22, 29 at noon CT (12:30pm CT on April 8)

 

LeFrak Forum’s 31st Annual Program: Freedom of Speech and Intellectual Diversity on Campus

April 8, 4-5:30pm CT, “The Race Question and Freedom of Expression,” Randall Kennedy

April 9, Intellectual Freedom: 10:30am-12, 1-2:30pm, 3-4:45pm CT

April 10, Freedom of Speech: 10:30am-12, 1-2:30pm, 3:30-5:15pm CT

Speakers include Lee Jussim, Joshua Dunn, Musa Al-Gharbi, Jonathan Marks, Nancy Costello, Jonathan Friedman, and a debate between Ulrich Baer and Keith Whittington

April 10 New York AAUP annual conference

8-10am CT: Updates on Systemic Issues and Actions Taken – Voices from AAUP National, with Michael DeCesare (Chair, AAUP Committee on College and University Governance), Hank Reichman (Chair, AAUP Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure), and Joerg Tiede (AAUP Director of Research), followed by Q&A.

12-2pm CT: Homecourt Threats to Academic Freedom, Tenure, and Shared Governance – Daniel Kotzin (Medaille College), Thomas X. Carroll (Keuka College), Mark James (Molloy College), Robert (Bob) Hansbrough (The College of St. Rose), Mary Rose Kubal (WNYFC)

April 12, 1pm CT, Freedom Forum Free Expression Festival: A Conversation with Dave Barry.

April 13, 1pm CT, Freedom Forum Free Expression Festival: A Conversation with DeRay Mckesson.

April 13, 7pm CT, Daniel J. Mahoney: From the Culture of Repudiation to the Cancel Culture: How Self-Loathing Gave Way to the Specter of Intellectual Tyranny.

April 14, 11am CT, Scholars at Risk: Leadership in the Age of Cancel Culture: Responding to Demands for Exclusion or Removal. Join Scholars at Risk (SAR) and the SAR-United States Section for Lines, Line-Drawing, and Consequences, a five-part discussion series that will explore common situations that invoke core values on college and university campuses. Every other Wednesday at 11am CT, SAR Executive Director Rob Quinn will lead a discussion about a particular paradigm, drawing on recent case examples. The sessions will be interactive, and will offer participants tools for assessing incidents and developing pro-values responses for their campus.

April 14, Noon CT, AAUP Member Webinar, “Rebudgeting the university to achieve equitable educational outcomes” with Jason Thomas Wozniak and Christopher Newfield.

April 14, 1pm CT, Freedom Forum Free Expression Festival: A Conversation with Julie K. Brown.

April 15, 8-9am CT: Scholars at Risk: Free Universities: Putting the Academic Freedom Index Into Action Through the UN Human Rights Systems.

April 15, 1pm CT, Freedom Forum Free Expression Festival: A Conversation with William McGurn.

April 15, 4pm CT, “A Right to Lie? Presidents, Other Liars, and the First Amendment” with Catherine Ross.

April 15, 6pm CT, Freedom Forum Free Expression Awards.

April 16, 2-3:15pm CT, Save Ohio Higher Ed VI: The Debt Trap—Students, Equity and the Ohio Economy. .

April 20-21, Noon-2:30pm CT each day, University of California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, #SpeechMatters 2021: Charting the Course for Campus Expression and Engagement. Featuring Greta Anderson, Inside Higher Ed; Aidan Arasasingham, UC Student Association;  Erwin Chemerinsky, UC Berkeley School of Law; Michelle Deutchman, UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement; Renée DiResta, Stanford Internet Observatory; Jennifer Domagal-Goldman, ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge at Civic Nation; President Michael V. Drake, University of California; Katya Ehresman, Campus Vote Project; Mark Ghaly MD, MPH, CA HHS; Howard Gillman, UC Irvine; David Greene, Electronic Frontier Foundation; Alexandria Harris, The Andrew Goodman Foundation; Rafael Jaime, UCLA; Alice E. Marwick, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Syreeta Nolan, UCSD; Ebonee Rice, News Literacy Project; Emerson Sykes, ACLU; Naomi Waters, UC Riverside; Keith E. Whittington, Academic Freedom Alliance; Essence Wynter, UCSB.

April 27, 4pm CT, “SILENCE IS VIOLENCE, AND SO IS SPEECH: LANGUAGE AND POWER SINCE THE REAGAN YEARS” with Matt Shafer

April 29, 7pm CT, Freedom, Populism, and Big Tech, with Bryan Caplan.

May 5, 2pm CT, Brian Soucek discussing diversity statements.

May 11, 7pm CT, The Role of Free Expression on University Campuses, UChicago faculty speakers Leila Brammer, Program Director for Public Discourse, Jay Ellison, Dean of Students in the College, and Charles Lipson, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science.

 

Some recorded events from earlier this year:

UC-Merced Free Speech Week events from February 2021:

University of California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement Speech Spotlight Live series.

ACE webinars 2021: Free Speech on Campus: Covid-19 and Beyond.

Oakland University AAUP Winter 2021, “Has Neoliberalism Run Its Course? AAUP, Politics and the Common Good” with Rudy Fichtenbaum, former National AAUP President and Professor Emeritus of Economics from Wright State University,

New Deal for Higher Ed launch, Feb. 11, 2021.

University of Michigan Symposium: Challenges to Academic Freedom in a Changing Landscape, at Home and Abroad, Feb. 16, 2021.

 

Research and Presentation Deadlines:

April 16: deadline for proposals for the AAUP shared governance conference, which will be held online June 14-18,

May 7: deadline for proposals from professors to apply for one of five $30,000 grants from Heterodox Academy to conduct intervention studies with undergraduate students. Applicants must propose a 2021-22 study testing an intervention (virtual or in-person) that may affect students’ empathy, intellectual humility, curiosity, open-minded cognition, or self-censorship.

May 31: deadline to submit paper proposals to the FIRE faculty conference in Chicago, October 14-16, 2021 (the conference will be in-person and also available online this year).