Academic Freedom at Risk: A Symposium on Campus Policing, Surveillance, and Censorship. Sponsored by Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies/Mellon Foundation’s Affirming Multivocal Humanities Program, and HISB.

This half-day symposium features two panels on policing, surveillance, and the future of academic freedom on US campuses. Bringing together scholars, teachers, and activists, this event seeks to better understand the threats to academic freedom that we’re currently facing and to start collectively developing strategies for preserving our freedom to learn and teach.

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EVENT SCHEDULE

2:00 to 3:15pm: Campus Policing and the Freedom to Learn

• Yalile Suriel History, University of Minnesota
• Jude Paul Matias Dizon Higher Education Leadership, California State University, Stanislaus
• Roderick Ferguson Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Yale University

3:15 to 3:30pm: Coffee Break

3:30 to 4:50pm: Studying and Working Under Surveillance

• Robert Ovetz Political Science, San José State University
• Vineeta Singh Interdisciplinary Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University
• Fatima El-Tayeb Ethnicity, Race, & Migration;Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Yale University

5:00 to 6:00pm Reception