2021 Conference: Intellectual Diversity and Free Speech on Campus
"The Race Question and Freedom of Expression," Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor at Harvard Law School
Panel 1: What are the empirical facts about lack of intellectual diversity in academia and what are the causes of existing imbalances?
- Paper: Lee Jussim, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, Rutgers University
- Discussant: Philip Tetlock, Annenberg University Professor, University of Pennsylvania, and Cory Clark, Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Panel 2: In what precise ways and to what degree is this imbalance a problem?
- Paper: Joshua Dunn, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Colorado
- Discussant: Amna Khalid, Associate Professor of History, Carleton College
- Paper: Musa Al-Gharbi, Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow in Sociology, Columbia University
- Paper: Conor Friedersdorf, Staff writer at The Atlantic
But is Free speech, as traditionally interpreted, even the right ideal? -- a Debate
- Ulrich Baer, University Professor of Comparative Literature, German, and English, NYU
- Keith Whittington, Professor of Politics, Princeton University
What is To Be Done?
- Paper: Nancy Costello, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, MSU. Founder and Director of the First Amendment Law Clinic; Director of the Free Expression Online Library and Resource Center.
- Paper: Jonathan Friedman, Director, Free Expression and Education at PEN America