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
  
  
   

Panel 3: What is To Be Done?

• 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