New York University’s Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Center
Academic Freedom in the Age of Permanent Warfare
April 3 - 4, 2008
Plenary Session
April 3, 2008, 5 - 7pm
Juan Carlos I Center Auditorium
53 Washington Square South
Ellen Schrecker, Professor of History, Yeshiva University, Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Center Fellow, “The Squeaky Wheels Go Round Again: Academic Freedom After 9/11”
Reception to Follow
April 4 Conference Program Schedule
9 – 5:30pm
NYU’s Wasserman Center
133 E. 13th St., 2nd fl (between 3rd & 4th)
9:00 am Welcome
John Sexton, President, New York University
9:30 am Keynote Address
Roger Bowen, Director, Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows Program
10:00 am Academic Freedom: Theory & Practice
Norman Dorsen, Chair & Comment, Professor of Law, New York University
David Hollinger, Professor of History, University of California at Berkeley
Joan Scott, Institute for Advanced Study
Robert Post, Professor of Law, Yale University
11:30 am Academic Freedom & the Question of Israel & Palestine
Khaled Fahmy, Chair & Comment, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, New York University
Zachary Lockman, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, New York University
Tony Judt, University Professor and Director, The Remarque Institute, New York University
Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies, Director of the Middle East Institute, Columbia University
1:00 pm Lunch on your own
2:30 pm Labor & the Corporate University
David Montgomery, Chair & Comment, Professor of History,Emeritus, Yale University
Sheila Slaughter, Professor of Higher Education, University of Georgia
Jennifer Washburn, journalist and author
Barbara Bowen, President, Professional Staff Congress; Professor of English, Queens College, City University of New York
4:00 pm The High Schools
Mary Nolan, Chair & Comment, New York University; Brooklyn For Peace
Deborah Almontaser, Founding Principal of the Kahlil Gibran International Academy
Joel Westheimer, Professor, University Research Chair in Democracy; Education Director, Democratic Dialogue, University of Ottawa
Gary Anderson, Professor of Education, New York University
5:30 pm Reception
Sponsored by The Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Foundation