Dissent, Democracy, & Higher Education: Under Attack Panel Discussion
October 22 @ 5:00 pm
“Dissent, Democracy, & Higher Education: Under Attack”
Learn how the legal attacks on campus protests and free speech in New York
fit into the broader national context.
Tuesday, October 22nd @ 5:15pm
Room 1006, Humanities Building, Stony Brook University /
Hybrid Event (Zoom registration here)
SPEAKERS
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Tariq Habash – former DOE employee and first person to resign from Biden administration to protest the US’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza; Fellow, American Association of University Professor’s Center for Defense of Academic Freedom
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Rana Jaleel – Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies and Chair of the American Association of University Professors’ Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure
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Danny Shaw – Latin American & Caribbean Studies Professor & Ethnographer who was doxed, harassed, fired from CUNY, and detained and interrogated by the FBI and DHS for his pro-Palestine activism
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Jonathan Wallace – longtime movement lawyer based in New York doing pro bono work to support faculty and students attacked for their support of Palestinian liberation
** This will be a hybrid event. If you cannot attend in person, you can register here for the Zoom link.
Full link: https://stonybrook.zoom.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Changing Systems of Power, the Humanities Institute, and the Asian American Justice & Innovation Lab and is supported by Mellon’s Affirming Multivocal Humanities Program.