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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.us/meeting/register/tJwvceisrjwiGNFcPKimzFnwzDDcYrWOJJMX#/registration

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.