[Bilimsel Haber] "Academic Freedom"

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From: Zuzanna Kobrzynski <zk3 at nyu.edu>


New York University?s
Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Center
2nd Annual Conference

Friday, April 3rd, 2009
9:30am -6:00pm

Helen and Martin Kimmel Center
60 Washington Square South
Room 905/907

To RSVP, please email zk3 at nyu.edu


9:30 am Welcome
? Stuart Ewen, Chairman, The Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Center
Board of Directors; Distinguished Professor,
City University of New York

9:45 am Keynote Address
? Alison Bernstein, Vice President Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom
Program, Ford Foundation

10:15 am Academic Capitalism and the Commodification of Knowledge
? David L. Kirp, Chair and Comment, Professor of Public Policy,
University of California at Berkeley
? Marc Bousquet, Professor of English, Santa Clara University
? Jennifer Washburn, Journalist and Author

11:45 am Break

12:00 pm Academic Freedom and the International Perspective
? Robert Quinn, Chair and Comment, Director, Scholars at Risk Network,
New York University
? Philip G. Altbach, Director, Center for International Higher Education,
Boston College
? Joe Stork, Deputy Director, Human Rights Watch, Middle East and
North Africa Division

1:15 pm Lunch on your own

2:15 pm Science, Technology, and Academic Freedom
? Jeff Schmidt, Chair and Comment, Author
? Mary Ebeling, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Department of Culture
and Communication, Drexel University.
? Denis G. Rancourt, Professor of Physics, University of Ottawa

4:15 pm The Red Scare and the Academy
? James Livingston, Chair and Comment, Professor of History, Rutgers  
University
? Phillip Deery, Ewen Fellow and Professor of History, Victoria
University, Melbourne
? Stephen Leberstein, Ewen Fellow and Professor of Political Science,
Brooklyn College
? Mary Robb, University of Edinburgh


5:30 pm Closing Remarks
? Cary Nelson, Professor of English, University of Illinois at  
Urbana-Champaign


6:00 pm Reception


Zuzanna Kobrzynski
<zk3 at nyu.edu>



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