[URBANTH-L] CFP: FREE INQUIRY AT RISK: UNIVERSITIES IN DANGEROUS TIMES (NYC)

[Angela Jancius]

Call for Papers
FREE INQUIRY AT RISK: UNIVERSITIES IN DANGEROUS TIMES
Sponsor:   Social Research Journal, Ford Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of
New York

Over three days, the conference speakers will explore how the trends and
challenges that face universities in the US and abroad today may affect the
core values of academic freedom and free inquiry. These current trends
include rapid globalization, changes in the geo-political arena, modes of
financing, the extension of higher education franchises, the rise of
collateral institutes and research centers, the relationship between
specialization and integration, regime change, and other conditions of
duress. For the keynote event, endangered scholars from Ethiopia, South
Africa, Belarus, and Iran will discuss their experiences in their home
country where they faced persecution, prosecution, and imprisonment.

This conference commemorates the 75th anniversary of The New Schools
University in Exile, that remarkable haven of academic freedom and free
inquiry created by Alvin Johnson, the first president of The New School, for
the scholars he presciently rescued from the ravages of fascism. The
conference begins with a talk by Ira Katznelson, Former Dean of The New
School for Social Research about the Two Founding Moments of the New School.
John L. Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, NYC Full conference $30,
$10 per session (Students are free)

Contact Information
Roberta Sutton
65 Fifth Avenue, Rm 375
New York NY 11238 USA
Phone: 212-229-5776 x3121
Email: socres at newschool.edu
URL: http://www.socres.org/freeinquiry