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Academic freedom, open inquiry, and freedom of speech are under threat as they have not been for decades. Visibly, academics are “canceled,” fired, or subject to lengthy disciplinary proceedings in response to academic writing or public engagement. Less visibly, funding agencies, university bureaucracies, hiring procedures, promotion committees, professional organizations, and journals censor some kinds of research or demand adherence to political causes. Many parts of universities have become politicized or have turned into ideological monocultures, excluding people, ideas, or kinds of work that challenge their orthodoxy. Younger researchers are afraid to speak and write and don’t investigate promising ideas that they fear will endanger their careers.
The two-day Academic Freedom Conference, arranged by the organizing committee, aims to identify ways to restore academic freedom, open inquiry, and freedom of speech and expression on campus and in the larger culture and restore the open debate required for new knowledge to flourish. The conference will focus on the organizational structures leading to censorship and stifling debate and how to repair them.
Conference's transcript (courtesy of Kenneth Judd)
Sponsors
Schedule
Friday, November 4, 2022
- 8:20am - 8:30am PDT
- 8:30am - 9:00am PDT
Why it has Gotten Harder to Find the Truth
Professor, Ethical Leadership at New York University Stern School of Business
- 9:00am - 10:00am PDT
Academic Freedom in STEM
Professor, Chemistry at University of Southern California
Professor, Biology at Williams University
Undergrad Student, Stanford University
Professor Emeritus, Biology at University of Chicago
Professor of Mathematics, Princeton
- 10:15am - 11:00am PDT
Peter Thiel "The End of the Future"
Partner at Founders Fund
- 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Academic Freedom: Practical Solutions
Associate Professor of Finance · McCombs School of Business
Associate Professor of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago
Professor of Business and Professor of Law (by courtesy) | Executive Director, Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics, Georgetown University
William Henry Glasson Professor of Economics, Duke University
Professor of Accounting, Stanford
- 12:00pm - 2:30pm PDT
Lunch: The Radicalization of the Academy
Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University
- 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT
Are the Humanities Liberal?
Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton
Professor of Anthropology, UCLA
Associate Director of The Civil Discourse Project at Duke
Professor of History, Stanford
- 3:45pm - 4:45pm PDT
The Economics of Academic Freedom
Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Professor of Economics at George Mason University and at the Center for the Study of Public Choice
Professor of Political Science, Stanford
- 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
The State of Higher Education
Professor Emeritus of German Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz
Professor of Marketing, Concordia University (Montreal)
Professor of Politics, University of London
Professor of Accounting, Stanford
Saturday, November 5, 2022
- 8:30am - 9:30am PDT
Academic Freedom Applications: Climate Science and Biomedical Sciences
Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Founding Director Copenhagen Consensus
Professor of Health Policy, Stanford University
Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
- 9:30am - 10:15am PDT
The War on the West: a conversation
Author and Journalist
Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto (Emeritus)
- 10:45am - 12:00pm PDT
Academic Freedom: What Is It and What Is It For? (video)
President and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)
John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law, Emerita, New York Law School and Senior Fellow, FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression)
Harold Higgins Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Human Development, University of Chicago
Dean, College of Humanities, University of Utah
Moderator: Brandice Cane-Wrone
Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
- 12:30pm - 2:30pm PDT
Lunch: Scott Atlas "Academia, Science, and Public Health: Will Trust Return?"
Robert Wesson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
- 2:30pm - 3:15pm PDT
Rationality and Academic Freedom
Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University
- 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT
Academic Freedom in Law and Legal Education
Senior Fellow and Director of Constitutional Studies, Manhattan Institute
Richard and Frances Mallery Professor and Director of the Constitutional Law Center, Stanford University
Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California Los Angeles
Professor of Finance, Stanford
- 4:30pm - 5:30pm PDT
The Cost of Academic Dissent
Senior Fellow American Enterprise Institute
Independent Researcher
Robert Mundheim Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania
Professor of Anthropology, San Jose State University
Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
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