NYU's Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Center Presents

"Academic Freedom in the 1960s"

April 1 from 12-6:00pm

at NYU's Glucksman Ireland House

One Washington Mews, between Washington Square North and East 8th Street

Join New York University's Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Center to examine the key fronts in the present battles over higher ed, and their historical parallels in previous eras.  The conference will examine successive, well-funded ideological assaults on academic freedom by outside pressure groups aimed at undermining the legitimacy of scholarly study during the 1960s.

For more information and to RSVP, please contact Zuzanna Kobryzynski at zk3@nyu.edu

Program Schedule

12:15-1:00pm - Keynote Address
•Ellen Schrecker, Professor, Yeshiva University

1:00-1:15pm - Break

1:15-3:15pm  Civil Rights Panel
•Joy Williamson-Lott, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Washington, “Academic Freedom in the South”
•Martin Duberman, Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at Lehman College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York, “Professor Howard Zinn at Spelman College”
•Stephen Aby, Education and Sociology Librarian and Bibliographer, Professor of Bibliography, University of Akron, “the Angela Davis Case”
•Robert Cohen, Professor of History and Social Studies, NYU, Chair

3:30-3:45pm - Break

3:30-5:30pm - Vietnam War Panel •H. Bruce Franklin, John Cotton Dana Professor of English and American Studies, Rutgers University--Newark, “The Franklin Case at Stanford”
•Moss Roberts, Professor, East Asian Studies Department, NYU, “Concerned Asian Scholars, the Vietnam War and Academic Freedom”
•Dick Ohmann, Benjamin Waite Professor of English, Emeritus, Wesleyan University, “Academic Freedom at High Tide in the 1960s”
•Marjorie Heins, Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Center Fellow, Chair

**Reception to Follow**