Against the Censorship and Criminalization of Academic Political Speech

October 23, 2020
4pm, Zoom

Last month, Zoom, Facebook, and YouTube all shut down an open academic webinar, organized by a San Francisco State University department, and featuring Palestinian liberation advocate Leila Khaled. Why are big tech platforms making decisions that violate academic freedom? Why is speech about Palestinian rights always the first to be censored, and how should academic communities respond? NYU’s AAUP chapter hosts a webinar panel of New York-based speakers as part of a national day of action to address these urgent questions.

Katherine Franke (Columbia University)
Nerdeen Kiswani (CUNY Law School/Within our Lifetime)
Fred Moten (NYU)
Radhika Sainath (Palestine Legal)

with a message from Leila Khaled

Moderated by Andrew Ross (NYU-AAUP and USACBI)

Sponsors

Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
Students for Justice in Palestine
NYU–AAUP
Jewish Voice for Peace
American Studies Program G
allatin Human Rights Initiative

USACBI @ usacbi.org
NYU-AAUP @ web.nyu-aaup.org