Lectures from 2001-2023
2023
Jonathan Friedman
Director of Free Expression and Education Programs
PEN America
“Academic Freedom 2024: Educational Gag Orders, State Censorship, and the Fight for Higher Education”
2019
Hank F. Reichman
AAUP Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure
Chair, AAUP Foundation
Professor Emeritus of History
California State University, East Bay
2016
Marc Rotenberg
President and CEO
Electronic Privacy Information Center
Professor of Law
Georgetown Law
2022
Jamelle Bouie
Columnist
New York Times
Political Analyst
CBS News
2018
Gene Nichol
Boyd Tinsley Distinguished Professor
University of North Carolina
“Academic Freedom: New Politics, Old School Censorship and Meaningful Constitutional Review“
2015
Natalie Zemon
Davis Henry & Charles Lea Professor of History Emerita Adjunct Professor of History and Medieval Studies Senior Fellow in the Centre for Comparative Literature University of Toronto
“Experiencing Exclusion: Scholarship in the Wake of Inquisition”
2017
Michael Mann
Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science
Pennsylvania State University
“The Madhouse Effect: Climate Change Denial in the Age of Trump”
2014
Douglas Laycock
Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law
Professor of Religious Studies
University of Virginia School of Law
“Religious Liberty and the Culture Wars”
2020
Nadje S. Al-Ali
Robert Family Professor of International Studies
Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies
Brown University
Susan Benesch
Faculty Associate
Harvard University
Adjunct Professor
American University
Director, Dangerous Speech Project
Michael Bérubé
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature
Pennsylvania State University
Melanie Tanielian
Associate Professor
History, University of Michigan
Panel Discussion: “Challenges to Academic Freedom in a Changing Landscape, at Home and Abroad”
2013
Marjorie Heins
Founding Director of the Free Expression Policy Project
“Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom and the Anti-Communist Purge”
2009
Philip Hamburger
Maurice & Hilda Friedman Professor of Law
Columbia University School of Law
“Galileo’s Ghost: Seventeenth-Century Censorship in Twenty- First-Century America”
2005
Floyd Abrams
Walter J. Brennan, Jr. Visiting Professor of First Amendment Law
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Partner, Cahill Gordon & Reindel
2001
Vartan Gregorian
President
Carnegie Corporation of New York
“Universities in the 21st Century: Perils, Challenges, and Prospects”
2012
Robert C. Post
Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law
Yale Law School
2008
Cass R. Sunstein
Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
“My University.com, My Government.com: Is the Internet Really a Blessing for Democracy?”
2004
Noam Chomsky
Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Illegal but Legitimate: A Dubious Doctrine for the Times”
2007
Nadine Strossen
Professor of Law
New York Law School
President of the American Civil Liberties Union
2003
David D. Cole
Professor of Law
Georgetown University Law Center
“Freedom and Terror: September 11th and the 21st Century Challenge”
2010
Michael A. Olivas
William B. Bates Distinguished Chair in Law
University of Houston Law Center
“God, Grades, and Sex: The Developing Law of the College Classroom”
2006
Bill Keller
Executive Editor, The New York Times
2002
Catharine A. MacKinnon
Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law
University of Michigan Law School
“From Powerlessness to Power: The Uses of Academic Freedom”