FREE SPEECH AND THE ACADEMY

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1 FREE SPEECH AND THE ACADEMY FREE MARKET INSTITUTE AT TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES AT GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY DIVISION OF INSTITUTIONAL DIVERSITY, EQUITY & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AT TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY LUBBOCK, TEXAS DECEMBER 1-3, 2016 PROGRAM SCHEDULE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, :30 7:00PM WHY FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS MATTERS: SCOPE AND LIMITS REMARKS FROM PROF. DONALD DOWNS ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, LAW, AND JOURNALISM GLENN B. AND CLEONE ORR HAWKINS PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON COLLEGE OF HUMAN SCIENCES, ROOM 169 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, :00 5:15PM ARRIVAL AND WELCOME 5:15 6:30PM SESSION 1 FREE SPEECH AND TOLERATION 6:30 7:30PM REMNANT TRUST RECEPTION JAMES MILL LIBERTY OF THE PRESS JOHN LOCKE SOME THOUGHTS REGARDING EDUCATION JOHN LOCKE LETTERS CONCERNING TOLERATION WILLIAM PENN THE GREAT CASE FOR LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE (OR THE TRIAL OF) RALPH WALDO EMERSON ORATION BRITISH PARLIAMENT VINDICAE ACADEMIARUM 7:30 9:30PM DINNER

2 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, :00 9:30AM COFFEE AND LIGHT BREAKFAST 9:30 10:45AM SESSION 2 FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS 10:45 11:00AM COFFEE BREAK 11:00AM 12:15PM SESSION 3 THE IMPORTANCE OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM 12:15 1:30PM LUNCH MATADOR LOUNGE, STUDENT UNION BUILDING, TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY 1:30PM PROGRAM ADJOURNS

3 FREE SPEECH AND THE ACADEMY FREE MARKET INSTITUTE AT TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES AT GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY DIVISION OF INSTITUTIONAL DIVERSITY, EQUITY & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AT TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY LUBBOCK, TEXAS DECEMBER 2-3, 2016 DISCUSSION COLLOQUIUM READING LIST Session 1 Free Speech and Toleration Mill, John Stuart. (1977). Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion. In J. M Robson, Ed., Essays on Politics and Society. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press Marcuse, Herbert. (1969). Repressive Tolerance. In Robert P. Wolff, Barrington Moore, Jr., and Herbert Marcuse, Eds., A Critique of Pure Tolerance. Boston, MA: Beacon Press Session 2 Free Speech on Campus Woodward, C. Vann et. al. (1974). Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression at Yale. Submitted December 23. New Haven, CT: Yale University. Barnes, Kenneth J. (1974). A Dissenting Statement. In C. Vann Woodward et. al., Report on the Committee on Freedom of Expression at Yale. Submitted December 23. New Haven, CT: Yale University. Downs, Donald A. (2007). The Return of the Proprietary University and the New Politics of Free Speech and Civil Liberty. In Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press Roberts v. Haragan, 346 F. Supp. 2d 853 (N.D. Tex 2004).

4 Session 3 The Importance of Academic Freedom Duarte, José L. et. al. (2015). Political Diversity Will Improve Psychological Science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Ainslie, George. (2015). A Cohesive Moral Community is Already Patrolling Behavioral Science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Baumeister, Roy F. (2015). Recognizing and Coping With Our Own Prejudices: Fighting Liberal Bias Without Conservative Input. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Belt-Hallahmi, Benjamin. (2015). Method and Matter in the Social Sciences: Umbilically Tied to the Enlightenment. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Everett, Jim A. C. (2015). Wait You re a Conservative? Political Diversity and the Dilemma of Disclosure. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Hilbig, Benjamin E. and Morten Moshagen. (2015). A Predominance of Self-Identified Democrats is No Evidence of a Leftward Bias. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Pfister, Hans- Rüdiger and Gisela Böhm. (2015). Political Orientations Do Not Cancel Out, and Politics is Not About Truth. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Pinker, Steven. (2015). Political Bias, Explanatory Depth, and Narratives of Progress. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Shweder, Richard A. (2015). Should Social Psychologists Create a Disciplinary Affirmative Action Program for Political Conservatives? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Rauch, Jonathan. (2013). The Humanitarian Threat. In Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought. Expanded Edition. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press Tocqueville, Alexis de. (2010). Of the Omnipotence of the Majority in the United States and Its Effects. In Democracy in America, vol. 2. Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, Inc Tocqueville, Alexis de. (2010). Of What Tempers Tyranny of the Majority in the United States. In Democracy in America, vol. 2. Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, Inc

5 ABOUT THE DISCUSSION COLLOQUIUM LEADER PROF. DONALD DOWNS ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, LAW, AND JOURNALISM GLENN B. AND CLEONE ORR HAWKINS PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON Donald Downs is the Alexander Meiklejohn Professor of Political Science, Law, and Journalism at UW-Madison, and the Glenn B. and Cleone Orr Hawkins Professor of Political Science at the University. He is also the director and cofounder of the University s Wisconsin Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy (2007-present). The Center is dedicated to instilling critical knowledge and understanding of the core principles, institutions, and processes of liberal democracies, and to the advancement of genuine intellectual diversity on campus. Downs is also the former director of the University s Legal Studies Program and its Center for the Study of Law, Society, and Justice (2004-7). Also, He is the president (and former secretary) of the independent and non-partisan faculty group, the Committee for Academic Freedom and Rights, one of the nation s leading campus academic freedom and free speech groups (secretary , president since 2000). Downs scholarship has dealt with a wide range of issues dealing with such issues as freedom of speech; academic freedom; American politics; political thought; political and legal movements; citizenship; campus politics; domestic violence, psychiatry, and the criminal law; and the relationship among the military, the university, and civic education. His prize winning books include Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community and the First Amendment; The New Politics of Pornography; More than Victims: Battered Women, the Syndrome Society, and the Law; Cornell `69: Liberalism and the Crisis of the American University; Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus; and the recently published Arms and the University: Military Presence and the Civic Education on Non-Military Students (Cambridge University Press). In addition to winning honors for his research, Downs has also won numerous teaching awards, including the University Teaching Award. He has been interviewed countless times by media and organizations around the world, and has been an active defender of academic freedom on campus (where he serves as the president of the Committee for Academic Freedom and Rights, an independent group) and in the nation. In 2013, Downs received the national Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award for his defense of academic freedom and freedom of thought at UW-Madison and in higher education generally. He is also the faculty founder and advisor to the UW-Madison chapter of the Alexander Hamilton Society, an organization dedicated to thinking about American foreign relations and international politics and the national interest. In 2012, the Madison chapter received the Society's award as the "Best New Chapter" in the country.