More on the AUT council vote on the Israeli-university boycott
I’ve joined the ENGAGE blog’s list of academics opposed to the AUT council vote attempting to impose an academic boycott on two Israeli institutions. Much cool stuff over there on efforts to overturn the hasty motion as well as solid explanations of why an academic boycott makes no sense. Go there. Read.
Trouble at Southern Illinois University
On April 11, the student newspaper for Southern Illinois University, the Daily Egyptian, printed a letter from six history faculty condemning one reading distributed by colleague Jonathan Bean, a source that Bean had taken from David Horowitz’s Front Page online rag (which has no real rag content, so maybe we need to find a different […]
Bravo, Graham
Graham Larkin’s column today in Inside Higher Ed is just a wonderfully incisive piece about David Horowitz with a whole lot of documentation in the links. His column uses the internet powerfully and is highly recommended.
Boycott of Israeli universities
The Association of University Teachers (in England) voted on Friday to boycott Haifa University and the Bar-Ilan University, both Israeli institutions. The Crooked Timber entry on the subject reflects what should be a clear response from academics: this is a violation of academic freedom. Period. Three years ago, my campus chapter of the United Faculty […]
Paulo Freire and the chic cultural capital of academe
By Sherman Dorn on April 28, 2005
I’m on the committee of a graduate student just getting into Paulo Freire’s work, and that brings back memories. I remember reading Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970) when I was sixteen, and it was an early, “Oh, I can read that” experience.
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