Censoring Palestine at the University
Friday, Mar 06, 2015 - Friday, Mar 06, 2015 | 9:00 am - 7:00 pm
100 Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley
Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at UC Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender
presents
Censoring Palestine at the University: Free Speech and Academic Freedom at a Crossroads
Friday, March 6th, 2015
9:00AM– 9:30 PM
100 Boalt Hall School of Law
University of California, Berkeley
9:15 AM Conference Opening and Welcome
Dr. Hatem Bazian
Panel One
9:30AM – 11:15PM
Representing Palestine at the University: Legal Obstacles to Free Speech on Palestine/Israel
Moderator and Participant: Liz Jackson, Staff Attorney at Palestine Solidarity Legal Support
Liz Jackson, Staff Attorney at Palestine Solidarity Legal Support
New McCarthyism: Trends in Legal Repression of Palestine Speech on U.S. Campuses
Yaman Salahi, Staff Attorney at Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus
The Feds as Speech Police? Mis-use of the Civil Rights Act and the Higher Education Act to Manage Palestine at the University
Taliah Mirmalek, Students for Justice, UC Berkeley
The Chilling Effect of Legal Repression on Student Speech: UC Berkeley Case Study
Panel Two
11:30AM– 1:15PM
Typology of Palestine’s Censorship at the Academy
Moderator: Dr. Khalid Kadir, Department of City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley
Hilary Aked, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Bath, UK
A Typology of Censorship Forces in UK universities’
Prof. Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco
“Balancing” Moderates with Extremists: How Academic Administrators Demand Inclusion of Supporters of Occupation
Lisa Rofel, Director, Center for Emerging World, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Academic Harassment of Speech about the Palestine/Israel Conflict: Neoliberalism, Civility Codes and the Limits to Academic Freedom
Panel Three
2:15PM – 4:00PM
Academic Discourses on Palestine: Structured Limits
Moderator: Dr. Munir Jiwa, Director of GTU’s Center for Islamic Studies
Prof. Lara Deeb, Chair of Anthropology at Scripps College
Prof. Jessica Winegar, Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University.
Fears of Attacks on Academic Freedom: Anthropologists Navigate Israel/Palestine
Prof. Deborah A. Gordon, Chair and Associate Professor, Center for Women’s Studies and Religion Department, Wichita State University
Honor Diaries: Islamophobia in Zionism’s Retort to Palestine on Campus
Panel 4
4:30 – 6:30PM
Censoring Palestine at the University: Free Speech and Academic Freedom at a Crossroads
Moderator: Dr. Colleen Keyes, Vice President of Academic Affairs, Zaytuna College
Prof. Richard Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University
Censoring Palestine at the University: Free Speech and Academic Freedom at a Crossroads
Prof. Rabab Abdulhadi, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies/Race and Resistance Studies
Resisting the New McCarthyism: Campus Activism and Zionist Backlash at San Francisco State University
Dr. Hatem Bazian, Near Eastern and Asian American Studies Departments at UC Berkeley, Professor and Co-Founder of Zaytuna College
Institutional Gate Keepers and Seamless Censorship
Sponsored by: Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, Near Eastern Studies Department, Center for Race and Gender, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, American Muslims for Palestine-SF Bay Area Chapter, Council on American Islamic Relations-SF Bay Area, Jewish Voice for Peace-Bay Area Chapter, Students for Justice in Palestine-Berkeley, Muslim Students Association.