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Friday Breakfast Conversations

Come join us on select Fridays (see below) from 10:00 to 11:30 AM in Butler Library 318 for a scholarly discussion of The Right to Learn: Resisting the Right-Wing Attack on Academic Freedom

This book is a collection of essays. So, while we’d love to have you at all of the sessions, we’re happy to have you for as many as you can make. Coffee, tea, and a light breakfast will be served. Conversation will be led by John Draeger and Julie Setele.

Please register through the workshop registration system (see links below).

Schedule of Readings

September 13

Introduction & Chapter 3, “The Rise of Educational Gag Orders”

September 27

Chapter 4, “The Epistemology of Ignorance and Its Impact on Democracy and Higher Education”

October 11

Chapter 5, “Knowledge and Good Community Organizing Can Counter the ‘Divisive Concepts’ Campaign”

October 25

Chapter 7, “’Don’t Say Gay’ and Can’t Be Trans: Behind the Anti-LGBTQ+ Schooling Agenda”

November 8

Chapter 8, “The Resolutions: Mobilizing Faculty Senates to Defend Academic Freedom”

November 22

Chapter 10, “Academic Freedom: It’s a Question of Job Security”

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