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The kick-off event of the Chicago Humanities Summit will open with a conversation about the state of speech at colleges and universities. University of Chicago President Robert Zimmer will open the day’s events with a brief overview of the path U of C has taken with regard to free speech on campus. Following Zimmer, Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed will moderate a panel discussion featuring Northwestern University Provost Jonathan Holloway (formerly Dean of the undergraduate Yale College), Professor Allison Stanger of Middlebury College, and Johns Hopkins Bioethics Masters Student Cameron Okeke, who has written passionately about speech and diversity on college campuses.

A bundle option for all three sessions of the 2017 Humanities Summit: Speech and Privilege, is available by clicking here.

Charter Humanists must RSVP to attend the Summit. To RSVP, email [email protected] or call (312) 980-8671.

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Suzanne Nossel, the Executive Director of PEN America, an international organization advocating for the rights of writers, and two-time Poet Laureate of the United States Natasha Tretheway will discuss the avenues available to writers and artists of all stripes as free expression, both here in the United States and abroad, faces retrenchment. CHF Associate Artistic Director Alison Cuddy will moderate this conversation about the prospects for free expression in our increasingly divided world.

A bundle option for all three sessions of the 2017 Humanities Summit: Speech and Privilege, is available by clicking here.

Charter Humanists must RSVP to attend the Summit. To RSVP, email [email protected] or call (312) 980-8671.

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Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO of the New American Foundation, and former Director of Policy Planning in the Obama Administration, and David Cole, the National Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, are each extremely well-positioned to discuss the current and future state of free speech in the public sphere, in both face-to-face and digital spaces. In a moderated conversation, Slaughter and Cole will survey current conflicts over speech, dissent, and liberty, and look ahead to what all of us can expect to face in the days to come. University of Chicago Law professor and constitutional scholar Geoff Stone will moderate.

A bundle option for all three sessions of the 2017 Humanities Summit: Speech and Privilege, is available by clicking here.

Charter Humanists must RSVP to attend the Summit. To RSVP, email [email protected] or call (312) 980-8671.