Divergent definitions of “racism,” “injustice” and related terms – and the importance of those differences – became major themes of a panel discussion this week at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.
The Monday afternoon program kicked off the university’s second annual Free Speech Week, which featured six panel discussions and wound up on Thursday.
UW-Stout’s Free Speech Week features speaker whose challenge to ‘Day of Absence’ produced protest ‘firestorm’
A former faculty member at Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, whose challenge of the school’s day of reverse racial segregation drew a firestorm of protests that forced his classes off campus and closed the school for three days, will speak Monday (Oct. 15) during University of Wisconsin-Stout’s Free Speech Week.
His appearance will headline the first of six panel discussions on various aspects of freedom of speech. Chancellor Bob Meyer will moderate the “Free Speech and Anti-Orthodoxy” discussion. scheduled from 4 to 5:30 p.m.
BEHIND THE POST: Of Free Speech Week, the Koch Brothers and using labels as the easy way out
By David Gordon, Associate Editor and Board Chair Writing the current “Editor’s Pick” article on Free Speech Week events at UW-Stout raised a number of questions about what to include and what to emphasize. Most arose because the UW-Stout’s Center for the Study of Institutions and Innovation (CSII), which is sponsoring those events, is funded […]
Free Speech Week at UW-Stout continues today with final panel discussion – funding comes from Koch Foundation
By David Gordon, Associate Editor Free Speech Week events at the University of Wisconsin-Stout will continue this evening (Oct. 19) with a panel discussion presenting “Three Perspectives on Confederate Monuments, Flags and Symbolism.” This will be the final panel discussion on the week’s schedule. It will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Micheels 290. […]