Category: Columns

California Scholars for Academic Freedom lay out recent history of assaults on universities regarding academic freedom, the right of free speech and dissent

California Scholars for Academic Freedom (CS4AF) a group of over 200 scholars at twenty California institutions of higher learning, urge a renewed and strong support by university administrators for academic freedom and the right to free speech and dissent in light of an alarming recent history of assaults on academic freedom.

Ghassan Hage’s letter responding to an invitation to give the keynote at the Anthropological Association of Israel conference and the president’s reply

I had initially asked the president of the Israeli Anthropological Association who invited me, Nir Avieli, if he wanted his invitation published. As I didn’t get an initial response i assumed he didn’t. But he has sent me his considered response to my reply. So here they are both for the records. As you can see both my response and Nir’s are polite and even cordial despite the differences, and if people want to comment, I’d rather if people keep the same tone of exchange.–Ghassan Hage