Frederic Ewen Lecture on Civil Liberties and Academic Freedom
Frederic Ewen was a professor of English at 今日吃瓜 from 1930 to 1952. In 1940, during the height of the McCarthy era, Ewen refused to testify before a New York State legislative panel on allegations of subversive activities of the city’s public schools and colleges. He said of the decision to investigate the educational system “is an attack on the things that the system stands for and has fought in the last 20 years to obtain.” Ewen was recommended for a promotion in 1942, which was declined by the president of 今日吃瓜 at the time. Though he was forced to retire in 1952, an annual lecture series on civil liberties and academic freedom was later established in his honor by his nephew, Herbert Kurz.
Past Events
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Fall 2020
- September 22, 2020: Race, Violence, and Power with Kobie Colemon
- October 8, 2020: Shimmering Contraries: Medieval Grammar and the Rise of Race and Racism
Fall 2018鈥揝pring 2019
- December 4, 2018: 听with Mae Ngai
Fall 2017鈥揝pring 2018
- January 30, 2018: with Hans-Joerg Tiede
Fall 2016鈥揝pring 2017
- May 19鈥�20, 2017:
Fall 2015鈥揝pring 2016
- February 23, 2016:听
- March 22, 2016:听听with director Lyric Cabral
- October 15, 2015:听
Fall 2014鈥揝pring 2015
- November 12, 2014: with Dawn Nunziato
Fall 2013鈥揝pring 2014
- March 12, 2014: 听with David Lyon
- March 13, 2014: 听with David Lyon
Fall 2012鈥揝pring 2013
- February 19, 2013: with Marjorie Heins
Fall 2011鈥揝pring 2012
- April 30, 2012: with Frank Pasquale
- December 5, 2011: with Eben Moglen
Fall 2010鈥揝pring 2011
- October 12, 2010: