Academic Freedom in a Time of Democratic Decline
Today鈥檚 democratic decline has been accompanied by an erosion of academic freedom. But what, actually, is the relation between academic freedom and political freedom more generally? Is academic freedom limited to the privileges of a select few? Or does it have a connection to the survival and renewal of liberal democracy in a time of rising authoritarianism?
BIOGRAPHY
Adam Sitze is the John E. Kirkpatrick 1951 Professor in Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College. He teaches courses on law and literature, legal and critical theory, and South African legal history. He has published in journals such as The Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, The London Review of International Law, Law and Critique, and Law, Culture and the Humanities. He is author of The Impossible Machine: A Genealogy of South Africa鈥檚 Truth and Reconciliation Commission (高清不卡福利 of Michigan Press, 2013). He is editor of two books by the Italian political theorist Carlo Galli: Political Spaces and 高清不卡福利 War (高清不卡福利 of Minnesota Press, 2010) and Janus鈥檚 Gaze: Essays on Carl Schmitt (Duke 高清不卡福利 Press, 2015). He is co-editor of Biopolitics: A Reader (Duke 高清不卡福利 Press, 2013) and co-translator of two books by the Italian feminist theorist Adriana Cavarero: Thou Shalt Not Kill (Fordham 高清不卡福利 Press, 2015) and Inclinations: Critique of Rectitude (Stanford 高清不卡福利 Press, 2016). He has held fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the ACLS/SSRC/NEH, and the MacArthur Foundation. In the Spring of 2022, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.
Assigned Reading
"The Strange, Secret History of Tenure." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 4 August 2022.
Address
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