Don't miss the Annual Humanities Institute Spring Symposium. This year's event will take place on Tuesday, April 29th, beginning at 1:00pm.

This year, Dr. Jennifer Ruth will give the Keynote Lecture, "Institutional Neutrality, Title VI, and the End of Academic Freedom?" at 4:30pm in Broyhill Auditorium in Farrell Hall.

Symposium events are being held in Farrell Hall so that faculty will also have the opportunity to attend the Center for Teaching and Learning's Teacher-Scholar Forum Featuring James D. Lang that day (click here for event schedule and to register).

Jennifer Ruth is Professor in the School of Film at Portland State University. She writes extensively about academic freedom and higher education in outlets such as the Chronicle of Higher Education and in books such as It’s Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom (2022), co-authored with Michael Bérubé, and The Right to Learn: Resisting the Right-Wing Attack on Academic Freedom (2023), co-edited with Ellen Schrecker and Valerie Johnson. She is the director, with Jan Haaken, of the documentary The Palestine Exception: What’s at Stake in the Campus Protests (2024). She is a longtime member of national AAUP’s Committee A for academic freedom, a contributing editor to the Academe blog, and served two years as the faculty editor of The Journal of Academic Freedom.

Here is the symposium schedule:

1:00pm-2:00pm: 2024 Summer Writing Grant Recipient Lunch (The Colloquium, Farrell Hall) Invitation Only

2:30pm-4:00pm: 2024-2025 Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar / Faculty Seminar Workshop Round Table (The Colloquium, Farrell Hall)

4:30pm: Keynote Lecture by Dr. Jennifer Ruth (Broyhill Auditorium, Farrell Hall)

Combined Closing Reception with CAT's Teacher-Scholar Forum to immediately follow keynote

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE SYMPOSIUM

Please contact Aimee Mepham, HI Associate Director, with questions at mephamam@wfu.edu.