Speech on Campus: Perspectives, Implications and Ethics
Wayne State University students, faculty, and staff are invited to an interdisciplinary symposium on student, faculty, and university interests in free and civil discourse on campus—and how to bridge those interests when they seemingly conflict. RSVP by February 26.
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Student Center Ballroom - 265
Wayne State University
| Time | Agenda |
|---|---|
| 9:15 - 9:30 a.m. | Welcome and introduction Dean Richard Bierschbach Wayne State University Law School |
| 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. | Panel I: “Student, Faculty, and Institutional Perspectives” |
| 11:30 - 11:55 a.m. | Break for buffet line |
| 11:55 a.m. - noon | Presidential welcome and introduction of lunch discussion President Kimberly Andrews Espy, Ph.D. |
| Noon - 1:30 p.m. | Lunch and moderated discussion |
| 1:30 - 1:45 p.m. | Break |
| 1:45 - 3:30 p.m. | Panel II: “Bridging Interests, Perspectives, and Emotions” |
| 3:30 - 3:45 p.m. | Closing and introduction to upcoming year of dialogue events |
Welcome and introduction
Dean Richard Bierschbach
Wayne State University Law School
Panel I: Student, Faculty, and Institutional Perspectives
This panel considers the varying educational, academic freedom and university interests implicated by upsetting or hateful student, faculty, and third-party speech, including online.
Panelists
Mark Satta
Moderator
Wayne State University Law School
Department of Philosophy
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
University of New Orleans
Historian and author of Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars (2023).
Keith Whittington
Princeton University
Political theorist and author of Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech (2018)
Jennifer Ruth
Portland State University
Critical theorist, co-author of the Academe blog and co-author of It’s Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom (2022)
Denise Taliaferro Baszile
Wayne State University College of Education, Dean
Curriculum and cultural studies scholar and co-editor of Race, Gender, and Curriculum Theorizing (2016) and Curriculum Theorizing in Color and Curves (2020).
Lunch and moderated conversation
A university president and a law school dean will reflect on their years of institutional leadership, including lessons learned in working to create cultures of productive dialogue between groups and people with sometimes fundamentally different ideologies.
Eduardo Peñalver
Panel II: Bridging Interests, Perspectives, and Emotions
This panel considers research and methodological approaches to the critical issue of moving past, and even repairing, speech divides.
Panelists
Dr. Donyale Padgett
Moderator
Professor of Communication and Chief Diversity Officer, Wayne State University
Rachel Wahl
University of Virginia,
education scholar researching deliberation, dialogue and democracy in university communities and beyond.
Mary Kate Cary
University of Virginia,
politics fellow and former White House speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush.
Fred Duong
University of Toronto,
social and personality psychologist studying empathy and polarization interventions.