Teach In: The Assault on Science, Humanities, and Human Rights

How Should We Respond Using a Justice Lens?

A part of the Coalition for Action in Higher Education and AAUP’s National Day of Action.

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Universities are in deep crisis. How should we respond? You’re invited to join us for a panel of speakers who will explore the current landscape in higher education, including:

• Katherine Franke, Columbia University Law Professor (retired) and activist, a leading scholar on law, sexuality, race, and religion drawing from feminist, queer, and critical race theory.
• Veena Dubal, General Counsel, AAUP; Professor of Law at University of California Irvine (will join remotely).
• Juan Gonzalez, award-winning journalist, Democracy Now!
• Janet Lin, Professor of Emergency Medicine, UIC College of Medicine; Affiliate Professor of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health.
• Linda Rae Murray, MD, world-renowned public health champion and previously served as chief medical officer for the Cook County Department of Public Health, and president of the American Public Health Association. She is a UIC graduate and teaches in the School of Public Health.
• Naomi Paik, Associate Professor of Global Asian Studies and Criminology, Law and Justice at UIC, a scholar of immigration, carcerality and justice, and a member UIC Sanctuary Campus for All and Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine UIC.
• Elizabeth Todd-Breland, Associate Professor of History at UIC, who works on racial and economic inequality and education policy.

Plus additional local and national speakers, followed by discussion and Q&A.

April 17
3:30–5:30 p.m.
UIC Forum, rooms D,E,F
725 W. Roosevelt Road
**Wheelchair accessible entrances and restrooms. For additional accessibility questions, please contact SjiChicago@gmail.com

Hosted by the UIC Social Justice Initiative; Department of Black Studies; Center for Urban Economic Development; Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change; Collaboratory for Health Justice; Criminology, Law, & Justice; Gender and Women’s Studies; Global Asian Studies; Global Middle East Studies Collective; Institute for Research on Race & Public Policy; Institute for the Humanities; Jane Addams Hull House-Museum; Latin American and Latino Studies.

A part of national actions: www.dayofactionforhighered.org

Additional event details here: https://sji.uic.edu/events/teach-in-the-assault-on-science-humanities-and-human-rights/