University of Wisconsin–Madison

Campus Speech, Antisemitism and Islamophobia

Event Banner: Campus Speech, Antisemitism and Islamophobia, April 21, 2025
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Pyle Center, Wisconsin Idea Lounge

Event Banner: Campus Speech, Antisemitism and Islamophobia, April 21, 2025

Speakers:

Peter Beinart: Professor of Journalism and Political Science, Newmark School of Journalism, CUNY. Fellow, Foundation for Middle East Peace
Sahar Aziz: Distinguished Professor of Law, and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar, Rutgers Law School

Moderator: 

Asifa Quraishi-Landes: Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Universities are now at the center of societal debates about antisemitism, Islamophobia, and freedom of expression. Increasingly, voicing support for Palestinians is cast as antisemitism or as a form of support for terrorism. This panel examines the controversy from a critical perspective. What are the limits of pro-Palestinian speech? What do the constraints on pro-Palestine speech on campus portend for intellectual inquiry and research more generally?

Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.

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Sponsored by the Human Rights Program. Cosponsored by the Middle East Studies Program, the Center for Law, Society and Justice, the Institute for Regional and International studies, the Havens Wright Center for Social Justice, the English Department, the Center for Interfaith Dialogue, the Center for Humanities, the Geography Department and the Wisconsin Institute for Citizenship and Civil Dialogue.