Keynote: Academic Freedom & Cancel Culture

Session Submission Type: Plenary Session

Abstract

This keynote session will focus on the contemporary debate over academic freedom and "cancel culture." This includes both informal social pressures and attempts by legislators, donors, civil society groups, and educational administrators to restrict course content and curriculum, limit DEI initiatives and freedom of expression, and regulate campus protests, hate speech, and disruptive conduct.

Sub Unit

• General Paper and Panel Submissions

Chair

• Pippa Norris Harvard University

Presenters

• Sharon Denise Austin University of Florida

• Kenneth R. Mayer University of Wisconsin, Madison

• Daniel A. Smith University of Florida