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Academic Freedom on the Brink: Reflections from a Human Rights Perspective
Thursday, April 24
6:15 - 7:30 p.m.
Social Sciences Research Building (1126 E. 59th St)
Tea Room

In the early 2000s, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, currently the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing and professor of law and development at MIT) argued that international human rights law could help protect research, teaching, and learning at American universities against post-9/11 paranoia about “suspect” or “dangerous” ideas, especially those held by academics who were not citizens.

 In recent years, multiple advanced human rights practitioners have followed Rajagopal’s lead, paying increasing attention to the best way to define and defend academic freedom (a development that was summarized in a recent Pozen Report). Today, with American academic freedom in a deepening crisis, his suggestions from over two decades ago feel prescient.

 In conversation with Pozen Visiting Professor Julia Hall, Rajagopal will revisit his original argument, discuss academic freedom-related developments in human rights spaces and beyond, and suggest possible paths forward for universities in the face of current threats.

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