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Free Speech and Civil Discourse CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY 2017 CONFERENCE SEPTEMBER 27–28 CONFERENCE PROGRAM FREE SPEECH CIVIL DISCOURSE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY 2017 CONFERENCE The 2017 biennial conference of the Center for the Study of American Democracy is focused on the issues relating to free speech and civil discourse. THE RIGHT TO FREE AND CANDID SPEECH represents a critical element of liberal education and democratic self-government. Yet American political discourse and academia are often characterized by incivility, disrespect, intolerance, even hate. As the conference title suggests, the imperatives of free society and polite society are some- times in considerable tension. These tensions in turn contribute to competing results: an impetus for restrictions on speech, a culture of political correctness, or desire for a safe space in which to express one’s opinions. Political freedom requires that individuals be able to speak openly about controversial subjects, differences of opinion, and the quality of government and those standing for public office. At the same time, sustaining free government may presuppose certain quali- ties in its people, including the capacity for political discourse characterized by deliberation and civility. Liberal education in turn rests upon an ability to engage in discourse with some respect for unpopular or different perspectives. Both education and democracy may produce discom- fort and impoliteness. The process of recognizing the limits of one’s own knowledge or of one’s political opinions may not be a pleasant experience. How to balance and address these tensions is one of many questions to be addressed in this wide-ranging two day conference held here in Gambier, Ohio. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9 7:30 p.m. Opening Address: Inequality and America (Rosse Hall) WEDNESDAY,Douglas Holtz-EakinSEPTEMBER, former director 27 of the Congressional Budget Office; chief economic advisor to the McCain presidential campaign 4 P.M. CONFERENCE WELCOME Introduced by Sean Decatur, President of Kenyon College Tom Karako, director, Center for the Study of American Democracy (CSAD) THURSDAY,CANDOR, APRIL CRITICISM 10 AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF A FREE SOCIETY 9:15 a.m. EugenePanel: Volokh, Public UCLA Policy School and of LawInequality TeresaWilliam Bejan, Galston University, Brookings of Oxford Institution ShadiSuzy Hamid, Khimm Brookings, MSNBC Institution ModeratedRoss Eisenbrey by Nancy, Economic Powers, Policyassistant Institute director, CSAD Scott Winship, Manhattan Institute 5 P.M. PUBLICModerated RECEPTION by David Rowe, (Gund professor Gallery of Atrium) political science 7:3011:10 P.M. a.m. OPENINGInequality ADDRESS: of Opportunity FREE SPEECH (Rosse AND Hall) THE CONSTITUTION (Rosse Hall) JeffRobert Rosen, Putnam National, Harvard Constitution University Center IntroducedIntroduced by by Sean Max Decatur, Rappoport president ’14 of Kenyon College 1:15 p.m. Panel: Global Perspectives on Inequality THURSDAY,Branko SEPTEMBER Milanovic, City University 28 of New York Charles Horner, Hudson Institute 9:30 A.M. OPENBen White DISCOURSE ’94, Politico AND LIBERAL EDUCATION StanleyModerated Fish, by Yeshiva Jan Thomas, University associate provost and professor of sociology Allison Stanger, Middlebury College 2:40 p.m. Panel: Public Narratives about Inequality Moderated by Greg Lukianoff, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Ross Douthat, New York Times 11:10 A.M. ISJim FREE Tankersley SPEECH, Washington THE ENEMY Post OF CIVIL SOCIETY? NadineLizzie Strossen,O’Leary, formerMarketplace president of the American Civil Liberties Union ModeratedModerated by by Paul Jay Corrigan,Singer ’88, professor USA Today of economics 1:304:00 P.M. p.m. HATEPublic SPEECH Reception AND THE(Gund LIMITS Gallery OF Atrium) FREE EXPRESSION 7:30 p.m. UlrichInequality Baer, New and York the University Market (Rosse Hall) StephanieAustan Goolsbee Fryberg ’94,, University University of ofChicago’s Washington Booth School of Business; former chair of Johneconomic McWhorter, advisers Columbia to President University Obama ModeratedIntroduced by by Melanie Eleanor Marlowe, Ritchie ’14 Carnegie Mellon University 3 P.M.FRIDAY, APRILIS THE ACADEMY11 TOO POLITICALLY CORRECT? 9:00 a.m. LauraCapitalism Kipnis, Northwestern and the Market University Derald Wing Sue, Columbia University Amity Shlaes, Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation Moderated by H. Abbie Erler, associate professor of political science John Tomasi, Brown University 4:30 P.M. PUBLICModerated RECEPTION by Sheryl Hemkin, (Gund associateGallery Atrium) professor of chemistry 7:1510:30 P.M. a.m. CIVILHealth DISCOURSE Care and AND Inequality AMERICA (Rosse Hall) HowardGreg Moody Dean,, formerDirector Governor of Health of Transformation,Vermont State of Ohio StevenIntroduced Pinker, by Harvard Devon Beeny University ’15 11:30 a.m. HeatherRising Mac Inequality: Donald, Manhattan Where doInstitute we go from here? ModeratedNeera Tanden by Tom, President, Karako, director,Center for CSAD American Progress IntroductionIntroduced byby JonJoe Klesner,Green ’14 provost of Kenyon College UnlessAll eventsotherwise are locatednoted, allin theevents Community will be held Foundation in the Gund Theater Gallery in CommunityGund Gallery Foundation unless otherwise Theater. noted. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 CANDOR, CRITICISM AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF A FREE SOCIETY Moderated by Nancy Powers, assistant director, CSAD EUGENE VOLOKH Eugene Volokh teaches free speech law, tort law, religious freedom law, church-state relations law and a First Amendment amicus brief clinic at UCLA School of Law. Before joining UCLA, he clerked for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge Alex Kozinski on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Volokh authored the textbooks The First Amendment and Related Statutes (6th ed. 2016) and Academic Legal Writing (5th ed. 2016). He founded The Volokh Conspiracy, a blog now hosted by the Washington Post that gets about 30,000 visits per weekday. TERESA BEJAN Teresa M. Bejan is an associate professor of political theory at the University of Oxford. Her research brings early modern English and American political thought to bear on contemporary questions. Her first book, Mere Civility: Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration (Harvard University Press, 2017) examines contemporary calls for civility in light of seventeenth-century debates about religious toleration. She has published articles in The Journal of Politics, History of Political Thought, Review of Politics and History of European Ideas. In 2015 she was elected as the final Balzan-Skinner Fellow in Modern Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. SHADI HAMID Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing editor at the Atlantic. He is author of Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World and co-editor of Rethinking Political Islam. His first book, Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East, was named a Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2014. Hamid served as director of research at the Brookings Doha Center until January 2014. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy and The National Interest. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 OPENING ADDRESS: FREE SPEECH AND THE CONSTITUTION GEORGE L. OHRSTROM JR. LECTURESHIP ON DEMOCRACY With an introduction by Sean Decatur, president of Kenyon College JEFF ROSEN Jeff Rosen is the president and chief executive officer of the National Constitution Center, the only institution in America chartered by Congress to disseminate information about the United States Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Rosen is also a professor at the George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor for the Atlantic. His essays and commentaries have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, on National Public Radio and in The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer. The Chicago Tribune named him one of the 10 best magazine journalists in America. He received the 2012 Golden Pen Award from the Legal Writing Institute for his “extraordinary contribution to the cause of better legal writing.” Rosen is the author of “Louis Brandeis: American Prophet,” “The Supreme Court: The Person- alities and Rivalries that Defined America,” “The Most Democratic Branch: How the Courts Serve America,” “The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age” and “The Un- wanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America.” He is co-editor of “Constitution 3.0: Freedom and Technological Change.” THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 PANEL DISCUSSION: OPEN DISCOURSE AND LIBERAL EDUCATION Moderated by Greg Lukianoff, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education STANLEY FISH Stanley Fish is the Floersheimer Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Yeshiva University’s School of Law. He began his academic career at the University of California, then taught as the Kenan Professor of English and Humanities at Johns Hopkins University from 1974 to 1985. Fish was a professor of English and a professor of law at Duke and then served as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sci- ences at the University of Illinois from 1999 to 2004. Fish is a prolific author of more than 200 scholarly books and articles and contributes to The Opinionator blog for the New York Times. ALLISON STANGER Allison Stanger is the Russell Leng ’60 Professor of International Politics and Economics and found- ing director
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