Academic Freedom

Multiple CFPs for MLA Palestine Panels

Re-Posted from MLA Members for Justice in Palestine: MLA 2017 Call for Papers, Panels and Palestine Looking for MLA 2017 panels to submit Palestine-related papers? Below is a selection of CFPs on topics that might include papers related to Palestine, BDS, settler colonialism, apartheid, dispossession, transnational justice, orientalism, etc. Deadlines for submission of paper abstracts are…
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New Group: MLA Members for Justice in Palestine

If you are a member of MLA, please visit the new MLA Commons website, register, and join the new Group MLA Members for Justice in Palestine. If you are not a member of MLA, you can also follow develops by joining the MLA Members for Justice in Palestine Facebook group.  MLA Members for Justice in…
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AASA Letter to Chancellor Wise on Reinstatement of Dr. Steve Salaita

August 17, 2014 Office of the Chancellor Swanlund Administration Building 601 E. John Street Champaign, IL 61820 Dear Chancellor Wise,   As members of the Arab American Studies Association (AASA), we write to express our deep concern about the termination of Professor Steven Salaita’s appointment at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).   We write…
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