Beyond Free Speech and Safe Space: Reimagining Open Expression, Inclusion and Argument.
In this moment of heightened reactiveness in public discourses and on college campuses about who is permitted to speak and about what topics, it is difficult to create spaces for nuanced discussion. Who decides what is permissible speech? What is at stake when voices are silenced or speakers are subject to social media surveillance? Working from the premises that public engagement is by definition neither truly free nor truly safe, Beyond Free Speech and Safe Space is devoted to exploring the practices and interpretive possibilities that are typically foreclosed when expression is framed as a matter of either “free speech” or “safe space."
April 11, 2019
April 8, 2019
March 19, 2019
Sponsored by: Alice Paul Center Working Group Grant
March 18, 2019
February 5, 2019
February 4, 2019
Sponsored by: Alice Paul Center Working Group Grant
November 15, 2018
Sponsored by: an Alice Paul Center Working Group Grant. Co-sponsored by Penn English, School of Social Police and Practice, Graduate School of Education
November 7, 2018
October 29, 2018
Sponsored by: an Alice Paul Center Working Group Grant. Co-sponsored by Penn English, School of Social Police and Practice, Graduate School of Education
October 10, 2018
The Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies