Davis Markert Nickerson Academic Freedom Lecture

  1. November 15, 2024

    Speaker highlights risks to extramural speech protections

    Recent measures to impede campus protests around the country are a threat to academic freedom and extramural speech, Judith Butler said in the Davis, Markert, and Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom.

  2. November 4, 2024

    Academic freedom lecture to address extramural speech

    Judith Butler, a philosopher and gender studies scholar, will deliver the Faculty Senate’s 34th annual Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom.

  3. November 12, 2023

    Academic freedom lecturer addresses censorship threats

    Jonathan Friedman of PEN America highlighted the impact on higher education of increased legislation censoring the teaching of race, gender and sexuality in public schools.

  4. October 30, 2023

    Academic Freedom Lecture to feature free‑expression advocate

    Free-expression advocate Jonathan Friedman will give the keynote address at the Faculty Senate’s Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom.

  5. February 7, 2023

    Academic freedom lecturer addresses teaching of racial history

    New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie delivered the 32nd annual Davis, Markert, and Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom with a talk titled “Revisiting Du Bois and ‘The Propaganda of History.’”

  6. January 30, 2023

    Academic Freedom Lecture to feature N.Y. Times columnist

    Jamelle Bouie, a columnist for The New York Times, will give the keynote address at the Faculty Senate’s 32nd annual Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom.

  7. January 12, 2023

    Faculty Perspective: Remembering H. Chandler Davis

    The Senate Assembly’s Davis, Markert, Nickerson Academic Freedom Lecture Committee looks back on the life, career and legacy of former U-M faculty member H. Chandler Davis, who paid a price for his principles in the McCarthy era.

  8. March 14, 2022

    Palestinian discourse cited as example of free-speech erosion

    Censorship of discourse about Palestine on college campuses and elsewhere was the topic at U-M’s Davis, Markert, and Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom.

  9. March 7, 2022

    Academic Freedom Lecture to focus on Palestinian discourse

    Dima Khalidi, director of Chicago-based Palestine Legal, will give the 31st annual Davis, Markert, and Nickerson Academic Freedom Lecture March 14 in Forum Hall in Palmer Commons.

  10. February 17, 2021

    Panelists at lecture explore challenges to academic freedom

    Three scholars dedicated to defending free academic inquiry and instruction spoke about academic freedom at home and abroad during the 30th annual Davis, Markert, and Nickerson Academic Freedom Lecture.