...Alan K. Manchester Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Freedom and the University: The Responsibility of the University for the Maintenance of Freedom in the American Way of Life . By Johnson Edgar N. Calkins Robert D. Rostow Eugene V. Lilienthal Joseph L. Jr...

... was and is that of freedom, of subjects released unto their own making. Choice, I argue, operates within this frame to demarcate cultures of constraint versus those of freedom, and challenges strict notions of safety and risk. Drawing on research in Australia and Hong Kong, it appears that within very different contexts...

...Frank Donoghue This essay questions the historical yoking together of the concepts of academic freedom and tenure, arguing that both concepts have been poorly and inconsistently defined since the AAUP's inaugural document, the “Declaration of Principles on Academic Tenure,” was published in 1915...

... that the propensity to allow professors from a range of departments to decide what constitutes good writing and the best ways to teach it violates the intentions on which academic freedom at their university resides. They provide examples of reviews of their program that fail to take into account the pedagogical...

...Samuel P. Nelson; Catherine Prendergast The commonplace justification of academic freedom, described in terms of professional norms and practices of the professoriate, often cites advancing the public interest in knowledge creation as a key basis for academic freedom. Yet the public's role remains...

...Cary Nelson Following a concise definition of academic freedom and a rejoinder to current conservative efforts to limit it by David Horowitz, the National Association of Scholars, and Stanley Fish, “The Fate of Academic Freedom” describes sixteen specific conditions emerging as major threats...

... . In particular, the exceptionalist mode functions to deny the violent displacement of indigenous peoples by settler colonialism. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Eric Cheyfitz The Corporate University, Academic Freedom, and American Exceptionalism ​In 1997, I gave an address...

...Bruce Robbins “Deadwood: Academic Freedom and Smart People ” offers a reading of the 2008 film Smart People as an allegory of what the humanities “do” as understood by the general public: the remembering of beloved but now distant or inaccessible things, such as the dead wife for whom...

...Jeffrey T. Nealon Within contemporary debates about the present and future of the university, academic freedom often functions in a Neoplatonic manner—which is to say, it functions as that eternal and unfettered form that guides the mundane material practices of academic life (most obviously...

...Evan Watkins The principles of academic freedom as articulated in centrally influential documents such as the 1940 AAUP “Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure” assume the concept of merit as basic. The protections and the responsibilities of academic freedom and tenure are granted...

... paradigm-shifting work has the potential to provide a critical opening for this discussion to take place. Like their husbands, fathers, and brothers, enslaved women who engaged the crisis of the Union as an opportunity to secure their freedom risked as much. The Emancipation Proclamation opened...

...Saba Mahmood; Peter G. Danchin © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Saba Mahmood and Peter G. Danchin Politics of Religious Freedom: Contested Genealogies...

...Nehal Bhuta In this article, Bhuta revisits the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights’ interpretation of religious freedom in the headscarf cases. He considers how recent historical work on the history of religious freedom and freedom of conscience opens up a new interpretation...

...Ian Hunter It is sometimes presumed that early modern religious conflict can be understood (and judged) on the basis of philosophical principles of religious freedom that display the irrationality of such conflict. Some derive these principles from Lockean and Kantian doctrines purporting to show...

... .” Christianity Today , March 1 . Danchin Peter G. 2002 . “ U.S. Unilateralism and the International Protection of Religious Freedom: The Multilateral Alternative .” Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 41 , no. 33 : 33 – 136 . Danchin Peter G. 2008 . “ Of Prophets and Proselytes...

.... A G A I N S T the D A Y Jonathan S. Parhusip The Making of Freedom and Common Forms of Struggle of Runaways in Taiwan W hen we decide to run away, we fight for ourselves. There will be no law, or people to protect us. . . . Becoming a runaway is like starting a new career. All that matters...

...Zeynep Gambetti This essay situates the struggle for academic freedom and university autonomy at Boğaziçi University within the broader framework of post-truth. Post-truth is defined as a disinvestment from long-established norms regulating what counts as true, without introducing new criteria...

...Frederick C. Staidum, Jr. Although the linear trajectories from enslavement to freedom of slave narratives and antislavery novels have been generally accepted, moments of pause and recursiveness at the very instantiation of the narrators’ or protagonists’ emancipation suggest a different, nonlinear...

... people suffer through indefinite detention or face an interest-bearing price of freedom: commercial bail bonds contracts, an industry worth more than $2 billion annually. Bail debt is held disproportionately by poor women of color who act as cosigners, bailing out the men in their family who are caged...

... . “ Of Prophets and Proselytes: Freedom of Religion and the Conflict of Rights in International Law .” Harvard International Law Journal 49 , no. 2 : 249 – 321 . Danchin Peter . 2011 . “ Islam in the Secular Nomos of the European Court of Human Rights .” Michigan Journal of International Law 32...