Freedom of Speech & Assembly After Charlottesville. Brooklyn Public Library.

  Freedom of Speech & Assembly After Charlottesville is a series of conversations with writers, academics, and legal experts on First Amendment rights. These sessions will be moderated by Dr. Norman Finkelstein and will be free to the public. This week we are joined by {}.

 Norman Finkelstein received his doctorate in political theory in 1988 from the Princeton University Politics Department. He taught for two decades in the CUNY system, NYU and DePaul University (in Chicago). He has lectured on a broad range of subjects, and has written ten books that have been translated into more than 50 foreign editions. Finkelstein’s main fields of research and teaching are political theory, international law, and the Israel-Palestine conflict.

  Mon, Oct 16 2017  7:00 pm – 8:45 pm  Central Library, Trustees’ Room

  Joan W. Scott is Professor Emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. She is a historian, known especially for her work on gender. Her new book is Sex and Secularism. A member of the American Association of University Professors, she has long served on its Committee for Academic Freedom and Tenure.

  Mon, Oct 30 2017  7:00 pm – 8:45 pm  Central Library, Trustees’ Room

  Todd Gitlin, is Professor of Journalism and Sociology. Chair, Ph. D. Program in Communications, Columbia University. He holds degrees from Harvard University (mathematics), the University of Michigan (political science), and the University of California, Berkeley (sociology). He was the third president of Students for a Democratic Society, in 1963-64, and coordinator of the SDS Peace Research and Education Project in 1964-65, during which time he helped organize the first national demonstration against the Vietnam War and the first American demonstrations against corporate aid to the apartheid regime in South Africa. During 1968-69, he was an editor and writer for the San Francisco Express Times, and through 1970 wrote widely for the underground press. In 2003-06, he was a member of the Board of Directors of Greenpeace USA. He has contributed to many books and published widely in general periodicals and scholarly journals. He is a columnist for Tablet (tabletmag.com), a media commentator at BillMoyers.com, and a member of the editorial board of Dissent. Previously, he was a columnist at the New York Observer and the San Francisco Examiner, and a regular op-ed contributor to the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Newsday. His poems have appeared in The New York Review of Books, Yale Review, The New Republic, and Raritan. He lectures frequently on culture and politics in the United States and abroad.

  Thu, Nov 2 2017  7:00 pm – 8:45 pm  Central Library, Trustees’ Room

  Nadine Strossen, John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law at New York Law School, has written, taught, and advocated extensively on constitutional law and civil liberties issues, including through frequent media interviews. From 1991 through 2008, she was President of the American Civil Liberties Union, and she currently serves on the ACLU’s National Advisory Council, as well as the advisory Boards of EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center), FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education), and Heterodox Academy. Strossen has also held leadership positions in other human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch. The National Law Journal has named Strossen one of America’s “100 Most Influential Lawyers,” and several other national publications have named her one of the country’s most influential women. When Strossen stepped down as ACLU President, three Supreme Court Justices (Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia, and David Souter) participated in her farewell/tribute luncheon.

  Mon, Nov 13 2017  7:00 pm – 8:45 pm  Central Library, Brooklyn Collection

  Nico Perrino is director of communications for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a national, nonprofit organization devoted to defending and sustaining civil liberties in higher education. He is also the host of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast.