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Â鶹´«Ã½IOS Speaker in Philadelphia Thursday
Tomorrow, January 19, Â鶹´«Ã½IOS Vice President of Programs Adam Kissel will lead a hosted by the . Adam, a Harvard alumnus, will discuss "Harvard's Tradition of Oppressing Controversial Speech," including several recent cases:
- In 2011, Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to fire a professor of economics after he published a controversial op-ed in India.
- Last fall, the dean of Harvard College instituted a Freshman Pledge stating that "kindness" was "on a par with intellectual attainment" at Harvard, and pressured students to publicly pledge to such official Harvard College values.
- In 2010, the dean of the law school asserted that as a "social justice" law school, HLS ruled certain ideas automatically out of bounds.
The dinner will begin at 6:45 pm at Aqua, a Malaysian-Thai restaurant located at 705 Chestnut Street. Tickets are $35 for members and $40 for non-members, and can be purchased .
To request a Â鶹´«Ã½IOS speaker to visit your campus, check out our Speakers Bureau page or email me at jaclyn@thefire.org.
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