Free Speech on Campus: Keynote
Monday, October 26, 2020
Passcode: ykbN%M@5
11 am - 12 pm
This talk is for students, staff and faculty. It will explore the relationship between teaching, learning, and work on campus, and free expression online. The keynote will focus on both public posts in the virtual classroom and on campus, and private online posts not related to Skidmore. Sigal will explore recent cases and repercussions and discuss important guidance to help us think about the online domain in classes, on campus and beyond. This session is open to all members of the community. RSVP if you want a copy of Sigal’s book, with a note from the author.
Sigal Ben-Porath is professor of Education, with secondary appointments in Philosophy
and Political Science, at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2020-21 she is a fellow
at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. She received her doctorate
in political philosophy from Tel-Aviv university in 2000, after which she joined Princeton
University's Center for Human Values as a post-doctoral fellow. Her areas of research
include democratic theory, education policy at the K-12 and higher education levels,
and educational ethics. She recently published the books Free Speech on Campus (Penn
Press, 2017) and Making Up Our Mind (with Michael Johanek, University of Chicago Press,
2019). Her previous books include Citizenship under Fire: Democratic Education in
Times of Conflict (2006) and Tough Choices (2010), both from Princeton University
Press. She serves on the board of the Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy,
as well as the Teachers Institute of Philadelphia. She chaired Penn's Committee on
Open Expression 2015-2019. In recent years she has offered guidance to many campuses
on policy development and responses to controversies surrounding speech.