Academic Repression release parties planned
The editors of AK’s brand-new Academic Repression: Reflections from the Academic Industrial Complex have started promoting this important new critique of modern-era McCarthyism on our university campuses, and are calling for all folks concerned with the preservation of the freedom to speak and think as an autonomous individual in higher education to organize events around the book. If you’re on the East Coast, you might want to check out one of these two events organized by editor Anthony Nocella. Or, if you’re interested in organizing your own release events for Academic Repression, get in contact with the editors here: http://www.myspace.com/academicrepression. You’ll find a full list of contributors to the book on the MySpace page, plus info on other events coming up in the next few weeks! Be sure to check it out!
“This courageous and chilling book reminds us that the Academy is always a context for intellectual exchange and political struggle. Don’t miss it!” –Cornel West, Princeton University
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Book Release Party: Academic Repression: Reflections on the Academic Industrial Complex
Thursday, March 4, 7-8:30 p.m. Grewen Auditorium, Grewen Hall, Le Moyne College, NY
Academic Repression: Reflections on the Academic Industrial Complex addresses the ways in which political elites, the mass media, and the education system establish and police the parameters of acceptable discourse. Throughout this anthology, prominent academics address the numerous debates that have occurred over free speech, culture wars and academic freedom.
Contributors to the book who will speak at the event include: Anthony J. Nocella, II of Le Moyne College, Peter Castro, Ph.D., Micere Githae Mugo, Ph.D., Mark Rupert, Ph.D., and Liat Ben-Moshe of Syracuse University, and Caroline Kaltefleiter, Ph.D. of the State University of New York at Cortland. Following the event, copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing. This event is free and open to the public.
It is sponsored by the Center for Urban and Regional Applied Research, Department of Anthropology, Criminology and Sociology, and the Office of Service Learning. For more information, call (315)657-2911.
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Book Talk: Academic Repression: Reflections on the Academic Industrial Complex
Saturday March 6th 7:00PM
with co-editor Anthony J. Nocella, II
@ Wooden Shoe Books
704 South Street
Philadelphia PA 19147
215-413-0999
sabot@woodenshoebooks.com
www.woodenshoebooks.com
Since 9/11, the Bush administration has pressured universities to hand over faculty, staff, and student work to be flagged for potential threats. Numerous books have addressed the question of academic freedom over the years; this collection asks whether the concept of academic freedom still exists at all in the American university system. It addresses not only overt attacks on critical thinking, but also–following trends unfolding for decades–engages the broad socioeconomic determinants of academic culture.
This edited anthology brings together prominent academics writing hard-hitting essays on free speech, culture wars, and academic freedom in a post-9/11 era. It’s a powerful response to attacks on critical thinking in our universities by well-respected scholars and academics, including Joy James, Henry Giroux, Michael Parenti, Howard Zinn, Robert Jensen, Ward Churchill, and many more..
“Essential reading for anyone concerned about the stifling of dissent and free expression in academia and beyond.”–Uri Gordon, author of Anarchy Alive!
Anthony J. Nocella, II, author, activist, education, is a professor in Sociology and Criminology at SUNY Cortland and Le Moyne College. He also is a life skills teacher at Hillbrook Youth Detention Center promoting nonviolence and group-building skills. He is a co-founder of more than fifteen active social/political organizations, four active scholarly journals, is board member of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), has published more than twenty-five scholarly articles and is working on his eleventh book, Global Industrial Complex (Lexington Books, coming soon). His other books include A Peacemaker’s Guide for Building Peace with a Revolutionary Group (PARC, 2004), co-editor of Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals (Lantern Books, 2004); and co-editor of Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth (AK Press, 2006). www.anthonynocella.org