Andrew Ross, Social and Cultural Analysis, and American Studies, New York University (via video-conference) Andrew Ross is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU, and author or editor of more than twenty books, including Creditocracy and the Right to Debt Refusal, Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City, and Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times. He is president of the NYU chapter of the AAUP.

Roy Campbell, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Professor of Computer Science, Roy Campbell has taught at UIUC since 1976.  He has served as Chair and Vice-Chair of the Senate Executive Committee, Chair of Senate IT, and member of the University Senates Conference, GUP, and SEC.  Roy Campbell is an ECE Department Affiliate, an IEEE Fellow, Director of the NSA designated University of Illinois Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, and Director of the Air Force Assured Cloud Computing Center of Academic Excellence (funded by AFRL and AFSOL.) He serves on his department’s Promotion and Tenure Committee and Recruiting Committee and the College of Engineering Grainger Engineering Breakthroughs Initiative, and has served on the Search Committees for the President of the University, Chief Information Officer, Director of CITES, Security Director of CITES, GISLIS and ECE Department Head, Engineering Dean as well as the Chair Engineering College Advisory Committee on Endowed Appointments.

Susan G. Davis, Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Susan G. Davis has taught at UIUC since 2001 as Professor of Communication and Library and Information Science.  She holds a Phd from the University of Pennsylvania, and has written and taught extensively on the history of public culture, vernacular culture and oral traditions.  She is a member of the AAUP and the Campus Faculty Association at UIUC.

Matthew W. Finkin, Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Matthew Finkin holds a professorship in the College of Law. He is the editor of The Case for Tenure (Cornell U. Press 1995) and co-author with Robert Post, Dean of the Yale Law School, of For the Common Good: Principles of American Academic Freedom (Yale U. Press 2009). He has served as General Counsel of the American Association of University Professors, chair of its Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, and a member, sometimes chair, of the UIUC Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure (CAFT). He served on CAFT for its disposition of the Salaita matter.

Moderator: Carol Symes, History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Carol Symes is the Lynn M. Martin Professorial Scholar at the University of Illinois, where she joined the Department of History in 2002.  She also holds appointments in Medieval Studies, Theatre, and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. She has served as co-chair of the campus General Education Board and has chaired numerous committees within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Her current book project reconstructs the public, material, and performative dimensions of medieval documentary culture; it was supported last year by a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.  She is the founding executive editor of The Medieval Globe, a new academic journal launched in 2014 with a special issue on the Black Death as a global pandemic. 

This event is co-sponsored by IPRH and the Spurlock Museum.  

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