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Limits on the Limited Public Forum

April 12, 2018April 12, 2018 Faith M SparrResearch Brief
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Over the past several months, the University of Michigan has been squarely confronted with how to balance free speech with campus safety concerns and an inclusive campus environment.  This post will set forth some of the legal issues UM must […]

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“It’s Not OK to be a Nazi”: In Search of Counter-Narratives as an Anti-Alt-Right Strategy

February 21, 2018March 7, 2018 Angela Denise DillardDebates

In late January and early February, timed no doubt to coincide with the celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the start of Black History month, we began to hear internet-based, anticipatory “chatter” about yet another wave of racist, […]

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Classics and the Alt-Right: Historicizing Visual Rhetorics of White Supremacy

February 15, 2018February 17, 2018 Heidi MorseHistory and Context

On September 26, 2016, a white supremacist group calling itself “Identity Evropa” (@IdentityEvropa) used Twitter to announce a new campaign called #ProjectSiege. The campaign would target college campuses across the nation with eye-catching posters designed to glorify white European identity […]

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The Refugee

January 23, 2018January 25, 2018 Anne BergKeywords / Definitions
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Who is a refugee? A person of concern? An expellee? A stateless person? A migrant? A displaced person? The terminology is confusing at best, and perhaps deliberately so, for it obscures the acute state of dread, depravation, suffering and trauma […]

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Crisis Democracy: Moral Struggle in American Politics

December 4, 2017January 25, 2018 Luis FloresHistory and Context

President Mark Schlissel and the UM Board of Regents are moving forward with neo-Nazi provocateur Richard Spencer’s request for campus space to host a speaking event. In a communication to the student body that emphasized his opposition to Spencer’s “vile” […]

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Failing Flint: Lessons from the Water Crisis

November 17, 2017January 25, 2018 Karyn R LacyResearch Brief

When we turn on our faucets, most of us take-for-granted that the water flowing from the pipes will be safe for consumption.  The residents of Flint, an impoverished, heavily black community only an hour east of Ann Arbor, no longer […]

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How to Build a People’s University

October 27, 2017January 25, 2018 Learn Speak Act AuthorsHistory and Context
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By Emily Price, Kate Silbert, and Gregory Parker If you visited the bicentennial exhibit Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University, you had the chance to stand behind the actual lectern used by university commencement speakers and consider what […]

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Refuting Charles Murray

October 11, 2017December 4, 2017 Learn Speak Act AuthorsResearch Brief
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Over the past several years, universities have sought to maintain campus environments that support free speech and diverse dialogue while keeping concerns about student safety and safeguarding the welfare of minority students at the forefront. Finding the right balance can be challenging, […]

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C.C. Little, Eugenics, and the Calvinism of Wellness

October 2, 2017January 25, 2018 Henry GreenspanOpinion
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In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and […]

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Looking a Little More Deeply into C.C. Little

September 25, 2017October 27, 2017 Karla GoldmanOpinion
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I’ve been both pleased and concerned to see the recent attention to Clarence Cook Little, president of the University of Michigan from 1924 to 1929.  Pleased, because while in my own research I have found him both admirable and objectionable, […]

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Why the C.C. Little Building Should be Renamed

September 22, 2017January 25, 2018 Alexandra SternOpinion
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This post was originally published on April 12, 2017. In January 1928, Clarence C. Little delivered an address at the Third Race Betterment Conference in Battle Creek, Michigan, on the strides being made by scientists committed to the ideas and […]

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Debating the Legacy of C. C. Little

September 21, 2017December 4, 2017 Angela Denise DillardDebates
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Welcome to the Re-Launch of the LSA Blog! We’ll be debating the legacy of Clarence C. Little on campus this fall and whether the university ought to remove his name from the C.C. Little Building. A team of faculty colleagues, […]

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Why I Marched for Science

May 15, 2017January 25, 2018 Chiamaka Ugochi UkachukwuOpinion
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I am a Pathways Master’s student in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. In my lab we study biofilm formation in E. coli. Biofilms are made of individual cells that stick to one another and form a complex […]

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How I prepared for the biggest talk of my career: thoughts on speaking at the March for Science in DC

May 5, 2017January 25, 2018 Meghan DuffyHistory and Context
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On April 22, I spoke on the main stage at the March for Science in Washington, DC, because I agreed with the march’s core principles – including regarding the need for diversity and inclusion in science, for evidence-based decision-making, and […]

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Recognizing Conflict and Building Tools for Engagement

This semester-long series invites students, faculty and staff to openly discuss, listen, and engage with differing views on free speech and to advocate for voices that have historically been silenced — important issues that continue to challenge both our campus and the nation.

For details of all upcoming events, visit the Speech & Inclusion Series website.

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