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"Protest, Power, and Student Rights: The Berkeley Free Speech Crises from the 1930s through the Early Trump Era" with Robert Cohen

"Protest, Power, and Student Rights: The Berkeley Free Speech Crises from the 1930s through the Early Trump Era" with Robert Cohen (NYU)

October 11, 2018
5:00 - 6:00pm
Humanities Gateway (HG) 1030

Join us for a talk with Robert Cohen (NYU, UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement Fellow) where he will place current issues of free speech on campuses into a larger historical perspective.

Robert Cohen is a professor of history and social studies in NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and an affiliated member of NYU’s History Department. He is also one of the inaugural fellows of the UC system's National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement. His historical scholarship focuses on politics, higher education, and social protest in twentieth-century America. His social studies work links middle and high school teachers with the recent advances in historical scholarship, and develops curriculum aimed at teaching their students to explore history as a critical discipline – and one that is characterized by intense and exciting debate.