Rights & The Humanities: Critique, Scholarly Authority, and Academic Freedom with Prof. Joan Scott

Learn more about the Duke Human Rights Center here: https://humanrights.fhi.duke.edu/
The enormous changes that have overtaken universities in the last fifty years have undermined the ability of academic freedom to protect free expression. Prof. Scott raises questions about whether notions of consensus are still possible or if academic freedom has become a synonym for the individual right of free speech.

Joan Scott is professor emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. The author of the now classic Gender and the Politics of History, her most recent books are Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom and On the Judgment of History.

The Duke Human Rights Center @ the Franklin Humanities Institute brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, staff and students to promote new understandings of and action on human rights. We engage with issues of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, income inequality, the environment, the philosophy and history of human rights, the literature that emerges alongside it, linguistic rights, and artistic responses in our research, teaching, programming and outreach. Our goal is to foster strategies and collaborative, cross-disciplinary and critical thinking about human rights in both local and global contexts.