FREE SPEECH IN A DIVERSE WORLD

DRAFT PROGRAM (9/20/2008)

SESSION I

Thursday, September 25, 2008

7:30-10:00 pm, with 12-15 minute break around 8:45

Topic: Why Free Speech? Part I

• Garver, Love Is All You Need: Freedom of Thought Versus Freedom of Action
• Lee, Hate Speech in the Marketplace of Ideas
Commentaries: DeGeorge, Macleod, Mazor (on Ellin, Allen, and Lee), Nelson, Schonsheck
• Varden, Kant on Free Speech

SESSION II

Friday, September 26, 2008

8:30 am Continental Breakfast 9:00 -12:00 with 12-15 minute break around 10:30

Topic: Why Free Speech? Part II

• Abegg, Political Speech Under Moral Nonrealism
• Hassoun, Conditions for Freedom in a Diverse World
• Commentary: W. Lee
• Macleod, Free Speech, Equal Opportunity, and Justice
• Commentaries: Cudd (on Macleod, Nunan, and Roberts), Landesman
• Parker, Free Speech and the Social Technologies of Democracy, Scientific Inquiry and the Free Market

9:00 pm Informal gathering in hotel bar to watch presidential debate

SESSION III

Friday, September 26, 2008

2:00 - 5:00 pm, with a 12-15 minute break around 3:30
Topic: Hate Speech, Speech Codes, and Sexual Harassment

• Ellin, Are Free Speech and Multicultural Diversity Incompatible?
• Commentaries: Gray, Mazor (on Ellin, Allen, and Lee),
• Van Wyk on Peard, Ellin, and Draeger)
• Fischer, Shadow University versus War Party: the Great Contest over how to Trample Hardest on Free Speech and the First Amendment
• Peard, Sexual Harassment in the Classroom: Exploring the Limits of Free Speech
  • Commentary: Van Wyk (above)
• Roberts, Burning Crosses, Hanging Nooses, and Using “Nigger:” The Morality of Anti-Black Expression
• Commentaries: Cudd (on Macleod, Nunan and Roberts)
• Stone, The Offensive and Vulgar: Protecting Speech and Expression in Comedic Venues

Sponsored by the School of Law at Villanova University
President’s Lounge

SESSION IV

Saturday, September 27, 2008

8:30 Continental breakfast

9:00 am - 12:00 noon, with 12-15 minute break around 10:30
Topic: The Right to Free Expression and Association and the Right to Be Silent

• Allen, Undressing Indifference: The Hijab in the West
• Commentaries: Ellin (on Henley, Allen and Nunan), Friedman, Harwood, Mazor (on Ellin, Allen, and Lee), Scholz, Sistare
• Gill, When Free Speech Meets Free Association: The Case of the Boy Scouts
• Henley, Oaths and the Pledge of Allegiance: Freedom of Expression and the Right to Be Silent
• Commentaries: Axinn, Ellin (above), Robison
• Nunan, Social Institutions, Transgendered Lives, and the Scope of Free Expression
• Commentaries: Ellin (above), Cudd (on Macleod, Nunan, and Roberts)

SESSION V

Saturday, September 27, 2008

2:00 - 5:00 pm, with a 12-15 minute break around 3:30
Topic: Free Speech and Intolerance

• Draeger, Be Nice? I Don’t Even Like Him!
• Commentaries: Cooper, Golash, Van Wyk (on Peard, Ellin & Draeger)
• Martin, Political Toleration and Constraints on Speech in the International Sphere
• Commentaries: Macleod
• May, Incitement to Genocide and the Rwanda Media Case
• Commentaries: Held, Macleod
• Smaw, Swaying in the Balance: Civil Liberties, Security, and Justice in Times of Emergency
• Commentaries: Robison, Rooney, Scholz (on Allen and Smaw)

• Presidential address: Carol Gould
• Picolte Hall

SESSION VI

Sunday, September 28, 2008

8:30 Continental breakfast

9:00 am - 12:00 noon, with 12-15 minute break around 10:30

Part I - 9:00 to 10:30

Topic: Rapporteur Reports and Executive Director's Closing Statement

• Chair: Bruce Landesman
• Reports
• Closing Statement: B. Landesman

Part II - 10:45 to 12 noon

Topic: Business Meeting

Errors? Please contact Deirdre Golash

Program Committee: Deirdre Golash (Chair), Win-chiat Lee, Bill Nelson, Helga Varden