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MFSA Winter 2024 Meeting

Date & Time

Feb 1, 2024 04:00 PM ET

Description

As with MFSA’s other all-hands meetings, the second half of the meeting will focus on MFSA business and open the floor to questions and comments from members. Among other items, MFSA will assess the state of free expression at MIT in light of the Israel-Hamas conflict and associated campus protests and demonstrations, and also discuss MFSA’s plans for 2024.

This meeting will run from 4:00-5:30 ET, and is open to the public. Registration is required.

For additional reading, see Reason magazine’s feature “Universities Use DEI Statements to Enforce Groupthink,” adapted from The Canceling of the American Mind.

(https://reason.com/2024/01/06/the-conformity-gauntlet/)

About Greg Lukianoff:

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Greg Lukianoff, a graduate of Stanford Law School, is an attorney, New York Times best-selling author, and the President and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). He is the author of Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate, Freedom From Speech, and FIRE’s Guide to Free Speech on Campus. He co-authored the New York Times-bestselling The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure with Jonathan Haidt, expanding on their September 2015 Atlantic cover story of the same name.

The MIT Free Speech Alliance’s quarterly all-hands member meetings return on February 1, with special guest speaker Greg Lukianoff. Greg Lukianoff is the President and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), and the co-author, with Rikki Schlott, of the recently published book The Canceling of the American Mind, a comprehensive examination and critique of cancel culture, backed by voluminous research and data. The Canceling of the American Mind provides not only the most in-depth treatment of this recent cultural phenomenon, it also offers solutions we can all make use of for restoring an open culture of free expression.

As with MFSA’s other all-hands meetings, the second half of the meeting will focus on MFSA business and open the floor to questions and comments from members. Among other items, MFSA will assess the state of free expression at MIT in light of the Israel-Hamas conflict and associated campus protests and demonstrations, and also discuss MFSA’s plans for 2024. This meeting will run from 4:00-5:30 ET, and is open to the public. Registration is required. This meeting is fully virtual, and will be held on Zoom.

For additional reading, see Reason magazine’s feature “Universities Use DEI Statements to Enforce Groupthink,” adapted from The Canceling of the American Mind.

Speaker biography:

Greg Lukianoff is an attorney, New York Timesbest-selling author, and the President and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). He is the author of Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate, Freedom From Speech, and FIRE’s Guide to Free Speech on Campus. Most recently, he co-authored The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure with Jonathan Haidt. This New York Times best-seller expands on their September 2015 Atlantic cover story of the same name. Greg is also an Executive Producer of Can We Take a Joke? (2015), a feature-length documentary that explores the collision between comedy, censorship, and outrage culture, both on and off campus, and of Mighty Ira: A Civil Liberties Story (2020), an award-winning feature-length film about the life and career of former ACLU Executive Director Ira Glasser.

Greg has been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and numerous other publications. He frequently appears on TV shows and radio programs, including the CBS Evening News, The Today Show, and NPR’s Morning Edition. In 2008, he became the first-ever recipient of the Playboy Foundation’s Freedom of Expression Award, and he has testified before both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives about free speech issues on America’s college campuses.

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