Contextualizing Student Speech & Assembly at UNC

Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/25/2024
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Join a student-led panel centered around contemporary and historical student protests and the issues around free speech and assembly.

Panelists:

• Sara Smith is a feminist political geographer and professor of Geography and Environment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work is animated by a desire to understand how our ordinary lives put the work of territorialization in motion, to change how we operate as scholars and teachers in academic spaces, and to think our discipline’s core ideas more capaciously to engage with Black, Indigenous, anticolonial, and queer of color theorization.
• Hashem Amireh is a graduate student in the department of economics. He is the former president of the Graduate Workers Union and has been involved with Students for Justice in Palestine and Graduate Students for the Liberation of Palestine.

Moderator:

• Christina Huang is an undergraduate student in American Studies. She currently serves as the President of Affirmative Action Coalition and involved with TransparUNCy.

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