EHSR June Meeting with Special Guest, Professor Jonathan Rieder

For the Ethical Humanist Society of Rochester's June meeting, special guest Jonathan Rieder, professor of sociology at Barnard College and Columbia University, will join us to discuss academic freedom and campus politics. He's the author of two books on Martin Luther King, Jr. —Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation (Bloomsbury, 2013) and The Word of the Lord is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Harvard University Press, 2008). He is currently working on a book based on six years of field research in Alabama entitled Bittersweet Home Alabama; The Progressive White Rockers Who Are Reckoning with Race and Fighting the Culture Wars in a Churning South.

Professor Rieder has been at the center of recent debates about the ethical dilemmas raised by such issues as academic freedom, faculty responsibility for student well-being, the purposes of higher education, and politics in the college classroom. Included is a link to an article about Barnard's decision to cancel his course on race can be found here: Who’s allowed to teach ‘Culture in America’?

*Note: This will be a Zoom-only meeting.

We hope to see you there and please don’t forget to RSVP.