Religion and Human Rights Unit and Teaching Religion Unit
“Academic Freedom and Freedom of Expression in the Religious Studies Classroom”
For a possible co-sponsorship with the Religion and Human Rights Program Unit and the Religion and Public Schools: International Perspectives Unit, we invite papers that explore the topic of “academic freedom and freedom of expression.” For this co-sponsorship, proposals that are grounded in scholarship of teaching and learning are particularly desired. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
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the relationship between an instructor’s academic freedom and their teaching obligations;
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strategies for utilizing religious studies materials for teaching about contentious topics;
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strategies for supporting the academic freedom and free speech rights of students;
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explorations of attacks on academic freedom at the hands of political administrations;
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academic freedom and campus protest.