FREE SPEECH 1: Joan Scott on Who has the Right to Speak on Campus?
Who has the right to speak on campus? Joan Scott, Professor Emerita at the Institute for Advanced Study and one of America's foremost historians, speaks about free speech on campus, Charlottesville, the difference between academic freedom and a blanket rule permitting all opinions to be debated, and the role of the university in educating students and citizens to make such distinctions. Scott is the author of many books, including Sex and Secularism, The Fantasy of Feminist History, The Politics of the Veil, Gender and the Politics of History, and the landmark article, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis," which ranks among one of the most widely cited and most influential essays on history and methodology to date.
