[van-announce] January 12 & 14: “Unhired” Palestinian American professor Steven Salaita at SFU and UBC

[Charlotte Kates]

SERIOUSLY FREE SPEECH COMMITTEE – VANCOUVER presents

*PROFESSOR STEVEN SALAITA* on

*“FIRST PEOPLES, PALESTINE, AND THE CRUSHING OF FREE SPEECH”*

Professor Salaita is at the centre of an international protest against
academic censorship. Author of six books and many articles, he was
“unhired” from a tenured position in American Indian studies at the
University of Illinois when donors pressured the university because of
Salaita’s tweets on his personal Twitter account about the Gaza massacre
this past summer. Because this action is widely recognized as part of a
broad effort to silence voices for Palestinian rights and justice, and as
one incident in the long history of colonial treatment of indigenous
peoples, the case has attracted international attention.

*AT SFU:* Monday, January 12, 7:30 PM in the Segal rooms at Harbour Centre,
555 Hastings Street.

*AT UBC:* Wednesday, January 14, 5 PM in the Coach House at Green College,
6201 Cecil Green Park Road(off Marine Drive, near MOA)

Free admission to both talks; Dr. Salaita’s books will be available at both.

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Co-sponsors:
CanPalNet
Canada-Palestine Association
Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures, SFU
BIAC (Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign)
UNJPPI (United Network for Justice and Peace in Palestine and Israel)
Building Bridges
Independent Jewish Voices
SFU English Department
SPHR-UBC (Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights)
Critical Race and Postcolonial Feminist Theory Group-UBC
Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Church-Vancouver

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Charlotte L. Kates     charlotte.kates at gmail.com