Speaker: Michael Roth | President of Wesleyan University
From Academic Freedom to Defending Democracy: Our Task in 2026
Although universities have conducted their affairs within monarchies and even dictatorships, modern higher education has flourished by being part of an ecosystem of freedoms. Academic freedom is currently under assault by the federal government. Michael Roth’s talk will examine the threats to higher education and discuss how defending our democracy, restoring our ecosystem of freedoms, is the key to revitalizing the higher education sector.
Event Co-hosted by The Public Culture Project
Founded as a graduate program in 1904 and joining with the undergraduate Literature Concentration in 2007, Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature operates at the crossroads of multilingualism, literary study, and media history.
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