Promoting the understanding, practice, and advancement of free and open discourse at @uchicago and beyond. Reposting ≠ endorsing, recirculation ≠ agreement.
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Our Faculty Director, Tom Ginsburg, will be at NYU today (10/16) for a Heterodox Conversation on a question many campuses are asking: does institutional neutrality protect free speech and academic freedom, or undermine them?
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Tom will be in conversation with John Wilson, higher education researcher and writer for Inside Higher Ed’s Debatable Ideas column. The event is hosted by Heterodox Academy and co-sponsored by BridgeUSA & the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations.
RSVP here: partiful.com/e/cIhXCZjijwJCU…?
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Who shapes the rules of online speech, and what does that mean for public discourse?
Join us for a conversation on Oct. 13 at 11:00 AM CDT at the David Rubenstein Forum with Fall Fellows Sasha Havlicek and David Kaye, moderated by Chicago Forum Executive Director Talin Hitik.
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Register here to join us in person or via livestream: thechicagoforum.uchicago.edu…
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The Chicago Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression retweeted
Welcome to Dulcey Hunter, UChicago's inaugural Banned Books Postdoctoral Scholar! We look forward to seeing what Dulcey discovers using the Library's Banned Books Collection and with UChicago's faculty and librarians as partners. lib.uchicago.edu/about/news/…
Introducing Dulcey Hunter, our inaugural Banned Books Postdoctoral Scholar. Her research explores book banning, trauma, and the power of reading censored texts together in the classroom. More to come.
Two new Fellows are joining the Chicago Forum this fall: Sasha Havlicek (Institute for Strategic Dialogue) and David Kaye (UC Irvine, former UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression).
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Join us on October 13 for a conversation on who controls the public square. Livestream available.
Register here: thechicagoforum.uchicago.edu…
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For the third time in seven years, @UChicago ranks #1 for free speech in the U.S.
FIRE's 2027 College Free Speech Rankings surveyed nearly 63,000 students at 262 schools. UChicago scored 81.42 overall.
Read more about the report: fire.org/news/2027-college-f…
Does institutional neutrality protect or undermine free speech and academic freedom? Our Faculty Director @tomginsburg joins @johnkwilson of the AAUP for a discussion on this topic on September 9, hosted by Heterodox Academy & Bridge USA.
Register here: events.iu.edu/bloomington/ev…
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What does free speech actually mean on a college campus? Chicago Forum Faculty Director Tom Ginsburg breaks it down on Translations, covering public vs. private universities, different campus spaces, and Title VI.
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The Chicago Forum is hiring! We're looking for a Director of Marketing & Strategic Communications and an Events Manager to join our team at UChicago. Committed to free inquiry and open discourse? Apply today.
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Apply for the Director of Marketing & Strategic Communications: uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.c…
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Apply for the Events Manager: uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.c…
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Congratulations to our Faculty Director Professor @tomginsburg , winner of the Prize for Public Policy Impact in Constitutional Studies! He'll be honored at the 2027 Global Summit on Constitutionalism at UT Austin, March 17–19. 🎉
The Chicago Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression retweeted
🏅 Congratulations to Professor Tom Ginsburg @UChicago @UChicagoLaw, winner of the Prize for Public Policy Impact in Constitutional Studies, awarded jointly by the International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism and the Constitutional Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin.
🌎 We will present the Prize to Professor Ginsburg at the 2027 Global Summit on Constitutionalism, to be held on March 17-19, 2027, at the University of Texas at Austin.
📝 Registration closes on September 14, 2026. All details are available here: law.utexas.edu/the-2027-glob…
🤩 I am thrilled to be hosting the Global Summit with my colleagues @AntoniaBaraggia @benvicente @CSantosBotelho @huiwenche @Con_Law_Masa @roznaiy and Cristina Fasone.
What do university faculty and administrators take away from a convening on academic freedom? IU's Dan Preston joined the Chicago Forum this summer for our Academic Freedom Institute. Read his reflections and takeaways from the institute.
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A federal court recently took up a Trump administration policy targeting noncitizen technology researchers. Former Chicago Forum Student Board co-president Elisabeth Snyder writes about what it means for free expression and independent research.
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Dr. Leila Brammer, Director of Curriculum at The Chicago Forum, writes for the Council on Foundations on why better disagreement fuels better decisions — and how organizations can build that capacity.
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Is citizenship, and the passport that comes with it, truly a foundation of equality?
Constitutional scholar @ProfKochenov joins @tomginsburg & @cfloed on Entitled to examine whether citizenship functions as a global caste system.
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