A Conversation with Kenneth L. Marcus on Law, Jew-hatred and Higher Education ~ Monday April 19th

The Academic Engagement Network Presents: Law, Jew-hatred, and Higher Education: A Conversation with Kenneth L. Marcus

Monday, April 19, at 12 PM EST

 Kenneth L. Marcus, the Founder and Chairman of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, and a former Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education for Civil Rights will discuss ways of recognizing and addressing antisemitism in higher education, as well as his own work in the field. An interactive Q and A will follow his talk.

For further background, see this article by Marcus, which was featured in “Contemporary Antisemitism in the United States,” a recently launched project of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) at Tel Aviv University:

Addressing Antisemitism Within and Through the Educational Systems in the United States

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Kenneth L. Marcus is the Founder and Chairman of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, former Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education for Civil Rights, and author of The Definition of Anti-Semitism (Oxford University Press: 2015) and Jewish Identity and Civil Rights in America (Cambridge University Press: 2010). Marcus previously held the Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Chair in Equality and Justice in America at the City University of New York’s Bernard M. Baruch College School of Public Affairs.
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Special thanks to Oren Gross, Irving Younger Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and Chair of AEN’s Section for Faculty in Law, and Dan Gordon, Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Chair of AEN’s Section for Faculty in the Northeast, for helping to organize this event!