The Encampments: Film Screening & Discussion

The Encampments: Film Screening & Discussion

Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall

Join us on Thursday, November 20th, from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. for a screening of the film “The Encampments” at Columbia Journalism School, followed by a conversation about the fight for free speech on campus.

Speakers include Ramya Krishnan, senior staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute, who led the Institute's litigation in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio, a challenge to the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and threatening to deport noncitizen students and faculty who participate in pro-Palestinian advocacy, and Nadia Abu El-Haj, the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Anthropology and co-director of the Center for Palestine Studies. The conversation will be moderated by Azmat Khan, the Patti Cadby Birch Assistant Professor of Journalism and director of the Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism.

This event is sponsored by the Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School; the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; and the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University.

This event will be open to CUID holders only. Registration is required.

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