CANCELLED: Free Speech & the role of a Professor at Middlebury

The goal for this workshop is to begin with a famous text from an ‘Eastern’ tradition that journeys into the complex and often conflicting dharmas that exist in a human life. Then, from this foundation, we move to a discussion of a topic that seems to have embroiled our community. On what source does one rely to determine the role that one should play as a professor when it comes to ‘free speech’? What are we to make of the Gita’s call to let go of the fruits of our actions when it comes to advocating for, protecting or expanding ‘free speech’?