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Day 7 (17 March 2009) and Day 8 (18 March 2009) featured a lot of heated exchanges and sometimes complex testimony on fairly small, densely clustered issues pertaining to rules of scholarship and — this will be of particular interest to anthropologists — what is considered valid knowledge, indigenous oral traditions, secrecy, and from the […]
Read More…Bias, rules, meaninglessness, and footnotes. Monday, 16 March, 2009, was Day 6 of Ward Churchill’s court case against the University of Colorado in defense of academic freedom, and it was an excellent day for Churchill’s team to again call some of his more notorious pursuers to account, leaving them to destroy their own reputations and […]
Read More…Day 5 (Friday, 13 March, 2009) in Ward Churchill’s case against the University of Colorado featured several key exchanges and testimonies that appeared to be critical to the trial, with two more weeks left to the trial. For those unfamiliar with the story, Ward Churchill, a prominent American Indian activist and author, is a formerly […]
Read More…Yesterday, 12 March 2009, was the fourth day in Ward Churchill’s trial of the University of Colorado, and it some very striking statements were made in court by Churchill’s opponents, to the extent that one has to ask if some of them, especially former Governor Bill Owens, are not perjuring themselves, while others, such as […]
Read More…Yesterday, Wednesday 11 March 2009, was day three in the lawsuit brought by Ward Churchill against the University of Colorado, over his firing from a tenured position, allegedly on the grounds of shoddy scholarship, but immediately following mass mediated controversy over his 9/11 essay. Here is part of what happened on Day Three, which featured […]
Read More…News for March 10, 2009 This week saw the start of the trial of the University of Colorado over its dismissal of Ward Churchill on the grounds that his firing was punishment for Churchill’s constitutionally protected free speech. At least four blogs are now covering the daily proceedings, which began on March 9 and are […]
Read More…In connection with my post for yesterday, “Misunderstanding and Misrepresenting the Charges Against Ward Churchill,” I was delighted to get extra ammunition and free advertising from what appears to be a smear blog whose primary obsession is Ward Churchill, and whose intended aim seems to be the ceaseless production of libel and slander while sleeplessly […]
Read More…The main point of this post, following from the debate in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and following from the previous one for today, is very simple and straightforward, so much so that critics of Churchill either miss this point accidentally or intentionally in developing their critiques of Churchill (either possibility, the accidental or the […]
Read More…The increasingly massive number of words produced in either defaming Ward Churchill as an academic fraud, fabricator, and plagiarist, or in rebutting these charges, alone makes an analysis of the case a complex challenge. Add to that the political positions and motivations of the various actors, the questions that continue to go without answer, the […]
Read More…Issues of academic freedom have been very important on this blog, and current events continue to make them very relevant. Recently I have been writing about the case of Norman Finkelstein (here and here) and I have created an Academic Freedom channel in Open Anthropology TV, that heavily features Finkelstein. I have also written to […]
Read More…Great news from How the university works that Ward Churchill’s very good case against the University of Colorado will go to court in early 2009, challenging the right wing witch hunt that unfairly targeted him and that stalks the 65% of faculty in the U.S. who are not tenured, or are not tenure-track. As laid […]
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