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Join us at Pilsen Community Books for a panel discussion on Palestine, academic freedom, and academic associations, featuring:

Margaret Power, emeritus professor at Illinois Institute of Technology
Van Gosse, emeritus professor of History at Franklin & Marshall College, co-chairs of Historians for Peace and Democracy (HPAD)
Andy Clarno, associate professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois Chicago and
Eman Abdelhadi, assistant professor of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago, members of the organizing committee of Sociologists for Palestine (S4P)
Bill Ayers, retired Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois Chicago and long-term organizer and author.

Come learn about HPAD’s campaign to bring a resolution to the American Historical Association convention condemning the Gazan scholasticide and calling on the AHA to help rebuild Gaza’s educational system, which was overwhelmingly passed by membership but later vetoed byleadership. Also learn about S4P’s efforts to pass an institutional Boycott resolution in the American Sociology Association. The event will also explore what constitutes scholasticide and consider how academic professionals and community members alike can take proactive steps to preserve vulnerable histories.

Margaret Power is Professor of History emeritus at Illinois Tech. She is the author or co-author of seven books, including the award-winning Solidarity Across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-imperialism and Right-Wing Women in Chile: Feminine Power and the Struggle against Salvador Allende, 1964-1973. She is co-director of Digitizing the Barrio, on the board of directors of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center in Chicago, and co-chair of Historians for Peace and Democracy.

Van Gosse is Professor of History Emeritus at Franklin & Marshall College and co-chair of Historians for Peace and Democracy (www.historiansforpeace.org). He is the author of numerous articles and books on post-1945 social movements, including Where the Boys Are: Cuba, Cold War America, and the Making of a New Left (1993) and Rethinking the New Left: An Interpretative History (2005). More recently, he has written on African American politics, including articles in the American Historical Review and the Journal of the Early Republic and his book, The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America, From the Revolution to the Civil War (2021).

Eman Abdelhadi is a Chicago-based scholar, organizer, and writer. An Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, she is author of the forthcoming Impossible Futures: Why Women Leave Muslim Communities (University of Chicago Press) and co-author of the sci-fi novel Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072 (Common Notions, 2022).

Bill Ayers is an activist and educator who has written extensively about social justice, democracy, and teaching as an ethical and political enterprise. His books include A Kind and Just Parent; Fugitive Days: A Memoir; To Teach: The Journey, in Comics; Demand the Impossible!; and When Freedom is the Question Abolition is the Answer.

Andy Clarno is associate professor of Sociology and Black Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. He is the author of Neoliberal Apartheid and co-author of Imperial Policing. Andy organizes with Sociologists for Palestine and Sanctuary for All UIC.