Sometimes referred to as the "Activist Ivy," Columbia University has a unique tradition of student, faculty, and staff protest that stretches back for more than a century. Highlighted by the campus revolution of 1968, the anti-apartheid movement of the 1980s, and the struggles for diversified curricula in the 1990s and 2000s, university affiliates have employed the full arsenal of civil disobedience on campus -- cajoling, demonstrating, leafleting, confronting, vandalizing, boycotting, picketing, hunger-striking, and occupying -- in pursuit of their diverse visions of equity and justice. In this first presentation in a three-part conversation, Professor Thai Jones will present an overview of this lineage, focusing on how protests develop, what tactics students have used, how administrators have responded, and how these decisions have come together to create an active and dynamic tradition of radical protest at Columbia University.

Please Note: This event will be virtual.