The Philosophers' Café: Freedom of Assembly

Name: The Philosophers' Café: Freedom of Assembly
Start: 2026-04-27T17:00:00-05:00
Location: 2418 Leon Bond Drive, Green Bay, WI, United States, Wisconsin 54311

Schedule

Mon, 27 Apr, 2026 at 05:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

2418 Leon Bond Drive, Green Bay, WI, United States, Wisconsin 54311 | Green Bay, WI

This spring, UW-Green Bay’s Philosophy Program is hosting the Philosophers' Café at the Mauthe Center, focusing on the First Amendment and the limits of tolerance. Each evening will consist of a moderated discussion featuring a faculty member with expertise on the topic, open to both UW-Green Bay students and community members. The goal is to bring together people with diverse opinions in respectful dialogue, exploring questions of tolerance and civil liberties. This program is supported by a grant from the Wisconsin Institute for Citizenship and Civil Dialogue (WICCD), and it is hosted by UWGB Philosophy professor Robert Riordan.
The topic for this evening's discussion is "Freedom of Assembly." It will be led by Dr. Jon Shelton, Professor and Chair of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay. He is the author of The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy (Cornell University Press, 2023) and Teacher Strike! Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order, which was the winner of the International Standing Conference of the History of Education’s First Book Award in 2018. Shelton has also published work in the Washington Post, Dissent, Jacobin, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, and other publications. He served as the Vice-Chair of the city of Green Bay’s first ever Equal Rights Commission and sits on the Board of Directors for the Labor and Working-Class History Association and the Wisconsin Labor History Society. He also serves as President for Higher Education of the American Federation of Teachers-Wisconsin.