The Philosophers' Café: Freedom of Assembly
Schedule
Mon, 27 Apr, 2026 at 05:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
2418 Leon Bond Drive, Green Bay, WI, United States, Wisconsin 54311 | Green Bay, WI
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.
Where is it happening?
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