IRW Distinguished Lecture Series 2025–2026
Feminism, Democracy, and Academic Freedom
Judith Butler
University of California, Berkeley
Academic freedom is not the same as freedom of speech, but does it hold potential for imagining a more radical democracy? Although claimed in contradictory ways by partisans along the political spectrum, academic freedom can be renewed and reformulated by those defending the constitutional rights of expression and assembly, but also those who are imagining a radical democratic counter-imaginary for authoritarian times. Relying on vibrant traditions of transfeminism, what forms of interdependence among the living can inform resistance and the practices of antiauthoritarian worldmaking?
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