2011 Events and Media Appearances

2011

Wednesday, December 7, 2011 

FIRE Chicago Happy Hour

6:00 PM – 9:00PM, CST

Location: The Kerryman, Chicago

With Greg Lukianoff and Azhar Majeed

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

FIRE Lecture at UCLA

5:30 p.m. PST

Location: School of Public Affairs, Room 5391

With Greg Lukianoff

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

FIRE Lecture at Florida State University

12:30 p.m. EST

Location: BK Roberts Building, Room 241

With Adam Kissel

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

FIRE Lecture at Marywood University

2 p.m. EST

Location: Comerford Auditorium

With Will Creeley

Thursday, November 17, 2011

FIRE on Stossel with Harvey Silverglate and Will Creeley

10:00 PM

Watch Stossel‘s show “Free Speech … and Its Enemies” on Fox Business Network to see FIRE Board of Directors Chairman Harvey Silverglate and legal director Will Creeley discuss free speech on campus with host John Stossel. The show also features journalist Juan Williams as well as censored University of Wisconsin-Stout theater professor James Miller, who was reported to the campus “threat assessment team” and threatened with criminal charges merely for placing posters outside his office door. Stossel first airs at 10 p.m. Eastern on Thursday.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

FIRE Lecture at Columbia Law School

12 p.m. EST

Location: JG 104

With Harvey Silverglate

Thursday, November 17, 2011

FIRE Lecture at Constitution High School

12:00 PM

With Jaclyn Hall

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

FIRE Lecture at Auburn University

7:30 PM

Location: Auburn University Student Center, Room 2225

With Will Creeley

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

FIRE Lecture at University of Wisconsin

With Greg Lukianoff

Saturday, November 12, 2011

FIRE Keynote Lecture at Students for Liberty Florida Regional Conference

http://politicalconferences.org/2010/11/florida/

Location: University of Florida

With Greg Lukianoff

Saturday, November 12, 2011

FIRE Lecture at Students for Liberty Pittsburgh Regional Conference

http://politicalconferences.org/2010/11/pittsburgh/

Location: University of Pittsburgh

With Peter Bonilla

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Partner Organizations Panel at Students for Liberty Boston Regional Conference

Location: Harvard University

With Jaclyn Hall

Saturday, November 5, 2011

FIRE Lecture at Students for Liberty Northern California Regional Conference

Location: University of California – Berkeley

With Peter Bonilla

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Robert on the Scott Hennen Show

10:08 AM

FIRE Senior Vice President Robert Shibley will be discussing the recent due process victory at University of North Dakota, where student Caleb Warner was cleared of sexual assault charges. Listen live at http://scotthennen.com/live/

Saturday, October 22, 2011

FIRE Lecture at Students for Liberty Austin Regional Conference

http://politicalconferences.org/2010/10/austin/

Location: University of Texas – Austin

With Adam Kissel

Saturday, October 22, 2011

FIRE Lecture at Students for Liberty New York Regional Conference

http://politicalconferences.org/2010/10/new-york/

Location: Columbia University

With Peter Bonilla

Thursday, October 20, 2011

FIRE Lecture at Lonestar College – Kingwood

7:30 p.m.

Location: CLA 114 (The Teaching Theater)

With Adam Kissel

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

FIRE Lecture at University of California, Berkeley

7:00 PM

Location: 56 Barrows Hall

With Greg Lukianoff

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

FIRE Lecture at Sam Houston State University

7:00 PM

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=145638222200048

Location: Academic Building 4, Olson Auditorium

With Adam Kissel

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

FIRE Lecture at Ramapo College of New Jersey

4:00 PM

With Will Creeley

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

FIRE Lecture at Golden Gate Law School

12:00 PM

Location: 536 Mission Street in SF, room 3216

With Greg Lukianoff

Saturday, October 15, 2011

FIRE Lecture at Students for Liberty North Carolina Regional Conference

http://politicalconferences.org/2010/10/north-carolina/

Location: Salem College

With Adam Kissel

Saturday, October 8, 2011

FIRE Lecture at Students for Liberty Philadelphia Regional Conference

http://politicalconferences.org/2010/10/philadelphia/

Location: Drexel University

With Adam Kissel

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Adam on The Vicki McKenna Show

5:35 PM

FIRE Vice President of Programs Adam Kissel will be on The Vicki McKenna Show to discuss the free speech wall censorship at Sam Houston State University at 5:35 PM Eastern time. Listen live at http://www.wiba.com/pages/vicki.html

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

On Wednesday, October 5, FIRE Director of Legal and Public Advocacy Will Creeley will give two speeches at Boston University:

Social Media and the First Amendment

12 PM

Barristers Hall (Ground Floor), Boston University Law School

Sponsored by BU Law Federalist Society

“Red light” district: Free speech restrictions at BU

4:30 PM

College of Arts & Sciences Room B36

Sponsored by Liberty at Boston University

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Robert on the Dr. Katherine Albrecht Radio Show

12:00 PM

FIRE Senior Vice President Robert Shibley will be on the Dr. Katherine Albrecht radio show tomorrow, Saturday, October 1, at 12 PM Eastern. He will be discussing the Firefly poster controversy at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Check out the show’s website to listen live or to find a radio station near you!

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Happy Hour Event with FIRE, Reason, and Students For Liberty

6:00 PM

Join your favorite civil liberties organizations for a happy hour on Wednesday, September 28 at 6 PM at The Front Page. Enjoy appetizers and drink specials, including $2.00 well drinks, drafts, and wine. Your friends are welcome!

Location:

The Front Page

1333 New Hampshire Ave NW

Washington, District of Columbia

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Will on “Thunk Tank Tuesdays”

7:15 PM

In case you missed it yesterday, the outrageous censorship of University of Wisconsin-Stout (UWS) professor James Miller’s Firefly poster has inspired lots of news media coverage. Be sure to check out today’s stories in Gawker and The Onion’s AV Club.

Tonight, FIRE Director of Legal and Public Advocacy Will Creeley will be on “Thunk Tank Tuesdays” on WFMU (91.1 FM in the New York City area, and streaming online here) between 7:15 and 7:35 PM Eastern to discuss the case further. Don’t forget to tune in and follow along here on The Torch for more coverage of this case.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

FIRE Lecture at UNC Chapel Hill with Robert Shibley

7:00 PM

Location: Bingham Hall, room 317

Thursday, September 15, 2011

FIRE Lecture at Tarleton State University

7:30 PM

http://www.tarleton.edu/PROGRAMS/speakersymposium/kissel.html

Location: Nursing Building Lecture Hall

With Adam Kissel

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Robert on NRA News radio show

9:15 PM

Robert will be discussing his recent article, “Brainwashing U.” Listen live here.

Tuesday, Septerm 6, 2011

FIRE Lecture at University of Arizona

6:30 PM

Location: Santa Cruz room of the student union

With Peter Bonilla

Monday, August 29, 2011

FIRE Lecture at Leadership Institute Field Representative Conference

With Will Creeley

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Greg on The Vicki McKenna Show

6:09 PM

FIRE President Greg Lukianoff will appear this evening on The Vicki McKenna Show at 6:09 PM ET to discuss the threats to rights that students will face on campus this school year, especially in light of the new standards for sexual misconduct cases mandated by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. Tune in to hear Greg on WISN in Milwaukee and WIBA in Madison. You also can listen live online.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Robert on NRA News’ Cam & Company Radio Show

9:40 PM

FIRE Senior Vice President Robert Shibley will be on NRA News’ Cam & Company radio show at 9:40 p.m. Eastern time to discuss our recent victory for free speech at Nassau Community College as well as other current issues dealing with free speech and due process on campus. You can listen live online at nranews.com or tune your Sirius/XM radio to channel 125!

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Adam on The Unsolicited Opinion Radio Show

11:00 AM

Listen live at http://theunsolicitedopinion.com/

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Adam at the Institute for Humane Studies

2:00 PM

Today, FIRE Vice President of Programs Adam Kissel is speaking at the Institute for Humane Studies’ (IHS’) Liberty & Society seminar, leading a session titled “The Marketplace of Ideas.” The seminar hosts a mix of undergraduates, recent grads, and some graduate students who are interested in classical liberal or libertarian ideas. While Adam will be discussing the importance of free speech and colleges serving as open marketplaces of ideas, the other goals of the seminar are to explore what IHS identifies as “core concepts,” including: The Role of Government, Understanding Rights, The Economic Way of Thinking, Public Choice, and History of Classical Liberalism. We’re glad to have Adam representing FIRE at what is sure to be an interesting seminar.

Location: Bryn Mawr College

Thursday, July 14, 2011

The Campus Freedom Network Conference 2011

The Campus Freedom Network Conference brings together committed students from across the country to learn from eminent First Amendment scholars and meet fellow advocates for free speech on campus. FIRE is proud to announce that the 2011 CFN Conference will be held July 14-16 on the campus of Bryn Mawr College, just outside of Philadelphia.

Location: Bryn Mawr, PA

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Greg on Stossel

10:00 PM

FIRE President Greg Lukianoff will be on tonight’s episode of Stossel on Fox Business at 10 PM Eastern. The theme for tonight’s show is “The College Scam.” Greg will discuss speech codes, enforced political correctness, and kangaroo courts on campus, while host John Stossel and guests—including Indoctrinate U director Evan Coyne Maloney, economist Richard Vedder, and author and journalist Naomi Schaefer Riley—will examine whether college is worth the high price. Tune in to Fox Business tonight for what is sure to be an interesting show!

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Robert on WGN Radio 720

11:05 AM

FIRE Senior Vice President Robert Shibley will be featured on Chicago’s WGN Radio 720 at 11:05 AM EDT tomorrow morning. Tune in or listen live as Robert tackles the federal Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights’ (OCR’s) controversial guidance for universities in its April 4 “Dear Colleague” letter, which threatens student rights on our nation’s campuses.

Robert will also be discussing pundit Michael Barone’s recent take on the OCR letter in his latest column for The Examiner. OCR’s mandate, which continues to foster concern in the media, requires colleges and universities receiving federal funding to employ the low “preponderance of the evidence” evidentiary standard (“more likely than not”) when adjudicating complaints of sexual harassment and sexual violence.

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Civil Liberties Happy Hour in NYC

6:30 PM

Join FIRE, the National Coalition Against Censorship, and the National Booksellers for Freedom of Expression

Location:

The Porch, 115 Avenue C, New York, NY

Contact:

Please RSVP to Alisha Glennon at alisha@thefire.org

Friday, May 20, 2011

Adam on The Hugh Hewitt Show

7:30 PM

FIRE Vice President of Programs Adam Kissel will join guest host, David French, on The Hugh Hewitt Show at 7:30 PM ET to discuss FIRE’s case at UCLA with Dr. James Enstrom.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Adam Kissel on The Lockridge Report

2:00 PM

FIRE Vice President of Programs Adam Kissel will be on The Lockridge Report at 2 PM ET to discuss FIRE’s case at UCLA with Dr. James Enstrom.

Friday, May 13, 2011

Kirby Thomas on FOX News’ Glenn Beck

5:00 PM

Former FIRE intern Kirby Thomas of Bucknell University is scheduled to be on FOX News’ Glenn Beck television program at 5 PM ET. Kirby and other student guests are expected to discuss the problems often faced by conservative students who wish to speak out on campus. After Bucknell censored its Conservatives Club, of which Kirby was a leader, FIRE put Bucknell on FIRE’s Red Alert list of the worst of the worst schools for liberty on campus. Tune into FOX News Channel at 5 for the show!

Monday, May 9, 2011

FIRE Discussion at University of Chicago

6:30 PM

Adam Kissel will discuss University of Chicago’s red-light status and students’ free speech rights on campus.

Friday, April 29, 2011

Adam Kissel on Mary Mattox’s show on Point of View radio

3:30 PM

FIRE Vice President of Programs Adam Kissel will be on Mary Mattox’s show on Point of View radio (nationally syndicated across 300 stations) at 3:30 PM ET, discussing FIRE’s recent victory at Northern Illinois University.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

FIRE Lecture at Syracuse University College of Law

http://www.acslaw.org/events/2011-04-14/violations-of-free-speech-at-private-universities

12:00 PM

Location: SUCOL Room 204

With Adam Kissel

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

FIRE Lecture at American University

http://zh-hk.facebook.com/event.php?eid=206696956026487

7:00 PM

Location: Hughes Formal Lounge

With Adam Kissel

Monday, April 11, 2011

Adam on The Mike Slater Show

10:00 AM

FIRE Vice President of Programs Adam Kissel will be discussing FIRE’s case at UCLA with James Enstrom on The Mike Slater Show.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Adam Kissel at the 2011 North-American Interfraternity Conference’s (NIC’s) Annual Meeting

Adam will deliver a speech on freedom of association in higher education. This annual meeting is attended by nearly 500 people, including the executive directors and national/international presidents of the NIC’s 74 member fraternities. FIRE often defends individual fraternity chapters who are punished for protected expression on campus, and this event is a welcome opportunity to encourage these associations to fight campus censorship at the national level.

Friday, April 8, 2011

FIRE Lecture at University of Iowa

Location: 101 Jessup Hall

With Adam Kissel

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Two FIRE Lectures at Iowa State University

“Making Your Entire Campus a Free Speech Zone”

2:30 PM

Cardinal Room of the Memorial Union

Panel: “Snyder v. Phelps: Defending Speech You Hate.”

4:45 PM

Cardinal Room of the Memorial Union

Panelists: Gene Policinski, Executive Director of the First Amendment Center; Frank LoMonte, Executive Director of the Student Press Law Center; Adam Kissel, Vice President of Programs for FIRE; and Jeffrey J. Hunt of the law firm Parr, Brown, Gee and Loveless in Salt Lake City, Utah. Moderator: Richard Doak, Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication lecturer.

With Adam Kissel

Thursday, March 31, 2011

FIRE Lecture at University of North Florida

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=198890520145489

2:00 PM

Location:

Student Union (Building 58), Room 2704

With Adam Kissel

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

FIRE Lecture at Florida State University

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=172180416164263

7:00 PM

Location: Devoe Moore Center, Room 150

With Adam Kissel

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

FIRE Lecture at University of Florida

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=204098886282971

7:30 PM

Location: Little Hall, Room 237

With Adam Kissel

Monday, March 28, 2011

FIRE Lecture at University of Central Florida

UCF’s Free Speech Policies Under ‘FIRE’; Watchdog Group to Address Students

7:00 PM

Location:

Pegasus Ballroom ABC, in the Student Union

With Adam Kissel

Thursday, March 24, 2011

FIRE Lecture at Oberlin College

7:00 PM

Location: Science Center, West Lecture A162

With Greg Lukianoff

Thursday, March 24, 2011

FIRE Lecture at University of South Florida

6:00 PM

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=196847360338410

Location: BSN 225

With Adam Kissel

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

FIRE Lecture at Florida Gulf Coast University

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=117184611692948

7:00 PM

Location: Academic Building 3, Room 115

With Adam Kissel

Monday, March 14, 2011

Robert on The Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU 88.5 FM

1:00 PM

FIRE Senior Vice President Robert Shibley will be on The Kojo Nnamdi Show on WAMU 88.5 FM in Washington, D.C. discussing free speech on campus and the heckler’s veto. Robert will be joined by Mara Verheyden-Hilliard of the Partnership for Civil Justice.

Friday, March 04, 2011

FIRE Lecture at University of California, San Diego

2:00 PM

Location: Price Center West in the Eleanor Roosevelt Room

With Adam Kissel

Thursday, March 3, 2011

FIRE Lecture at Pepperdine University School of Law

12:30 PM

With Adam Kissel

Sponsored by the Pepperdine Chapter of the Federalist Society

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

FIRE Lecture at Belmont University

7:00 PM

With Adam Kisel

Location: Vince Gill Room

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

FIRE Lecture at Vanderbilt University

5:00 PM

With Adam Kissel

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Adam on The Andre Controversa Show

8:00 PM

FIRE Vice President of Programs Adam Kissel will be on Andre Traversa’s libertarian radio show at 8 PM to discuss FIRE’s case at the University of Delaware. Listen to the show at The Andre Controversa Show and call in at (949) 203-4821.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Adam on “Defending Free Speech on Campus” panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)

10:15 AM

Adam Kissel, FIRE’s Vice President of Programs, will be speaking on a panel entitled “Defending Free Speech on Campus,” moderated by Dr. Jan Blits from the University of Delaware. The panel will be held on Saturday, February 12, at 10:15 AM in the Marriott Ballroom.

Location:

Marriott Wardman Park Hotel

2660 Woodley Road, NW

Washington, District Of Columbia 20008

Monday, February 07, 2011

Greg on KVEC’s Dave Congalton Show

4:00 PM

Greg will discuss FIRE’s most recent cases and the chilling effect of campus censorship this afternoon on KVEC’s Dave Congalton Show at 4 PM Pacific Time. Tune in or listen live online.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Greg at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

7:00 PM

Sponsored by the Cal Poly College Republicans

Location:

Building 26, Room 103

Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Greg at The Claremont Colleges

5:30 PM Dinner

6:45 PM Talk

The event will start with dinner at 5:30 PM and the talk at 6:45.

Location: Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum

Sponsored by the ACLU of The Claremont Colleges

Friday, January 28, 2011

Adam on The Big Talker Radio Show

5:00 PM

FIRE Vice President of Programs Adam Kissel will be featured on Syracuse, NY’s The Big Talker radio show with Gary Nolan on 105.9 FM at 5 PM ET today. Tune in or listen live to hear him discuss why Syracuse landed at the top of our Huffington Post list of the 12 worst schools for free speech and which other schools comprise the “dirty dozen.”

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Greg on The Vicki McKenna Show

5:35 PM

Greg will appear on The Vicki McKenna Show tonight to discuss his Huffington Post feature on the 12 worst colleges for free speech at 5:35 PM ET. Tune in to listen on WISN in Milwaukee and WIBA in Madison. You also can listen live online.

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Happy Hour With Your Favorite Civil Liberty Orgs

6:30 PM

Location:

Roe Restaurant and Lounge

651 Howard Street

San Francisco, CA

Saturday, January 08, 2011

Adam on “The Advocate”

The Ave Maria School of Law’s Father Michael Orsi talks with FIRE Vice President of Programs Adam Kissel, who recently published “Law school gagging speech,” in the New York Post, on the school’s radio show “The Advocate.”

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