As part of its Israel initiative, the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute has published a podcast conversation with Prof. Cary Nelson, former president of the American Association of University Professors, about the role of critical theory in the response within higher education to the Hamas atrocities of October 7. This conversation follows TPPI’s webinar on January 7 on the same subject with Nelson, Abe Silberstein, and Manuela Consonni. The podcast is available in both video and purely audio forms. TPPI will be publishing podcasts featuring open-ended conversations with individual participants in its Israel initiative webinar series throughout the year.
Cary Nelson was President of the American Association of University Professors from 2006 to 2012, and he is emeritus professor of English and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A scholar of modern American poetry and critical theory, he is the author of Revolutionary Memory: Recovering the Poetry of the American Left (2001), Manifesto of a Tenured Radical (1997), and No University Is an Island: Saving Academic Freedom (2010), among many other works. His edited and co-edited books include Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture (1988) and Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities (1994). His contributions to American academic life are the subject of Michael Rothberg and Peter Garrett, eds., Cary Nelson and the Struggle for the University: Poetry, Politics, and the Profession (2009).
Gabriel Noah Brahm, Director of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute Israel Initiative, is Professor of English and World Literature at Northern Michigan University and currently serves as Visiting Researcher in Political Science at Tel Aviv University. With Cary Nelson, he coedited the 2014 volume, The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @Brahmski.
This post is part of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute Israel initiative. For more information about this initiative, please visit the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute website.
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As part of its Israel initiative, the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute has published a podcast conversation with Prof. Cary Nelson, former president of the American Association of University Professors, about the role of critical theory in the response within higher education to the Hamas atrocities of October 7. This conversation follows TPPI’s webinar on January 7 on the same subject with Nelson, Abe Silberstein, and Manuela Consonni. The podcast is available in both video and purely audio forms. TPPI will be publishing podcasts featuring open-ended conversations with individual participants in its Israel initiative webinar series throughout the year.
