Policing Dissent on Campus: Perspectives on Protest, 'Safety' and Academic Freedom,

Speaker: Professor Annelise Orleck, Dept. History, Darmouth

Monday May 12th 2025, 12.15-13.30

Bio: Annelise Orleck teaches HIstory at Dartmouth College. She is the author of five books on labor, women's rights, immigrant and poor people's activism and the co-editor of two. Among them are We Are All Fast Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages (2018); Storming Caesars" Palace; How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty (2nd edition, 2022); Common Sense and A Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States (2nd edition, 2017); and Rethinking American Women's Activism (2014). She is the founding co-president of Dartmouth's American Association of University Professors chapter. Her fifteen minutes of fame came when, in the course of her filming police arrests of her students at a peaceful protest against genocide, riot. police knocked her down and dragged her face down on the college green on viral video 

She will be speaking about the police assaults on her and other campuses last Spring and will discuss where we she thinks we are now.