Ninety-fourth Annual Meeting of the AAUP

Scholars in Peril

June 12–15, 2008
Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert St., NW
Washington, DC 20005

Featured Speakers

• Adam Habib, deputy vice-chancellor of research, innovation, and advancement at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa, will speak on the history and status of academic freedom in South Africa. A renowned scholar and sought-after political analyst, Habib has repeatedly condemned terrorism and has urged governments to respond to the terror threat with policies that are consistent with human rights norms and the rule of law. Until the United States government revoked his visa in October 2006 suddenly and without explanation, he never experienced any trouble entering the United States. Habib continues to be banned from entering the country and will participate in the meeting by teleconference.
• Professor Yoannis “John” Milios of the National Technical University of Athens, who has only recently been allowed to enter the United States after extended litigation, will also speak. Professor Milios was blocked from presenting a paper entitled “How Class Works” at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in June 2006. Though he had visited the United States just three years before, upon arriving at JFK airport in New York he was detained and interrogated about his politics. After several hours, he was told that he would have to return to Athens.
• Professor Barbara Weinstein, internationally known historian of 20th century Latin America, will be the featured speaker at the Association’s recognition banquet. Professor Weinstein was president of the American Historical Association in 2007 and now serves as the Association’s Immediate Past President. She currently is Professor of History at New York University. Professor Weinstein has won numerous awards, and is the author of two books, For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo, 1920-1964 and The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920. She is co-editor of the Radical Perspectives series for Duke University Press, and served as senior editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review, the leading scholarly journal in her field, from 2002 to 2007.

Special Panels of Interest

• “Stories Your Mother (and the Dean) Never Told You: Planning Now for Future Health Security in Retirement": a new paradigm for sustaining retiree medical benefits for retiring faculty and staff at colleges and universities.  The presenter will be Linda Cool, Professor of Anthropology at Union College and Founding Director of Emeriti Retirement Health Solutions.
• “Harvesting the Grapevine”: using LGBTQ success stories to improve campus antidiscrimination policies and domestic-partner benefits. Presenters will be Charles Ford, Associate Professor of History at Norfolk State University and chair of the AAUP Committee on Sexual Diversity and Gender Identity; and Lori Messinger, Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Kansas.

Seminar

• "The 5 Habits of Highly Successful Investors": "This seminar is designed to provide the key ingredients for successful investing, to convey a fundamental knowledge of investing and to address the importance of matching suitable investments to one's preset financial goals." Download a flyer. (.pdf)

Annual Meeting at a Glance

June 12

• Capitol Hill Day
• AAUP Executive Committee meeting
• Collective Bargaining Congress meetings

June 13

• Council meeting
• Assembly of State Conferences meetings
• "The 5 Habits of Highly Successful Investors"
• "Stories Your Mother (and the Dean) Never Told You: Planning Now for Future Health Security in Retirement "
• Plenary Luncheon and Presentation: Adam Habib, deputy vice-chancellor of research, innovation, and advancement at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa
• “Harvesting the Grapevine”

June 14

• Annual meeting plenary/Council session
• Plenary Luncheon and Presentation:  Professor Yoannis “John” Milios of the National Technical University of Athens
• Recognition banquet
  Read a brief bio for banquet speaker Barbara Weinstein.

June 15

• Council meeting

(updated 5/08)