At a special meeting of the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this morning, I delivered these remarks following a vote on a motion proposed by Professor Franz Ulm. A slightly longer, written version of my statement can be found here.
“Neutrality, Diversity, and the University: The Making of the Kalven Report”
Here is the recording of an MIT Dialogue across Difference on the Kalven Report and the issue of institutional neutrality that I did on October 26, 2023 in conversation with Tracie Jones-Barrett.
“The Real Intervention Haiti Needs”
A Better Way to Protect Free Speech on Campus
Taking the liberty of sharing MIT’s new Statement on Free Expression and Academic Freedom as well as my essay for the Chronicle of Higher Education on the campus free expression debate and the movement to adopt the Chicago Principles. Thank you to Leila Govi for her helpful suggestions on the essay, as well as to my friends on the MIT Ad Hoc Working Group on Free Expression who taught me most of what I know about this subject.
Rakoviad
Delighted to announce the program for the Rakoviad: Or, The Origins and Afterlives of the American Founding: A Conference in Honor of Jack Rakove, Stanford University, February 24-25, 2023.
On the constitutional void in Haiti
My essay on the ongoing constitutional crisis in Haiti as seen from the United States, for the MIT Center for International Studies précis magazine.
L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution haïtienne
Ravi d’annoncer la parution de la version française de mon livre The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution, chez Karthala, faisant partie de la collection “Esclavages” dirigée par Myriam Cottias au CIRESC de l’EHESS. Voici le lien au site web de Karthala et, pourquoi pas, au celui d’Amazon. Ici le lien à la nouvelle préface à l’édition française.
In loving memory of Said Ghachem, 1941-2021.
The obituary in the Houston Chronicle for my beloved father Said Ghachem. Rest in peace and love you always Dad.
Newton Police Reform Task Force Final Recommendations
The final recommendations of the Newton (MA) Police Reform Task Force, on which I served for the past 7-8 months along with an incredible team led by Sonja Spears, have just been published and can be found here.
Supporting an amusement park for children in Haiti
Dear friends,
The Centre Haïtien de Recherche et d’Actions pour le développement (ChrAD) is a Haitian nonprofit organization dedicated the promotion of research and local community development, run by the historian Jean Fritzner Etienne, one of Haiti’s leading scholars of the colonial and revolutionary periods and an authority on the Catholic Church in Saint-Domingue/Haiti. CHrAD is raising money to support the building of an amusement park for children in Gressier (located south of the capital of Port-au-Prince) who have been traumatized by gang warfare in the Haitian capital and the permanent political unrest in the country. The initial fundraising campaign is being hosted by the Global Giving Accelerator. If the campaign can raise $5,000 by June 26, 11:59pm, it will receive a permanent place on the Global Giving website which will greatly facilitate the project’s long-term fundraising prospects. Please consider giving in any amount you can to support this worthy cause: the link to make a donation is here.
With thanks for your consideration,
Malick Ghachem