Webinar Resources

July 15, 2026 -- Stephan Lewandowsky, "The Authoritarian Playbook: Risk, Reality, and Opportunities to Resist Democratic Backsliding in Higher Ed"

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Resources:

• "The Anti-Autocracy Handbook"

• Trump Action Tracker

• American Sunlight Project

• S. Lewandowsky, “Trojan gold: new US “standard” is another veiled attack on science,” Science, 390 (2025), https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeb9857   

• Scharfbillig, M., Lewandowsky, S., Altay, S., Van Alstyne, M., Kozyreva, A. et al., "Fractured reality - How democracy can win the global struggle over the information space," Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2026, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/9358883 , JRC144603.

• Lysenkoism - Wikipedia

• bell hooks | National Women's History Museum  

June 3, 2026 -- Jeremy Berg and Michael D. Green, "Funding Under Pressure: Political Influence, Censorship, and the Future of U.S. Research"

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Resources:

• A Threat to the Science That Keeps Americans Healthy | AcademyHealth

• Science Rising 

• The Trump Administration Has Launched Its Biggest Threat Yet to Scientific Research. We Can Stop Them. - Union of Concerned Scientists

• The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding  

May 19, 2026 -- Brandon Turner, "Academic Freedom and Scientific Independence in a Polarized Age"

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Resources:

• Former UCLA EDI official says he was terminated over Charlie Kirk posts - Daily Bruin

• Resolution to Establish a Mutual Defense Compact for the Universities of the Big Ten

• A Blueprint for Strengthening and Transforming Higher Education | AAUP

• REACH Act Requirements - Office of the Provost | University of South Carolina

• Parents for Public Schools     

March 5, 2026 -- Nina Jankowicz, "Censorship, Disinformation, and the Fight for Academic Freedom"

Resources:

• American Sunlight Project (ASP)

  • ASP’s project tracking censorship actions taken by the Trump administration (https://trumpcensorship.com/)

  • ASP research (https://www.americansunlight.org/research), including on Russian efforts to shape large language models (https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6612cbdfd9a9ce56ef931004/t/67fd396818196f3d1666bc23/1744648558879/PK+Report.pdf)

• Information about the disbanded Disinformation Governance Board within the Department of Homeland Security that Ninca Jankowicz headed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation_Governance_Board 

• Nina Jankowicz’s Substack

• Merriam-Webster definition of "shitpost"

• Rick Anderson’s Scholarly Kitchen interview with Nina Jancowicz: 

• NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya’s public health journal, which is weaponizing open science to further specific narratives

• A January 2026 article from the Health Care Compliance Association about a research integrity issue at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/attorney-dana-farber-s-15m-settlement-2724924/ 

February 12, 2026 -- PEN America, "America's Censored Campuses"

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Resources:

• Expanding the Web of Control - PEN America 

• PEN Charter

• Ohio State University prohibits land acknowledgements under most circumstances | WOSU Public Media 

• 6 More Faculty, Staff Removed for Kirk Comments 

• Feb 9 premier of the PBS / Independent Lens documentary, The Librarians | Book Policies Documentary | Independent Lens

• PEN Writers Delegation

  • PEN America Leads Writer Delegation to Texas A&M as More Than 30 Groups Push Back on Campus Censorship,  PEN America hosts panel on Texas A&M’s campus to discuss academic freedom

• About the Silencing Science Tracker | Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

• Forbidden Words Quilt

• Federal Government's Growing Banned Words List Is Chilling Act of Censorship - PEN America

• PEN America Educational Censorship Stories Project (form for reporting)

• Snapshots of Censorship Series - PEN America

• Fired for Kirk posts, former Emory professor weighs cost of free speech. Non-paywalled article on this topic from our student newspaper, the Emory Wheel: Committee for Open Expression finds Emory violated policy in professor termination

• Campus Free Speech - PEN America

• Alliance For Higher Education

• Science Homecoming

• Yale’s big fight over sensitivity and free speech, explained | Vox

• Membership - PEN America