Professor Are the Enemy

Event details Date: Thursday, October 1, 2026 Time: 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM Location: Law School - Faculty Lounge, Room 433 Type: Lecture / Talk / Workshop Campus: University Park Campus Department: Center for Law, History and Culture, Levan Institute for the Humanities Audience: Students, Faculty/Staff About this event The Center for Law, History and Culture, with support from the USC History Department and the Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies at USC, is pleased to be hosting a special event: Professors Are the Enemy, a discussion of the long history - and disturbing present - of the demonization of professors. Our program will commence with a short talk by the distinguished intellectual historian Martin Jay (Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor History Emeritus, UC Berkeley), which will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by David Myers (Distinguished Professor and Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair, UCLA), with discussants Kent Puckett (Ida May and William J. Eggers Jr. Chair of English, UC Berkeley), Ben Carrington (Associate Professor of Journalism and Sociology, USC Annenberg), and Nomi Stolzenberg (Nathan and Lilly Shapell Chair in Law, USC Gould.) This is an opportunity to come together to learn about where the contemporary attacks on the university are coming from and to share concerns and insights about the present (and past) predicament of higher education in the U.S., the U.K., and Europe. Official event details: https://calendar.usc.edu/event/professor-are-the-enemy