{"id":424,"date":"2015-03-15T16:38:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T16:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/councilconcerns\/?p=424"},"modified":"2015-04-29T16:40:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T16:40:04","slug":"presidents-remarks-on-open-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/councilconcerns\/2015\/03\/15\/presidents-remarks-on-open-expression\/","title":{"rendered":"President&#8217;s Remarks on Open Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President James Wagner sought the perspectives of Faculty Council members on academic expression and free expression. Wagner framed the conversation with examples including the \u201celective and self-imposed restrictions\u201d that individuals might occasionally make to facilitate discussion during difficult conversations, as well as issues raised by Commencement speaker Salman Rushdie, who as University Distinguished Professor gave a Feb. 15\u00a0public lecture\u00a0at Emory focused on freedom of expression and \u201cThe Liberty Instinct.\u201d \u201cIs there such a thing as responsibility in free expression?\u201d Wagner asked, soliciting comments from Faculty Council members. \u201cIn other words, are there limits to the practice of free expression that should be imposed from time to time to ensure a better practice of academic freedom and the safety of those who engage in it?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President James Wagner sought the perspectives of Faculty Council members on academic expression and free expression. Wagner framed the conversation with examples including the \u201celective and self-imposed restrictions\u201d that individuals might occasionally make to facilitate discussion during difficult conversations, as well as issues raised by Commencement speaker Salman Rushdie, who as University Distinguished Professor gave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2450,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-expression"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/councilconcerns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/councilconcerns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/councilconcerns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/councilconcerns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/councilconcerns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/councilconcerns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/councilconcerns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/councilconcerns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/councilconcerns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/councilconcerns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}