In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement this session will probe the origins, character, and impact of the Berkeley student revolt of 1964. It will also explore the various entry points to this movement, ultimately empowering educators to share and teach about the Free Speech Movement in their own respective classrooms. The session will feature a panel discussion featuring Bettina Aptheker, who was that movement's most prominent woman leader, NYU Social Studies Professor Stacie Brensilver Berman, Social Studies teacher and Edward R. Murrow high school Assistant Principal Ryan Mills, and NYU Steinhardt professor of Social Studies Education, Robert Cohen a historian of the Free Speech Movement.

The event is free, but RSVP is required.

• Bettina Aptheker, Distinguished Professor Emerita, UC Santa Cruz, co-leader of the Berkeley  Free Speech Movement, 1964-1965
  Bettina Aptheker is Distinguished Professor Emerita, Feminist Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz. She held a UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, and was the first holder of the Peggy & Jack Baskin Foundation Endowed Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies (2017-2021). Bettina co-led the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley 1964-65, was a leader of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, and co-led the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis (1970-1972) that organized a transnational movement for her freedom. Bettina has written extensively on the Free Speech Movement, including in her memoir, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech & Became a Feminist Rebel (2006), and in The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s, edited by Robert Cohen and Reginald Zelnik (2002). Bettina’s essay was titled, “Gender Politics and the FSM: A Meditation on Women and Freedom of Speech.” Her most recent book is, Communists in Closets: Queering the History, 1930s-1990s (2022).
• Robert Cohen, NYU Social Studies and History Professor, biographer of the Free Speech Movement's famed orator, Mario Savio
• Stacie Brensilver Berman, NYU Social Studies Professor
• Ryan Mills, Assistant Principal and  Social Studies Teacher, Edward R. Murrow High School, Brooklyn, NY