Princeton University President and legal scholar Christopher L. Eisgruber is joined by UChicago’s Tom Ginsburg to discuss the common assumptions about free speech on college campuses. Eisgruber argues that most American colleges are largely getting free speech right, with students engaging in active and open debate on difficult and controversial topics.
Simon Parkin is a British author and journalist for magazines, newspapers and websites. He is contributing writer for the New Yorker, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society His work has been featured in 'The Best American Nonrequired Reading'. He is a finalist in the Foreign Press Association Media Awards and recipient of two awards from the Society of Professional Journalists.
Evan Narcisse is the Senior Writer at Brass Lion Entertainment. He's worked as a screenwriter, producer, and narrative design consultant in video games, comic books, film, and TV, often focusing on the intersection of blackness and pop culture. As a journalist and critic, he wrote for The Atlantic, Time Magazine, Kotaku, and The New York Times, in addition to teaching game journalism at New York University and appearances as an expert guest on CNN and NPR.
Michael Bourdaghs is the Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor of East Asian Languages & Cultures. A scholar of modern Japanese literature and culture, he is the author, most recently, of A Fictional Commons: Natsume Sōseki and the Properties of Modern Literature (2020). His previous books include Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop (2012, Japanese translation 2012) and The Dawn That Never Comes: Shimazaki Tōson and Japanese Nationalism (2003).
Na’ama Rokem teaches in the Departments of Middle Eastern Studies and Comparative Literature, and is affiliate faculty in Germanic Studies and the Divinity School. She is currently chair of the Department of Comparative Literature, and has served as the faculty director of the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies. A scholar of German Jewish and Hebrew literature, she has written about the cultural history of the Zionist movement, about bilingualism and self-translation in Jewish culture, and about poetry and poetics.
Steven Rings is a music theorist whose research focuses on popular music, voice, and transformational theory. Rings’s second book, What Did You Hear?: The Music of Bob Dylan(University of Chicago Press, 2025), explores the virtues of imperfection in Bob Dylan’s music making.
Jacqueline Stewart’s research and teaching explore African American film cultures from the origins of the medium to the present, silent cinema, film spectatorship and exhibition, as well as the archiving and preservation of moving images, and “orphan” media histories –including nontheatrical, amateur, and activist film and video.
Lee Kalliroi Buchanan began woodworking at the age of seven in the Kids Carpentry program in her hometown of Berkeley, CA. Lee has a BFA in Art/Semiotics from Brown University (2000) where she studied painting and built sets for the campus theater. In 2008, Lee moved to LA where she ran the collective bespoke furniture woodshop Offerman Woodshop, while also building custom furniture for her own clients.
Nick Offerman, actor, humorist, and woodworker, is the New York Times bestselling author of Paddle Your Own Canoe, Gumption, Good Clean Fun, and Where the Deer and the Antelope Play, as well as co-author of The Greatest Love Story Ever Told, with his wife, Megan Mullally. His onscreen credits include the Emmy award-winning role of Bill in The Last of Us (HBO), Ron Swanson on NBC’s Parks and Recreation, and co-host and executive producer of NBC’s Making It.
Jason Bridges is Associate Professor of Philosophy at UChicago. His primary research and teaching areas are the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language. He also has interests in metaphysics and epistemology, the philosophy of action, the later work of Wittgenstein, and political philosophy.
