to my far left is professor john boyer, dean university of chicago college, distinguished service professor in history. next, the professor geoff stone, distinguished professor, service professor university of chicago's law school. next, professor zareena grewal, associate professor, department of american studies and religious studies in the program of ethnicity race migration from yale university. and last but not least, professor lorraine gutierrez, professor of social work and university of michigan school of social work, professor of psychology, college of literature, science and arts and the inaugural director of university of michigan school soldier works diversity, equity and inclusion initiative. and with that i would love for us to begin. professor boyer, with you. >> thank you very much. i thought i would just talk a little bit about two subjects that are of some interest to me. i became interested in the subject of academic freedom as an academic administered perspective. about 14, 15 years ago i published this -- i came to write that but because of there were a number of curren