[Air-l] AOIR on AUT?

[Ellis Godard]

Perhaps you misunderstand the AUT's blacklist, which itself is
political, whereas opposition to it is not. The blacklist interferes
with academic freedom, impeding the very plurality which, as you note,
the AOIR tries to advance, and inhibits international groups from
speaking equally. 

The opposition to it is a-political, and includes a wide range of
organizations such as the National Academy of Sciences, the New York
Academy of Sciences, the American Association of University Professors,
the Middle East Studies Association, the American Political Science
Association, the American Mathematical Society, and even a local chapter
of the AUT.

What part of the AOIR population would be alienated by defending
academic interaction against the encroachment of politics?

-eg 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Hunsinger [mailto:jhuns at vt.edu] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 10:24 AM
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org; ellis.godard at csun.edu
> Subject: Re: [Air-l] AOIR on AUT?
> 
> 
> we do not take stands.  fundamentally, we are a-political in 
> order to  
> allow the plurality of interesting interdisciplinary, and  
> international groups to speak equally, which is a politics in itself.
> 
> in short, there is currently no way for aoir to do anything 
> like this  
> and i don't that can change without fundamentally alienating some of  
> our population.
> On May 25, 2005, at 1:15 PM, Ellis Godard wrote:
> 
> > This seems like an appropriate topic on which AOIR, as
> > international and
> > interdisciplinary as well as academic and open minded, should take a
> > stand. What are the appropriate steps/procedure(s) thru which that
> > could/would/should happen?
> >
> > http://ellisgodard.blogspot.com/2005/05/aut-is-out-of-line.html
> >
> > -eg
> >
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Jeremy Hunsinger
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