04/14/2015 6pm-7pm
Columbia University Morningside Campus Columbia Journalism School Pulitzer Hall Lecture Hall (3rd Floor)
116th Street and Broadway, New York, NY 10027

The Poliak Lecture: “Is Freedom a Mental State?” Tim Wu in conversation with Nita Farahany and Michael Shadlen Tim Wu, the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and newly appointed head of the Poliak Center at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism discusses Cognitive Liberty with a panel of experts and analyzes the question, “Is Freedom a Mental State?”

#CJSPoliak Speakers Include:

Nita A. Farahany, Director, Duke Science & Society, Duke University

Michael Shadlen, Professor of Neuroscience, Columbia University

Introduction by Dean Steve Coll 6 to 7 p.m.

A formal reception to follow at 7 p.m. RSVP is required To RSVP, please email jschoolRSVP@columbia.edu

Click here for more information about The Poliak Center Clike here to watch the inaugural Poliak Lecture with Tim Wu

The Poliak Center, founded in 1983 with a gift from Saul Poliak 26 and his wife Janice, was created with the notion that the First Amendment is a cornerstone of freedom and liberty in the United States, and that democratic societies would be well-served by a center for the exploration, study and teaching of First Amendment issues.

Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia Law School. He is also a fellow at the New America Foundation, and a contributing editor at The New Republic. Wu’s best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he wires also about private power, free speech, copyright and antitrust. He has previously served as a senior advisor to the Federal Trade Commission, Chair of Media reform group Free Press, as a fellow at Google, and worked for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry. He was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc.), and Harvard Law School. Wu also writes regularly for the New Yorker, The New Republic and T magazine,has been recognized by Scientific American magazine, National Law Journal, 02138 Magazine, and the World Economic Forum, and has twice won the Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing.

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