Joshua Dunn, executive director of the University of Tennessee Institute of American Civics
The thirteenth annual Dr. Richard Gruetzemacher Constitution Day Lecture Series At University of Tennessee Chattanooga, titled “The First Amendment, the Academy and the Media: Restoring a Marketplace of Ideas,” will be help on Wednesday, Sept. 13 from 7:30-9 p.m. at the Tennessee Room, University Center.
The general public, the UTC community, and educators and students from a variety of schools and colleges in the region are invited to attend.
The event may be streamed live at https://livestream.com/utc/constitutiondaylecture2023.
Joshua Dunn, PhD, University of Virginia, is the primary speaker, but the event is also a symposium. John, “Jack” Zibluk, formerly an award-winning journalist, and now an accomplished academic, will respond to Professor Dunn’s comments, and members of the audience may address questions to one or both speakers.
For more information, and to reserve seats, contact the Center for Reflective Citizenship at crc@utc.edu or 423-425-5603.
About Joshua Dunn
Professor Dunn is the executive director of the Institute of American Civics at the Howard H. Baker School for Public Policy and Public Affairs. His research and teaching interests are in constitutional law and history, education policy, federalism and freedom of speech and religion. Prof. Dunn’s columns on education reform appear regularly in the journal Education Next. Prof. Dunn’s research and commentary have also been featured in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times. Previously, he was executive director of the Center for the Study of Government and the Individual at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Prof. Dunn was also a professor and chair of the UCCS department of political science. He began his teaching career at the College of William & Mary, where he was a fellow in contemporary history, public policy and American politics at the Miller Center of Public Affairs in Charlottesville, Va. Visit https://bakercenter.utk.edu/people-institute-for-american-civics/josh-dunn/ for more information about Professor Dunn.
About John B. "Jack" Zibluk
John B. “Jack” Zibluk, PhD, Bowling Green State University, is Masengill Professor of Communication, teaches media history (incorporating a unit on the First Amendment), environmental communication, mass media and society, publication design and other courses at UTC. His research interests are media literacy, narrative visual storytelling, media law and media ethics. A self-described "recovering journalist," he was a newspaper reporter and editor in Connecticut, and continues to balance an academic career with professional journalism endeavors. Prof. Zibluk was a photojournalist, columnist and editor for the Memphis Commercial Appeal, with columns appearing in the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. As ethics columnist for News Photographer magazine, he won the National Press Photographers Association Garland "educator of the year" award in 2005. He also was chosen as the 2002 faculty fellow at National Geographic magazine, where he served as a scholar in residence. Prof. Zibluk is also president-elect of the UTC faculty senate. For more information about Prof. Zibluk, visit: https://www.utc.edu/sites/default/files/2020-11/zibluk.pdf.
John B. “Jack” Zibluk