2008 Annual Symposium

Monday, May 5, 2008

University of Connecticut
West Hartford campus

Long-time New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the new Freedom for the Thought That We Hate, will be featured speaker at a May 5 forum -- The First Amendment: How Free Are We? in West Hartford.

The Milton Sorokin Symposium, a joint effort of the University of Connecticut School of Law and CFAR, the Center for First Amendment Rights, will be held in the auditorium of the University of Connecticut West Hartford campus, 1800 Asylum Avenue between Trout Brook Drive and North Main Street, at 7 p.m. on Monday May 5.

Also on the program will be Chris Finan, activist, historian and leader of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression and of the National Coalition Against Censorship. He is the author of the critically acclaimed From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: The Fight for Free Speech in America.

Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School and winner of the American Bar Foundation award as 2008 Legal Scholar, will moderate. She is an expert in open courts, and supplied testimony to Congress on the Sunshine Act now pending.

Lewis and Finan will autograph copies of their own books. A dessert reception will follow the program.

The event is free, and seating is on a first come first serve basis.

Directions:

1. From I-84 take exit 43 and bear right on the ramp.
2. Take a right into Park Rd
3. Take an immediate left onto Trout Brook Drive.
4. Pass signals at Blvd, Memorial Dr, Farmington Avenue, and Fern St.
5. To drop people off: Take a left at the signal on to Asylum Avenue and then a right in to the driveway. Drop guests off at the side rear entrance or at the front entrance near the stairs.
6. To park: Go straight on Trout Brook through the light at Asylum in order to park in the lot to your right part way down the block.
7. Cross Trout Brook at the crossing light. Bear left on the walkways across the campus to the larger Auditorium building on your right. There are entries from the rear, the side and the front near the steps. The easiest walking would be to take the side east rear entry and you will be right in the auditorium.