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Highlights from the 2025 ACLS Annual Meeting
The American Council of Learned Societies held its 2025 Annual Meeting in Cambridge, MA, April 24-25, 2025.
ACLS hosted nearly 200 member society delegates and leaders, Associate member deans, ACLS board, fellows, and supporters from the greater Boston area for a two-day celebration of the power of humanistic scholarship and protecting scholars and fields in the current political climate.
In her Report to the Council, ACLS President Joy Connolly introduced the new ACLS Strategic Framework, which will guide the organization through 2030.
Other highlights included a fireside chat with ACLS President Joy Connolly and American Academy of Arts & Sciences President Laurie Patton; a panel on academic freedom with Jonathan Friedman, Sy Syms managing director of US free expression programs at PEN America, and ACLS member societies; presentations by scholars teaching at community colleges; and a discussion of major trends and debates in humanistic inquiry.
The meeting concluded with Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, Judith Butler delivering the 2025 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture.
