Overview
Ithaca College
celebrates
Constitution Day
annually
Constitution Day Events
Constitution Day is celebrated on September 17th each year. That is the day the Constitution was signed during the Constitutional Convention. More information and events can be found on the Consitution Day website of the National Constitution Center. The following guides were created in support of Constitution Day events at Ithaca College:
- Mighty Times: The First Amendment & Civic Action (9/19/17, Guest Speaker: Mary Beth Tinker of the free speech in schools case Tinker v. Des Moines School District, 393 US 503, 1969).
- Rights of the Accused: Fact or Fiction? An In depth look at Constitutional Protections of Criminal Defendants (9/14/16, Guest Speakers: Tom Kertscher, reporter from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel who coverd the Steven Avery trial in the Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer; Brad Rudin, J.D., Assistant DA for Tompkins County; Joe Joch, J.D., trial lawyer).
- The Carceral State: Race, Citizenship and American Life in the 21st Century (9/17/15, Guest Speakers: Maria Gottschalk and Adolph Reed, Jr.; moderated by Carlos Figueroa)
- Targeted Killings, the Constitution, and You: U.S. Drone Policy and Citizens' Rights (9/17/14, Guest Speaker: Jens David Ohlin; moderated by Carlos Figueroa)
- Reproductive Justice: Celebrating and defending Roe at 40 (9/24/2013, Guest Speaker: Zillah Eisenstein and her daughter, Dr. Stumbar).
- Wikileaks, Bradley Manning and the First Amendment (9/27/2012, Guest Speaker: Shayana Kadidal) see also: The Constitution: The First Amendment
- Citizens United: Corporate Speech, Political Ads and the Law Guide done in collaboration with Maura Stephens, Associate Director, Park Center for Independent Media (9/27/2011, Guest Speaker: John Nichols)
- Immigration: Constitutional Issues created for: Crossing the Boarder: Where does the Constitution Stand(9/27/2010, Panelists: Luis Argueta, Shaianne Osterreich, Mary Jo Dudley). The event included an excerpt form Luis Argueta's documentary, abUSed: The Potsville Raid
- Gay Marriage: Legal and Constitutional Issues created for: Approaching the Constitutional Threshold: Ending the Heterosexual Marriage Monopoly? (9/23/2009, Panelists: Mariette Geldenhuys, L. Richard Stumbar, and Sybil Conrad).
- Struggles for Racial Justice. (9/17/2008: Speakers: Martin Brownstein, Shelley Keeling, Beth Harris, and Bryna Fireside). This event honored the works of Professor Emeritus Harvey Fireside who taught in the Department of Poltics. It included with a screening of The Jena 6.
Summer 2018: The library moved to new library guide software; guides are slowly being migrated from the old site to the new one. If you would like to see one of the guides, please contact me: cmichael@ithaca.edu