AAUP calls off boycott conference

by E Wayne Ross on March 21, 2006

Inside Higher Ed: AAUP calls of conference boycott

In the end, no one will be going to Bellagio.

The American Association of University Professors in February postponed an international conference on academic boycotts that was scheduled to take place that month in Italy. Both the participant list for the invitation-only session and the materials distributed for the session had come under fire. AAUP officials defended the invite list (which was criticized as anti-Israel by some) and apologized for including in conference packets an anti-Semitic article published in a magazine affiliated with Holocaust deniers.