Editing Salman Rushdie (section)

===Academic and other activities===
Rushdie has mentored younger Indian (and ethnic-Indian) writers, influenced an entire generation of [[Indo-Anglian]] writers, and is an influential writer in [[postcolonial literature]] in general.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.csulb.edu/~bhfinney/SalmanRushdie.html |title=Demonizing Discourse in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses |first=Brian|last=Finney |date=1998 |website=[[California State University, Long Beach]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000829042338/http://www.csulb.edu/~bhfinney/SalmanRushdie.html |archive-date=29 August 2000}}</ref> He opposed the British government's introduction of the [[Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006|''Racial and Religious Hatred Act'']], something he writes about in his contribution to ''Free Expression Is No Offence'', a collection of essays by several writers, published by [[Penguin Group|Penguin]] in November 2005.

[[File:Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie.jpg|thumb|left|Salman Rushdie having a discussion with [[Emory University]] students]]Rushdie was the President of [[PEN American Center]] from 2004 to 2006 and founder of the [[PEN World Voices]] Festival.<ref>{{cite news|last=Rohter|first=Larry|author-link=Larry Rohter|date=7 May 2012|title=Rushdie Brings PEN Festival to Close|work=The New York Times|url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/rushdie-brings-pen-festival-to-close/|access-date=6 August 2012|archive-date=16 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120616144053/http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/rushdie-brings-pen-festival-to-close/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2007, he began a five-year term as Distinguished Writer in Residence at [[Emory University]] in [[Atlanta]], Georgia, where he has also deposited his archives. In May 2008, he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]].<ref>[http://www.artsandletters.org/academicians2.php Academicians Database] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504085720/http://www.artsandletters.org/academicians2.php|date=4 May 2012}}, American Academy of Arts and Letters. Retrieved 26 March 2012.</ref> In 2014, he taught a seminar on British Literature and served as the 2015 keynote speaker<ref>{{cite web|date=6 October 2006|title=Salman Rushdie to Teach and Place His Archive at Emory University|url=http://news.emory.edu/Releases/RushdieProfessorship1160159900.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061206005645/http://news.emory.edu/Releases/RushdieProfessorship1160159900.html|archive-date=6 December 2006|access-date=26 March 2012|publisher=Emory University Office of Media Relations}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.emory.edu/stories/2015/05/er_commencement_rushdie_interview/campus.html|first=Kimber|last=Williams|website=Emory Report|title=Rushdie reflects on more than a decade of Emory experiences|date=7 May 2015|access-date=22 October 2019|archive-date=22 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022211650/https://news.emory.edu/stories/2015/05/er_commencement_rushdie_interview/campus.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In September 2015, he joined the [[New York University]] Journalism Faculty as a Distinguished Writer in Residence.<ref>{{cite web|date=5 March 2015|title=New Distinguished Writer in Residence: Salman Rushdie|url=https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/news-post/2015/03/05/new-distinguished-writer-in-residence-salman-rushdie/|access-date=24 December 2018|website=NYU Journalism|archive-date=24 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224121916/https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/news-post/2015/03/05/new-distinguished-writer-in-residence-salman-rushdie/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Rushdie is a member of the advisory board of [[The Lunchbox Fund]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thelunchboxfund.org/|title=The Lunchbox Fund|website=thelunchboxfund.org|access-date=5 September 2021|archive-date=6 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906163434/https://www.thelunchboxfund.org/|url-status=live}}</ref> a non-profit organisation that provides daily meals to students of township schools in [[Soweto]] of South Africa. He is a member of the advisory board of the [[Secular Coalition for America]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://secular.org/profile/salman-rushdie/|title=Salman Rushdie|website=Secular Coalition for America|access-date=31 October 2021|archive-date=31 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211031111921/https://secular.org/profile/salman-rushdie/|url-status=live}}</ref> an advocacy group representing the interests of atheistic and humanistic Americans in Washington, D.C., and a patron of [[Humanists UK]] (formerly the British Humanist Association). He is a laureate of the [[International Academy of Humanism]].<ref name="bha2017">{{cite web|title=Salman Rushdie Author and Patron of the BHA|url=https://humanism.org.uk/about/our-people/patrons/Salman-Rushdie/|access-date=7 March 2017|website=British Humanist Association|archive-date=8 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308044337/https://humanism.org.uk/about/our-people/patrons/Salman-Rushdie/|url-status=live}}</ref> In November 2010 he became a founding patron of [[Ralston College]], a new liberal arts college that has adopted as its motto a Latin translation of a phrase ("free speech is life itself") from an address he gave at [[Columbia University]] in 1991 to mark the 200th anniversary of the [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Collegium Ralstonianum apud Savannenses – Home|url=http://www.ralston.ac|access-date=11 November 2012|publisher=Ralston.ac|archive-date=16 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416012053/https://www.ralston.ac/|url-status=live}}</ref>