TB Davie Memorial Lectures

 
Kenan Malik 
13 August 2015
Free Speech in an Age of Identity Politics
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Max du Preez 
28 August 2014
The mediocrity of intellectual discourse: misrepresenting South Africa in the academy and beyond
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Prof Jonathan Glover 
25 July 2013
Universities, the market and academic freedom
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Ferial Haffajee 
02 August 2012
Creeping censorship & the spearing of freedom
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Prof Nadine Strossen 
04 August 2011
Post-9/11Threats to Academic Freedom

 
Robin Briggs 
12 August 2010
Academic Freedom and the Knowledge Economy: Some Reflections on the British and French Cases

 
Nithaya Chetty 
14 August 2009
Universities in a Time of Change

 Prof Alan Charles Kors 
16 August 2006
Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
The Essential Relationship of Academic Freedom to Human Liberty

 
Jonathan D. Jansen 
26 August 2004
Dean of Education: University of Pretoria
Accounting for Autonomy: How Higher Education lost its Innocence

 Dr Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert 
October 2003
Is Academic Freedom Still an Issue in the New South Africa?
40th TB Davie Memorial Lecture

 
Kader Asmal - 23 September 2002
MP Minister of Education
Thinking Freedom: Breaking with the Past, Planning for the Future