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TB Davie Memorial Lectures
Lectures: Full list
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Speaker A van de Sandt Centlivres C de Kiewiet Z K Matthews H F Oppenheimer Sir Robert Tredgold R H Thouless Sir Robert Birley A van Selms Nisibis E H Erikson Barbara Ward, Lady Jackson W A Visser T’Hooft Alpheus H Zulu John, Lord Redcliffe Maud Rene Dumont R Coles Juliet Mitchell A H Halsey Lord Goodman G M Budlender Martin Legassick Ivan Illich Terrence Ranger Howard Zinn Julius Tomin Helen Joseph Raymond Suttner Albert Nolan H M Coovadia E R Wolf Walter Sisulu E W Said G C Spivak C H Long E Foner O Patterson Noam Chomsky Alan Ryan Wole Soyinka Kader Asmal F van Zyl Slabbert Jonathan Jansen A C Kors A Mbembe N Chetty Robin Briggs Nadine Strossen Ferial Haffajee Jonathan Glover Max du Preez Kenan Malik Mahmood Mamdani Pumla Dineo Gqola Steven Salaita Ravi Kanbur Yunus Ballim Fran Baum |
Subject Thomas Benjamin Davie Academic freedom African awakening and the universities The conditions for progress in Africa Ideas, ideologies & idolatries Rationality & prejudice The shaking off of burdens The oldest university Insight and freedom A new history A responsible university in a responsible society The dilemma of a black South African National progress and the university University autonomy and rural development in Africa Children and political authority Women and equality Academic freedom & the idea of a university The University’s special role Looking forward Academic Struggle and The Worker’s Struggle (published not delivered) Shadow work, industrial division of toil (published not delivered) Toward a radical practice of academic freedom: the experience Academic freedom: collaboration & resistance Academic freedom in a repressive society The doors of learning & culture shall be open The freedom charter - the people’s charter in the 1980s Academic freedom: a service to the people From ivory tower to a people’s university Freedom and freedoms: An anthropological perspective The road to liberation Identity, authority & freedom: the potentate & the traveller Thinking academic freedom in gendered post-coloniality The gift of speech and the travail of language The story of American freedom The paradoxes of freedom in America Market democracy in a neoliberal order: Doctrines and reality Academic freedom: Human right or professorial privilege? Arms and the arts: a continent’s unequal dialogue Breaking with the past, planning for the future Is academic freedom still an issue in the new South Africa? Accounting for Autonomy: How Higher Education lost its Innocence The Essential Relationship of Academic Freedom to Human Liberty Race and Freedom in Black Thought Universities in a Time of Change The Knowledge Economy and Academic Freedom Some Reflections on the British and French Cases: Post-9/11 Threats to Academic Freedom Creeping Censorship and the Spearing of Freedom Universities, the Market and Academic Freedom The mediocrity of intellectual discourse: misrepresenting South Africa in the academy and beyond Free Speech in an Age of Identity Politics Decolonising the postcolonial university Between Academic Inheritance and the Urgency of Definitions The inhumanity of academic freedom Economic inequality begets academic inequality Ours is to educate, not to captivate Corporatising universities threatens academic freedom |