Annual Meeting

Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship

SAFS 2025 Academic General Meeting

Friday June 6 – Saturday June 7 2025

Senate & Board Chambers
Wilfrid Laurier University
75 University Avenue W
Waterloo, Ontario

Registration:

Cost: $150 for Friday, $150 for Saturday ($300 for both) which includes the session and meals (dinner on Friday and breakfast and lunch on Saturday).

Registration fees may be paid through E-Transfer to payments@safs.ca

Through Visa or Mastercard: https://safs.ca/PaymentSecurity.php

Or by cheque made out to the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship and sent to 2807 24th Avenue, Regina, SK S4S 1J7 (please email safs@safs.ca if you are mailing a cheque).

Any one who pays a multiple of $150.00 through these methods will be considered registered and contacted by the organizers.  If you are paying for others please be sure to send their details to safs@safs.ca.

Please send any special dietary requests to safs@safs.ca before May 28th.  Registration Deadline: May 22 2025.

 

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Location: Senate and Board Chambers unless otherwise indicated.

 

Friday June 6 2025

1:30 – 2:00 pm

Registration and Coffee

2:00-4:00 pm

He Who Pays the Piper: How Government Funding Impacts Research
(Symposium generously sponsored by the Institute for Liberal Studies)
Senate & Board Chambers

The Failed Experiment: Government Funding of Academic Science
J. Scott TURNER, National Association of Scholars
Title
Terence KEALEY, University of Birmingham

4:00-5:00 pm

Cocktails (Hawk’s Nest)

5:30-7:00 pm

Dinner (Hawk’s Nest)

7:30-9:30 pm

The Seventh Annual Chris and John Furedy Lecture on the Contemporary University
Speaker: 
Amy Wax, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Radical Reactionary: Fixing Our Broken Education System

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Saturday June 7 2025

8:00-9:00 am

Registration and Coffee: Senate and Board Chambers

9:00-9:40 am

Welcoming Remarks:  Robert Thomas, President, Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship

9:40-10:00 am

Speaker:  Lisa Bildy, FSU Executive Director

Introducing the Free Speech Union Canada

10:00-11:00 am

Speakers:  Rodney Clifton, University of Manitoba & Mark DeWolf

The Difficulty of Finding “Truth” in the Truth and Reconciliation Report

 

11:00 am -12:00 pm

 Speaker: Bruce PARDY, Queen’s University

The Sanctum Menace: Why Universities Belong to the Dark Side

12:00-1:30 pm

Lunch (Dining Hall)

1:30 -3:00 pm

Keynote Address

Speakers:  Amy Wax, University of Pennsylvania
Title:  The Threats to Free Expression from within our Universities and Our Democracy

3:10-3:45 pm

 

4:00 pm to 6:00pm

Business Meeting (Members Only)

 

Casual Gathering (Location TBD)

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