Annual Meeting

Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship

SAFS 2024 Academic General Meeting

Friday

Gunnery Ballroom
Delta Hotels London Armories
325 Dundas Street
London, Ontario

Saturday

First Floor, Room 3345
Somerville House
Western University
London, Ontario

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Location:

Gunnery Ballroom,
Delta Hotels London Armories 
325 Dundas Street
London, Ontario

Friday 10 May 2024

2:-00-2:45 pm

Social Time and Registration

2:45-4:00 pm

Speakers:   TBD

Panel Discussion:  The Limits of Academic Freedom

4:00-4:15 pm

Break

4:15-5:15 pm

Speaker:   Eric Kaufmann, University of Buckingham | HxD Academy 

The Third Awokening:  a 12-Point Plan for Rolling Back Progressive Extremism

 

5:30-7:00 pm

Dinner

7:30-9:30 pm

The Sixth Annual Chris and John Furedy Lecture on the Contemporary University

Speaker:  
 Elizabeth Weiss, San Jose State University 
Title: Burying Dissent — Anthropology’s Funeral

 

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Location:

First Floor, Rm. 3345
Somerville House
115 Richmond Street
Western University
London, Ontario

Saturday 11 May 2023

8:00-9:00 am

Registration and Coffee

9:00-9:15 am

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

9:15-10:20 am

Speaker:  Daniel Page, New College of Florida  

Inclusion Through Exclusion:  A Grave Upheaval to STEM in Canadian Universities

10:30-11:35 am

Speaker:  Michael Dudley, University of Winnipeg

The Shakespeare Question:  From Academic Taboo to Academic Freedom

 

11:45-1:00 pm

Lunch

1:00-2:05 pm

Speakers:  Frances Widdowson, Paul Viminitz and Jonah Pickle

The Charter Challenge against the University of Lethbridge

2:15-3:45 pm

Keynote Address

Speakers:  Elizabeth Weiss, San Jose State University
Title:  Burying Dissent:  A Global View of Repatriation Laws and Ideology

4:00-4:45 pm

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