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2025 Academic General Meeting of the Society for Academic Freedom

Friday, June 6, 2025 & Saturday, June 7, 2025

Location

Wilfrid Laurier University
75 University Ave W
Waterloo, Ontario

Friday, June 6

1:30 - 2:00

Registration & Coffee
Senate & Board Chambers

2:00 - 4:00

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

Cocktails (Hawk’s Nest)

5:00 - 6:30

Dinner (Hawk’s Nest)

6:30 - 8:00

Radical Reactionary: Fixing Our Broken Education System
Amy WAX, University of Pennsylvania
The Seventh Annual Chris and John Furedy Lecture on the Contemporary University
Senate & Board Chambers

Saturday, June 7

8:00 - 9:00

Registration & Coffee
Senate & Board Chambers

9:00 - 9:40

Welcome & News From SAFS

9:40 - 10:00

Introducing Free Speech Union Canada
Lisa BILDY, FSU Executive Director

10:00 - 11:00

The Difficulty of Finding “Truth” in the Truth and Reconciliation Report
Rodney CLIFTON, Frontier Centre for Public Policy; University of Manitoba
Mark DEWOLF, Independent Scholar

11:00 - 12:00

The Sanctum Menace: Why Universities Belong to the Dark Side
Bruce PARDY, Queen’s University

12:00 - 1:30

LUNCH (Dining Hall)

1:30 - 3:00

The Threats to Free Expression from within our Universities and Our Democracy
Amy WAX, University of Pennsylvania

3:10 - 3:45

Business Meeting

4:00 - 6:00

Casual Gathering (Location TBD)

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