TB Davie Memorial Lecture

The annual TB Davie Memorial Lecture on academic freedom was established by University of Cape Town to commemorate the work of Thomas Benjamin Davie, vice-chancellor of the university from 1948 to 1955 and a defender of the principles of academic freedom.[1]

Past speakers

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Year Speaker Subject
1959 A van de Sandt Centlivres Thomas Benjamin Davie
1960 Cornelis de Kiewiet Academic freedom
1961 Z. K. Matthews African awakening and the universities
1962 Harry Oppenheimer The conditions for progress in Africa
1963 Sir Robert Tredgold Ideas, ideologies & idolatries
1964 Robert H. Thouless Rationality & prejudice
1965 Sir Robert Birley The shaking off of burdens
1966 A van Selms Nisibis The oldest university
1968 Erik Erikson Insight and freedom
1969 Barbara Ward, Lady Jackson A new history
1971 W A Visser T’Hooft A responsible university in a responsible society
1972 Alpheus H Zulu The dilemma of a black South African
1972 John, Lord Redcliffe Maud National progress and the university
1973 René Dumont University autonomy and rural development in Africa
1974 R Coles Children and political authority
1975 Juliet Mitchell Women and equality
1976 A H Halsey Academic freedom & the idea of a university
1977 Lord Goodman The university's special role
1978 Geoff Budlender Looking forward
1979 Martin Legassick Academic Struggle and The Worker's Struggle (published not delivered)
1980 Ivan Illich Shadow work, industrial division of toil (published not delivered)
1981 Terrence Ranger Toward a radical practice of academic freedom: the experience
1982 Howard Zinn Academic freedom: collaboration & resistance
1982 Julius Tomin Academic freedom in a repressive society
1983 Helen Joseph The doors of learning & culture shall be open
1984 Raymond Suttner The freedom charter - the people's charter in the 1980s
1986 Albert Nolan Academic freedom: a service to the people
1986 Hoosen Coovadia From ivory tower to a people's university
1990 E R Wolf Freedom and freedoms: An anthropological perspective
1990 Walter Sisulu The road to liberation
1991 E W Said Identity, authority & freedom: the potentate & the traveller
1992 G C Spivak Thinking academic freedom in gendered post-coloniality
1993 C H Long The gift of speech and the travail of language
1994 E Foner The story of American freedom
1996 O Patterson The paradoxes of freedom in America
1997 Noam Chomsky Market democracy in a neoliberal order: Doctrines and reality
1999 Alan Ryan Academic freedom: Human right or professorial privilege?
2001? Wole Soyinka Arms and the arts: a continent's unequal dialogue
2002 Kader Asmal Breaking with the past, planning for the future
2003 Frederik van Zyl Slabbert Is academic freedom still an issue in the new South Africa?
2004 Jonathan D. Jansen Accounting for Autonomy: How Higher Education lost its Innocence
2006 Alan Charles Kors The Essential Relationship of Academic Freedom to Human Liberty
2007 Achille Mbembe Race and Freedom in Black Thought
2009 Nithaya Chetty Universities in a Time of Change[2]
2010 Robin Briggs The Knowledge Economy and Academic Freedom
2011 Nadine Strossen Some Reflections on the British and French Cases: Post-9/11 Threats to Academic Freedom
2012 Ferial Haffajee Creeping Censorship and the Spearing of Freedom
2013 Jonathan Glover Universities, the Market and Academic Freedom[3]
2014 Max du Preez The mediocrity of intellectual discourse: misrepresenting South Africa in the academy and beyond[4]
2015 Kenan Malik Free Speech in an Age of Identity Politics[5]
2017 Mahmood Mamdani Decolonising the postcolonial university[6]
2018 Pumla Dineo Gqola Between Academic Inheritance and the Urgency of Definitions[7]
2019 Steven Salaita The inhumanity of academic freedom[8]
2020 Ravi Kanbur Economic inequality begets academic inequality[9]
2021 Yunus Ballim Ours is to educate, not to captivate[10]
2022 Fran Baum Corporatising universities threatens academic freedom[11]
2023 Sakhela Buhlungu University of Fort Hare – a tale of academic freedom and institutional autonomy[12]
2024 Dire Tladi The Narrative as the Enemy of Freedom of Thought[13]

References

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  1. ^ Rousseau, Jacques (2015-08-04). "Identity politics, authority and freedom of speech". Daily Maverick. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  2. ^ tessievb (2008-10-15). "UCT invites Chetty to give freedom lecture". The Witness. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  3. ^ "Meddling markets threaten academic freedom, says expert". www.news.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  4. ^ "'Our freedom is shrinking' - Max du Preez". www.news.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  5. ^ "'Diverse societies should not curtail free speech'". www.news.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  6. ^ "Mamdani returns". www.news.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  7. ^ "'Retain, protect and defend academic freedom'". www.news.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  8. ^ "'Freedom requires suffering and resoluteness'". www.news.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  9. ^ "'Economic inequality begets academic inequality'". www.news.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  10. ^ "'Ours is to educate, not to captivate' – Yunus Ballim". www.news.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  11. ^ "Corporatising universities threatens academic freedom". www.news.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  12. ^ "University of Fort Hare – a tale of academic freedom and institutional autonomy". www.news.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  13. ^ "58th TB Davie Memorial Lecture by Judge Dire Tladi". www.news.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 2024-09-20.
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