IMPACT Launch and Seminar

  • 21st September 2022
  • Jeffery Hall, UCL institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL, London
  • Seminar

How can universities promote academic freedom?
Insights from the front line of the gender wars

by Judith Suissa and Alice Sullivan

5.30pm to 7.30pm

Speakers:

  • Profs Judith Suissa and Alice Sullivan, authors of the pamphlet
  • Baroness Estelle Morris, former Secretary of State for Education
  • Akua Reindorf, barrister and author of the Reindorf Report
  • Prof Arif Ahmed MBE, professor of philosophy and free speech activist
  • Prof David Ruebain, pro-vice-chancellor for culture, equality and inclusion
  • Prof Michael Hand, editor of IMPACT (Chair)

Is there a crisis of academic freedom in British universities? To see that there is, say Judith Suissa and Alice Sullivan, we need only look at the suppression of debate on sex and gender. The recent experience of scholars and students wishing to discuss the material reality and political salience of sex makes complacency about academic freedom a luxury we cannot afford. In How can universities promote academic freedom?, Suissa and Sullivan offer a powerful defence of academic freedom in our universities and lay out a series of practical steps administrators can take to protect it.

​IMPACT pamphlets are published by the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain in conjunction with Wiley and are available to download free from the Wiley Online Library. Launch attendees will receive a complimentary bound copy of How can universities promote academic freedom? on arrival.

 

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