SAR Conference: ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND INTELLECTUAL DISSENT – Now Online

 

 

This conference took place on 8 June 2021 and focused on the importance of intellectual dissent and academic freedom to democratic societies in a Western, particularly European, context. The speakers and the paneldiscussed the scope and the limits of academic freedom in the context of political populism, neoliberalism and the exigencies of the post Covid social and educational landscape.

An address was given by Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland and the closing Keynote Lecture was by Noam Chomsky

You can watch the conference online HERE