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]
|