Important Dates

The Africa Multiple Cluster Gender and Diversity Office presents an ICDL Lecture (2-4 pm) and Roundtable (4-6 pm) on the topic of "Academic Freedom.

Please join us from 2-4 pm

for the ICDL Lecture

by Prof. Tendayi Sithole entitled

"Unmasking Liberal Academic Freedom"

Abstract: If there is a conception that academic freedom is a right and it is for everyone in the university, this is nothing but a fallacy if this conception elides the fact that the stakes a high for those who are racially marked. The racially marked, by the historical fact and its aftermath, are still at the receiving end epistemic injustice and all forms of dehumanization. If there is something that liberal academic freedom seeks to escape and even censor, is the question of racism and what will be inflated is “social justice” in its nebulous form, including the concept of redress thus positioned in ways that borders on generality. In this investigation, the conception of liberal academic freedom will be criticized for being mute on the question of antiblack racism and, on the other hand, perpetuating it by way of defending the status quo. If the liberal consensus is invested in the questions of liberty, equality, and justice, these are propagated in a form of universal applicability while at the same time making sure to silence the discourses of the racially mark, the latter who are perceived to be disturbing the order of things. It is in the spirit of that disturbance that the critique of liberal academic freedom will be undertaken in this intervention.

Please join us from 4-6 pm

for the ICDL Roundtable entitled "Academic Freedom For All"

Participants

• Prof. Tendayi Sithole
  (Political Sciences, University of South Africa, Pretoria, SA)
  
• Prof. Olajamuke Yacob-Haliso
  (African and African American Studies Brandeis University, Boston, USA)
  
• Prof. Catherine Kiprop
  (Management and Leadership, Moi University Eldoret, Kenya)
  
• Prof. Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni
  (Chair of Global Epistemologies of the South University of Bayreuth, Germany)
  
• Prof. Stefan Ouma
  (Chair of Economic Geography University of Bayreuth, Germany)
  
• Chair: Dr. Christine Vogt-William (Director of the Gender and Diversity Office, Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth, Germany)
  

Please find the flyer of the event here

his is a hybrid event:
Link:  https://uni-bayreuth.zoom.us/j/67948330883?pwd=RFZnWmJxSE1wbUlTWjJKVTVleEoxUT09

Meeting ID: 67948330883  Passcode: 201486