Friday, May 13 & Saturday May 14, 2022
Hamilton, Ontario
Homewood Suites Hotel
40 Bay St S, Hamilton, ON
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2:00-4:00 | The Great Vaccine Mandate Debate--Bruce Pardy v TBA |
4:00-5:00 | Cocktails |
5:00-6:30 | Dinner |
6:30-8:00 | The Chris and John Furedy Lecture “Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters” Steven Pinker (Harvard University) Dr Pinker will give his presentation by Zoom. The Furedy Lecture is free and open to everyone, however the dinner is for registered attendees only. |
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9:00-10:00 | Registration, and Mark Mercer, President, Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship: Welcome and news from SAFS |
10:00-11:00 | “Who decides what is ‘Misinformation’ and ‘Disinformation’? Some parallels between the German Democratic Republic and Canada,” Christina Behme (Philosophy, Kwantlen Polytechnic University) |
11:00-12:00 | “The Evolution of the Safe Environment Argument,” Paul Viminitz (Philosophy, University of Lethbridge) |
12:00-1:30 | Lunch |
1:30-3:00 | Keynote Address “Not For Us to Say: Working Through (and Past) the Conflation of Radicalism with Inquiry,” John McWhorter (Linguistics, Columbia University). Dr McWhorter will give his presentation to the room by Zoom |
3:10-3:45 | Business meeting |