SAFS AGM May 13 & 14 2022
April 21, 2022
Mark Mercer
SAFS Annual General Meeting 2022
Friday, May 13 & Saturday May 14, 2022
Hamilton, Ontario
Homewood Suites Hotel
40 Bay St S, Hamilton, ON
Friday 13 May 2022
| Time | |
|---|---|
| 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. |
Saturday 14 May 2022
| Time | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Open letter to the Scientific American Editorial Board regarding intemperate tweets on x.com by then editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth.
Indigenous faculty members in Faculty of Social Work and the black dean accusing each other of racism
Faculty Must Complete EDI Statements to Win Grants but Only 'Correct' Statements are Successful
University of Waterloo Woke Faculty Host Conference on Academic Antagonism and Intimidation of Woke Faculty
To Jonathon Haidt, John Tomasi, the Board and Management of the Heterodox Academy (HxA)
University of Waterloo VP of Equity issues statement riddled with bizarre and contradictory evidence.
Artificial Intelligence and Equity: a perfect storm for undergraduate education
"The university is the home and sponsor of critics; it is not itself the critic."
David Haskell and William McNally Interview Charles Pincourt
Sunday May 8, 2022 7:30-9:30pm
