Friday 17 May 2013
Coleridge Room
Jesus College, Cambridge
Jesus College, Cambridge
Should fascists and/or racists be given a platform? Does denial of platform deprive racists of freedom of speech? Should that freedom be protected? Liberal conventional wisdom tends to answer most, or all, of these and related questions in the affirmative. This workshop will critically engage with the liberal conventional wisdom and challenge the assumptions underpinning it.
Programme
| Morning Session | |
| Chair: Priya Gopal | |
| 10.30 - 11.30 a.m. | Caleb Yong (Oxford) |
| Liberal Rights, Free Speech, and Hate Speech | |
| 11.30 - 12.30 p.m. | Nicholas Vrousalis (Cambridge) |
| Hate Speech and Inequality | |
| Afternoon session | |
| Chair: Chris Thompson | |
| 2.00 - 3.00 p.m. | Lorna Finlayson (Cambridge) |
| Free Speech as Liberal Fiction | |
| 3.00 - 4.00 p.m. | Sebastian Nye (Cambridge) |
| No-platform, Speech and Speech Acts | |
