Davis Markert Nickerson Academic Freedom Lecture

November 28, 2018
UNC professor lectures on government interference in higher ed

University of North Carolina professor Gene Nichol discussed how government and university leadership can undermine academic freedom and free speech in higher education.
November 19, 2018
Talk to consider state interference in critique of government

Gene Nichol will speak on “outside political interference with academic freedom and university-based freedom of speech” at the annual Davis, Markert, and Nickerson Academic Freedom Lecture.
October 4, 2017
Academic freedom lecturer takes on claims of climate change deniers

Climate scientist Michael E. Mann took on those who deny climate change and highlighted the importance of fighting this environmental threat during the annual Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom.
September 14, 2017
Academic Freedom Lecture to consider politics of climate change

Climate scientist and author Michael Mann will address climate-change denial and scientific evidence during the university’s annual Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom.
October 14, 2016
Academic freedom lecture explores ‘the right to be forgotten’

Personal privacy and free expression in the online world often are seen as competing interests, but they are not incompatible, a leading scholar and advocate in electronic privacy law says.