D. C. S. Oosthuizen memorial lectures



D.C.S. Oosthuizen Memorial Lectures (Academic Freedom lectures).  
These lectures were established in 1970, and are put on by the Rhodes University Academic Freedom Committee.  The list below is incomplete.  Please contact us on daantjieoosthuizen@gmail.com  if you can help us to complete this list, or if you are willing to share a copy of any of the missing lectures.

The date of the Helen Joseph talk is inferred from a poster for the event, which states that she was 77 at the time.

1970
Inaugural lecture
1971
Jean Sinclair

1972
?

1973
?

1974
?

1975
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1976
?

1977
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1978
Some reflections on academic freedom
1979
The university and the new foreigners.
1980
Change is not made without inconvenience
1981
?

1982
Helen Joseph

1983
Living in the Interregnum
1984
Mark Orkin
Forced to be Free
1985
Allistair Sparks

1986
?

1987
?

1988
?

1989
Jakes Gerwel

1990

1991
Black is beautiful, brown is beautiful, white is beautiful: towards a rainbow culture in a united South Africa
1992
The university and a free society
1993
Universities in crisis : a reflection on the African experience
1994
Cheryl Carolus
Reconstruction and development is not a spectator sport: what is the role of our universities?
1995
Brenda Gourley

1996
Jairam Reddy
The university in contemporary society - the South African challenge
1997
Itumaleng Mosala

1998
Dennis Davis
The new nationalism: is there a future for South African universities?
1999
Mamphela Ramphele
The responsibility side of the academic freedom debate.
2000
The university in a developing free society : challenges to autonomy and academic freedom
2001
Language Policy, Symbolic Power and the Democratic Responsibility of the Post-Apartheid University.
2002
Jonathan D. Jansen

2003
(No lecture was held)

2004
·         AndrĂ© du Toit
·         Andrew Nash
·         Charles Villa Vincencio
·         Ian Macintosh
·         The Legacy of Daantjie Oosthuizen:Revisiting the Liberal Defence of Academic Freedom
·         Dialogue Alone: D. C. S. Oosthuizen’s Engagement with Three Philosophical Generations
·         Thinking Outside the Hut
·         DCS Oosthuizen's Legacy

2005
African Universities and the Challenges of a Developmental State
2006
Chris Brink
Putting a price on academic 'freedom' (Lecture postponed, and actually delivered in 2007)
2007
Ferial Haffajee

2008
On Academic Freedom
2009
Cheryl de la Rey
Academic Freedom – A Contested Good
2010
Mac Maharaj

2011
The role of universities in a transformed post-school education and training system
2012
(No lecture was held)

2013
Academic Freedom and the Enclosure of Knowledge in the Global University
2014
Thinking Academic Freedom
2015
Free Space in the Academy

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