Is free speech absolute?
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This East Midlands Salon discussion is a Battle of Ideas festival satellite event. You can buy tickets via Eventbrite.
Daniel Silveira will be interrogating Professor Dennis Hayes about the idea the free speech is absolute.
At several conferences and events in the summer, the Academics for Academic Freedom (AFAF) team had heated debates with self-declared free-speech ‘absolutists’ who wanted to restrict free speech. We decided to have this debate out in public. Vanessa Pupavac (Nottingham AFAF) will chair a discussion between Daniel Silveira (Buckingham AFAF) and Dennis Hayes (AFAF, Director) about whether free speech is absolute. AFAF believes in free speech, no ifs, no buts. Come along and bring your ‘buts’. After all, no one really believes that free speech is absolute – or do they?
