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Three Ukranian authors, including Maria Tumarkin – who’s made a powerful statement – have withdrawn from Adelaide Writers Week after harsh criticism of the Ukranian president by a participating author.
The ability of professors to freely teach and write about controversial topics without fear of retribution is nothing new.
Calls have erupted to cancel two writers from Adelaide Writers’ Week – including from South Australia’s Opposition leader. Why? And are they justified? Denis Muller weighs the evidence.
Defenders of free speech are often the same people who seek to silence those they do not happen to agree with.
Considered a pioneer of “Black Studies à la française”, Ndiaye’s appointment comes at a time when issues in race and gender have divided the French political class and public opinion.
Many Black audiences are justifiably weary of works about their community told from white perspectives. But authorship isn’t always black and white.
As Western sanctions seek to isolate Russia, they also perversely reinforce the country’s mythic view of itself as a special place that outsiders want to destroy.
Religion has been a laughing matter since the middle ages.
Privileged people don’t get to unilaterally decide that their behaviour isn’t racist. Real change must involve more humility (I’m looking at you, Joe).
Society has moved to a place where everyone is held accountable if their jokes are found offensive.
Cancel culture is what is left when people who have caused harm fail to actively accept responsibility and work to repair that harm.
Bad laws, political tribalism and cancel culture – philosopher Arthur Prior was describing similar things in the 1950s, and his challenge is just as relevant today.
Cancel culture has exploded due to social media’s amplifying powers, society’s deep divisions and difficulties redressing longstanding inequities.
The public is much less extreme in its views than you’d suspect
Excommunicating a church member, like ‘canceling’ someone on social media, serves to cleanse the body politic of behavior deemed damaging, suggests a scholar of political theology.
Philosopher Peter Singer has helped launch a new, pseudonymous journal for the discussion of unpopular views. Will this be a boon for free inquiry, or a way for researchers to shirk responsibility?
A peace studies expert explains a technique for resolving conflict that she says is more effective and less divisive than public shaming.
Media coverage of the recent Dr. Seuss controversy are rooted in both a lack of awareness of the challenges and realities of maintaining collections and a false understanding of history.
If humans only translate what it is familiar to them, something essential is lost. The art of translation requires the permission to transcend borders and make mistakes.
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Deputy Director, Institute for Ethics, Governance & Law. President, Australian Association for Professional & Applied Ethics., Griffith University
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, Deakin University
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Professor of Philosophy, La Trobe University
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Emeritus Professor, Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Policy Institute, King's College London
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Lecturer in Philosophy, University of St Andrews
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Monash Intercultural Lab and National Convenor of the Asian Australian Studies Research Network, Monash University
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Course coordinator, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Professor of Russian Studies, Tufts University
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Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution and Director of the Center for Conflict Studies, Middlebury
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PhD candidate, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, Griffith University
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Assistant Director and Associate Professor, Curatorial Studies, Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture, Carleton University
