The 2019 TB Davie Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor Steven Salaita

The 2019 TB Davie Memorial Lecture was presented by Dr Steven Salaita - a Palestinian-American scholar, author and public speaker, on 7 August 2019.
Now in its 53rd year, this annual lecture was established to commemorate the work of Professor Thomas Benjamin Davie, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town from 1948 to 1955 and a defender of the principles of academic freedom.
The lecture is organised by the Academic Freedom Committee, who invite distinguished speakers to address a theme related to academic and human freedom.
Dr Salaita is a former holder of the Edward W Said Chair of American Studies at the American University of Beirut, and has authored several books, including Israel’s Dead Soul, Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom and Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine.
To read more on his lecture, please find our newsroom article here: www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-2...