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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;background-color:white"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);text-align:left;background-color:white">Academic freedom is essential to the functioning
of a university. Its principal purpose is the advancement of knowledge through teaching and research, which in turn brings enormous public benefit. </span></span>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);text-align:left;background-color:white">The Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE) Annual Public Lecture by Professor
Adrienne Stone, “Academic Freedom and Democracy” will take a close look at a second rationale for academic freedom that lies in the connections between academic freedom and democracy. It will be argued that universities play an important role in support for
democracy as independent sources of information and knowledge. In doing so, they are a valuable democratic resource for all citizens – and not just for the members of a university community.</span><br>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);text-align:left;background-color:white">In turn, however, universities themselves require a commitment to democratic government in a full sense. That is,
universities thrive in societies that are truly committed to free academic inquiry, that are prepared to wear the discomfort that challenging independent thinkers can bring. As a result, academic freedom has a constitutional dimension and scholars should conceive
of themselves and their universities as part of the infrastructure of democracy. </span></div>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);text-align:left;background-color:white">Any questions on the event? Contact Tom Montefiore via email:</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);text-align:left;background-color:white"> </span><a href="mailto:arts.cave@mq.edu.au" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" style="margin:0px;font-weight:normal;font-family:Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(166, 25, 46);text-align:left;background-color:white;text-decoration:underline">arts.cave@mq.edu.au</a><br>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);text-align:left;background-color:white">We hope you can join us online on the 3<span style="margin:0px"><sup>rd</sup> of March at 5:30pm AEDT</span>. </span><br>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);text-align:left;background-color:white">Warm regards, </span><br>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);text-align:left;background-color:white">Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE)</span></div>
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