This reading list collates a number of articles looking at the relationship between comedy and censorship, including a recent piece by Samm Farai Monro aka Comrade Fatso
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CATEGORY: Academic Freedom
Bahrain: Free Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace
Nine Bahraini and international NGOs and the University College Union launched a campaign this week marking the 100th day of detained human rights defender Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace’s hunger strike
#SilencedOnCampus: Index magazine launch debates threats to academic freedom
The debate tackled issues ranging from safe spaces and the right to offend, to the absence of absolute freedom of speech and illegal versus legal speech
Letter: Academic freedom is under threat and needs urgent protection
With threats ranging from “no-platforming”, to governments trying to suppress critical voices, and corporate controls on research funding, academics and writers from across the world have signed Index’s open letter on why academic freedom needs urgent protection
Fear of terror and offence pushing critical voices out of UK universities
From a government crackdown on extremism to marketing departments’ concerns over branding, lecturer Thomas Docherty looks at the threats to the tradition of free discussion on campus
Shades of McCarthyism as global academic freedom challenged
Editor Rachael Jolley explains why the latest Index on Censorship magazine is focusing on academic freedom, with a look at current threats from around the worldwide, from Ukraine to the US
Summer magazine 2015: Is academic freedom being eroded?
Packed with stories from around the world, the upcoming issue of Index on Censorship magazine has a special report on academic freedom.
1 July: Silenced on campus: are our universities safe-guarding free expression?
Education, the beginning of some many roads. But if we start closing some of those avenues down, arguing that they are too dangerous or challenging, do we begin to travel in a terrifying direction?
Jodie Ginsberg: Squeezing out free speech on campus
Institutions that should be crucibles for new thinking, at the forefront of challenges to established thought and practice, are instead actively shutting down debate, and shying away from intellectual confrontation
#IndexDrawtheLine: Does extremism have a place on campus?
After strong lobbying from senior Tory peers, two private members’ debating student societies from Oxford and Cambridge universities were exempted from the controversial counter-terror ban on extremist speakers. Even though the two societies are...
Free speech on campus is a key Index on Censorship project to defend and expand freedom of speech at colleges and universities around the world