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Academic Freedom, Transformation and Reconciliation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

James H. Mittelman
James H. Mittelman*
Affiliation:
University of the WitwatersrandJohannesburg, South Africa 14 August 1996
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Administration, Staff, Students, and Workers,

It gives me great pleasure to be with you tonight.

I thank you for inviting me to give this annual memorial lecture.

Type
Research Article
Information
African Issues , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , 1997 , pp. 45 - 49
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 1997 

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James H. Mittelman is professor in the School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C. His most recent books are, as editor and contributor, Globalization: Critical Reflections (Lynne Rienner, 1996) and, with Mustapha Kamal Pasha, Out from Underdevelopment Revisited: Changing Global Structures and the Remaking of the Third World (St. Martin’s and MacMillan, 1997).

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Notes

1. I owe a debt of gratitude to my hosts in the Department of Sociology at the University of Witwatersrand, where I served as Visiting Professor in July and August, 1996. Special thanks to Glenn Adler, Belinda Bozzoli, Eddie Webster as well as to the students who invited me to give the Feetham Memorial Lecture.

2. This speech was delivered on August 14, 1996, as the Richard Feetham Memorial Lecture on Academic Freedom in Africa, an annual event at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, since 1959, when Chancellor Richard Feetham and many colleagues refused the government’s order, under the Separate University Education Bill, to segregate the University. (Previously, Wits and the University of Cape Town were “Open Universities,” and admitted students without regard to race or color.) When the Bill became Act in 1959, thousands of students and staff marched through the streets protesting the State’s attempt to enforce apartheid in the universities. Other speakers in the Feetham lecture series have been, inter alia, Robert Kennedy, Alistar Sparks, Bishop Desmond Tutu, and Goban Mbeki.

3. Some passages in this section are adapted from James A., Caporaso and James H., Mittelman, “The Assault on Global Education,” PS: Political Science & Politics, 21, 1 (Winter 1988) pp. 36–44 Google Scholar; and James H. , Mittelman, “Academic Freedom, the State and Globalization,” in Mamadou, Diouf and Mahmood, Mamdani, eds., Academic Freedom and Democratic Struggle (Dakar: Council for the Development of Economic And Social Research in Africa, 1994), pp. 141-9Google Scholar.