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Free FreeTHE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY/GRESHAM COLLEGE ANNUAL COLIN MATTHEW MEMORIAL LECTURE
A growing number of countries have so-called memory laws, ranging from the criminalisation of Holocaust denial, to prescriptions for the teaching of certain subjects, memorial days and public monuments. Which, if any, of these are justified? Which are more effective in combatting evils they are supposed to combat, based on misinterpretations of the past?
The lecturer, who has just completed a book on free speech, will argue that phenomena such as Holocaust denial are better contested by the completely free, robust exchange of scholarly, journalistic and political debate, and that the state should not use its coercive power to limit the study of history.
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2015-10-28 2015-10-28 Europe/London Free Speech and the Study of History The lecturer, who has just completed a book on free speech, will argue that phenomena such as Holocaust denial are better contested by the completely free debate https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2015/10/28/free-speech-and-the-study-of-history-64302 Museum of London,150 London Wall,London,LondonLocation
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