In recent years we have seen the building momentum of actions, protests and occupations expressing the desire for social change and equality. These are the loud and noisy face of a much broader engagement and individual choice that many people make: to speak critically and fearlessly about small and large issues despite the personal risk this may entail. Assembly’s kaupapa is to interrogate the concept and practice of fearless speech as it occurs across many issues and forms of speaking.

In presenting Assembly ST PAUL St Gallery is embracing one of the primary instructions for universities in the New Zealand Education Act (1984), that they “accept a role as critic and conscience of society.”

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