Threats to Academic Freedom - Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
October 21–22, 2020
Academic freedom is, like freedom of expression, a fundamental principle of intellectual practice which is under threat today in many places. This workshop aims at developing a comparative understanding of how governments, security establishments, and big economic interests have moved to restrict academic freedom using a wide array of constitutional, legal, political and financial tools. Restrictions imposed on academic freedom have been shaping public spaces and academic institutions across the world, in liberal democracies and authoritarian regimes as well as in the so-called illiberal democracies. Comparative and connected study of these restrictions has barely begun, despite their accelerating urgency and proliferation. The workshop will also explore the particular relationship between academic freedom and freedom of expression: the first is a liberty attached specifically to Academia, whereas the second is an established human right.
This workshop will take place virtually.
Convener
Contact
Participants
Zaid
Al-Ali
Fellow
2019/2020
International IDEA
David
Armitage
Fellow
2018/2019
Harvard University
Mitchell
Ash
Fellow
1990/1991
University of Vienna
Olivier
Beaud
Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas
Pascal
Engel
École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
Dieter
Grimm
Permanent Fellow
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Zeynep
Kivilcim
Fellow
2017/2018
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Noémi
Lévy-Aksu
Hafiza Merkezi, Istanbul / European Endowment for Democracy
Libora
Oates-Indruchová
University of Graz
Sandra
Richter
Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach / University of Stuttgart
Irene
Schneider
Fellow
2018/2019
University of Göttingen
Daniel
Schönpflug
Freie Universität Berlin / Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Barbara
Stollberg-Rilinger
Permanent Fellow
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Nandini
Sundar
University of Delhi
Balázs
Trencsényi
Fellow
2019/2020
CEU, Budapest