Ruperto Carola Ringvorlesung: Freiheit?! Die Universität als Diskursraum Ruperto Carola Ringvorlesung: Contemporary Threats to Academic Freedom
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- Monday, 21 October 2024, 18:00
- Alte Universität, Aula, Grabengasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg
- Prof. Dr. Gisèle Sapiro, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris (Frankreich), Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique
- Dialogpartner: Prof. Dr. Manfred Berg, Universität Heidelberg, Historisches Seminar
In a context when academic freedom is menaced and academics are banned in many places, it is urgent to have a collective and international reflection on this principle which is fundamental to intellectual practice. 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 transcultural study of these restrictions has barely begun, despite their proliferation. After briefly tracing back the origins of academic freedom and how it has been defined, this lecture will reflect on these contemporary challenges and threats to suggest a comparative framework of 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.

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