A Week on Academic Freedom
A Week on Academic Freedom is a joint initiative by the research programme Democracy and Higher Education, Higher Education and Research as Objects of Study (HERO), and Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS).
The conference will explore the state of, and threats to, academic freedom in today´s society. All events take place in Uppsala between 20-23 October.
Events taking place at SCAS:
21 October
LECTURES:
A Dual-loop Model and Institutional Neutrality: Doing Social Research in Uncertain Times
Biao Xiang
Beyond Competitiveness? Academic Gift Culture and Its Discontents
Alexandra Urakova & Olli Pyyhtinen
23 October
LECTURES: The Situation for Individual Scholars Worldwide
Introduction
Christina Garsten
Academic Freedom: Perspectives from Asia
Navnita Chadha Behera & Sahana Ghosh
Academic Freedom under Siege: Turkey’s Experience in the Age of Rising Authoritarianism
İnan Özdemir Taştan
What We Talk About When We Talk About Academic Freedom: A View from the United States
Alisse Waterston
The Paranoid Style and the American Academy
Michael Watts
The programme is subject to change.
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