LECTURES - The Situation for Individual Scholars Worldwide
A Week on Academic Freedom
09:15–09:30
Introduction
Professor Christina Garsten, SCAS Principal
09:30–10:45
Academic Freedom: Perspectives from Asia
Navnita Chadha Behera, Fellow, SCAS. Professor of International Relations, University of Delhi & Sahana Ghosh, Fellow, SCAS. Assistant Professor of Anthropology, National University of Singapore
11:00–12:15
Academic Freedom under Siege: Turkey’s Experience in the Age of Rising Authoritarianism
İnan Özdemir Taştan, PhD, Ankara University Institute of Social Sciences. Former Barbro Klein Fellow, SCAS. Affiliated EUME Fellow, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin
13:30–14:45
What We Talk About When We Talk About Academic Freedom: A View from the United States
Alisse Waterston, Non-resident Long-term Fellow for Programmes in Transnational Processes, Structural Violence, and Inequality, SCAS. Presidential Scholar and Professor of Anthropology Emerita, the City University of New York
15.00–16:15
The Paranoid Style and the American Academy
Michael Watts, Non-resident Long-term Fellow for Programmes on the Political Economy of Development and Development Policy, SCAS. Class of ‘63 Professor of Geography Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley. Visiting Professor, Committee on Environment, Globalization & Urbanization, University of Chicago
These events are part of A Week on Academic Freedom.
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