In November 2021, we teamed up with Matej Avbelj, member of the re:constitution Collegium and rector of New University in Ljubljana, to start a conversation within the re:constitution network about academic freedom in Europe and beyond and its intrinsic links to the state of democracy and the rule of law. For this 4th re:constitution seminar “Resisting multiple pressures – Perspectives of Academic Freedom in Europe” we invited experts who can speak from an academic but also personal perspective on what threats to academic freedom look like in different parts of the world.
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Academic Freedom in Europe
Áine Fellenz, student research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, followed the seminar for a report in the latest edition of Recht und Zugang. She reflects on the presentations and discussions from the seminar and argues for a stronger conceptualization of the term academic freedom to have a clear picture of the multifaceted attacks on academic freedom in Europe and how to tackle them.
Our seminar participants also felt that the debate could not end here, but decided to continue it by contributing to the series on academic freedom on TrafoBlog. The series fosters scholarly and intellectual exchange on questions of academic freedom and freedom of thought in Europe and across the world.
Ahlers, Anna L.: Contextualizing and Conceptualizing Debates about Academic Freedom in Europe
Kunz, Raffaela: The Digital Threat to Science and Academic Freedom
Černič, Jernej Letnar: Academic Freedom between Ideals and Daily Challenges
