6 november 2019
Date: Wednesday 6 November
Time: 15:15–18:00
Venue: Lecture hall Dragonen, University of Gothenburg, Sprängkullsgatan 19, Göteborg
The symposium is free of charge. Refreshments and a light snack are included.
Registration (below) is mandatory.
Organisers: The Academies Human Rights Committee, V-Dem Institute and The Young Academy of Sweden
From left to right, top row to bottom: Angelika Sjöstedt Landén, Staffan I. Lindberg, Alev Özkazanç and Arne Jarrick, Johanna Wiklund, David Brax, Karolina Catoni and moderator Sebastian Westenhoff. Click to zoom. Photo: Annacarin Aronsson, Markus Marcetic/YAS, Yunus Ozkazan, Marcetic/RSAS, PaulinaWesterlind (Brax), Johan Wingborg (Catoni), Erik Thor/Young Academy of Sweden (Westenhoff).
Academic freedom is shrinking as a part of the ongoing trend that includes the rise in populism and political oppression. Being a vital part of democracy, the ability of universities to pursue research questions freely must be defended. Some countries and research topics are currently hotspots, receiving more pressure than others. At the World Science Day symposium, we scrutinize and discuss the ongoing challenges to academic freedom.
In 2018 the symposium ‘The Shrinking Academic Freedom in Europe’ was arranged together with The Swedish National Commission for UNESCO. Panel, from the left: Richard Sannerholm, Astrid Söderbergh Widding, Beatrice Crona and Andrea Pető. Click to enlarge. Photo: Erik Thor/Young Academy of Sweden
The World Science Day for Peace and Development, celebrated every year on 10 November, was established by UNESCO in 2001 with the aim of highlighting the important role of science in society and the need to engage the wider public in debates on emerging and important contemporary issues relevant to science. In 2018 the Young Academy of Sweden arranged the symposium The Shrinking Academic Freedom in Europe together with the The Swedish National Commission for UNESCO.
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