BUG 2024
? CHRISTINA KUHAUPT
? CHRISTINA KUHAUPT
? CHRISTINA KUHAUPT
? CHRISTINA KUHAUPT
? CHRISTINA KUHAUPT
? CHRISTINA KUHAUPT
? CHRISTINA KUHAUPT
? CHRISTINA KUHAUPT
? CHRISTINA KUHAUPT
? CHRISTINA KUHAUPT
The topic
The 36th Bremen University Talks will focus on current practices, threats and controversies associated with academic freedom. The need for a corresponding discussion results on the one hand from tendencies of hostility towards science, the strengthening of post-factual politics and the associated tendencies of strategic intervention in the basic principles of free scientific work, and on the other hand from recent developments in the field of digital networking and changing forms of exclusion.
The focus will be on the question of how and in what way academic freedom in its various dimensions (regulatory-normative, infrastructural, discursive, economic, political, ecological, practical, etc.) is currently understood as relevant and also threatened and how this affects the relationship between university and non-university publics. The situation of universities against the background of geopolitical threats will be addressed, as will the questions of how public science can and must be, what role, task and social responsibility science has, what questions arise from the perspective of the Global South, what possibilities exist for the institutional protection of scholars at risk and what limits academic freedom encounters.
Opening evening at the Kunsthalle Bremen - Thursday, 21 November 2024
Moderation
Prof. Dr. Bernd M. Scherer, Humboldt University of Berlin
Welcome speech
Alexander Witte, Board of the Wolfgang Ritter Foundation
Introduction - Academic freedom today
Prof. Dr. Michi Knecht, Prof. Dr. Ingo H. Warnke, PD Dr. Ehler Voss
Worlds of Contradiction, University of Bremen
Panel discussion
Universities caught in the crossfire of geopolitical threats
Prof. Dr. Shalini Randeria, Central European University, Vienna
Dr. Elisabeth von Thadden, DIE ZEIT, Hamburg
Programme
Thursday, 21 November 2024
Opening evening at the Kunsthalle Bremen
17:30 Admission
18:00 hrs
Moderation: Prof. Dr Bernd M. Scherer, Humboldt University of Berlin
Welcome address
Alexander Witte, Chairman of the Wolfgang Ritter Foundation
Introduction - Academic freedom today
Prof. Dr. Michi Knecht, Prof. Dr. Ingo H. Warnke, PD Dr. Ehler Voss
Worlds of Contradiction, University of Bremen
Panel discussion
Universities in the crossfire of geopolitical threats
Prof. Dr. Shalini Randeria, Central European University, Vienna
Dr. Elisabeth von Thadden, DIE ZEIT, Hamburg
20:00 Reception organised by the Wolfgang Ritter Foundation
Friday, 22 November 2024
Conference at the Atlantic Grand Hotel Bremen
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Bernd M. Scherer, Humboldt University of Berlin
9:00 a.m. Welcome and opening
Prof. Dr. Michal Kucera,
Vice-Rector for Research and Transfer at the University of Bremen
9:15 a.m. Public Sphere. Perspectives on the concept of Open Science and the question of how public science can and must be
Participatory panel discussion
Prof. Dr. Simon Meier-Vieracker, Dresden University of Technology
Prof. Dr. Claudia Frick, Cologne University of Applied Sciences
Dr. Heidi Seibold, Digital Research Academy Munich
11:00 a.m. Responsibility. Perspectives on the role, task and social responsibility of science
Impulses
Prof. Dr. Ralf Poscher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
Crime, Security and Law Freiburg
Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn, Social Science Research Centre Berlin
Social Research Centre (WZB)
Dr. Martin Herrnstadt, University of Bremen
13:15 Internationality. Perspectives on academic freedom from the ‘Global South’ (Haiti, Senegal)
Online discussion with plenary talk (French with German translation)
Prof. Dr. Odome Angone, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
Prof. Dr. Cécile Accilien, University of Maryland
Prof. Dr. Julia Borst, University of Bremen
15:00 Infrastructure. Perspectives on programmes for Scholars at Risk and the institutional options for their protection
World Café (German/English)
Dr. Marejke Baethge-Assenkamp, University of Bremen
Kirsten Beta, University of Bremen
Dr. Burcu Binbu?a, University of Bremen
Prof Dr Simon Lewis, University of Bremen
Dr. Johannes Müller, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Dr. Nil Mutluer, University of Leipzig
Holger Radke, Philipp Schwartz Initiative of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Dr. Lydia Schmuck, Academy in Exile
Prof. Dr. Susanne Zepp-Zwirner, University of Duisburg-Essen
Dr. Jeiran Mogghadam Charkari, University of Duisburg-Essen
16:15 Summing up the results
16:45 Closing remarks
Prof. Dr. Michal Kucera,
Vice-Rector for Research and Transfer at the University of Bremen
17:00 End of the event