An Invitation to Freedom ‘When we don’t stand up for our rights, we’re not allowed to wonder when they’re taken away from us’. —Zsolt Enyedi, Professor of Political Science and Pro-Rector for Hungarian Affairs at Central European University Budapest, in an interview with historian Jan Hennings. For scholars and scientists, passion, curiosity, and the delight …
Only constant scrutiny can ensure that academic freedom at universities is more than a romanticised fiction. In answering the question as to what modern universities are and should be, their relationship to academic freedom has played a central role for more than two hundred years. As such, Wilhelm von Humboldt declared in 1810 that universities …
“Academic freedom” (German: Wissenschaftsfreiheit) does not refer to a single value, but to several, which often stand in each other’s way. This holds true even when we view the concept as freedom of research, apart from concerns about teaching and learning in the classroom. The expression libertas philosophandi, to which the modern term refers and …
Translator’s note: the central term of this essay is Anschlussfähigkeit, (adj. anschlussfähig), a buzzword currently common in discussions of German academia, but whose multiple connotations do not have a single English equivalent. From the verb anschließen, or to connect, most simply anschlussfähig means compatible or accessible, but at the same time it means connective, especially …
Ethnologist Silja Klepp is a self-identified “scholar-activist,” and her experience shows that staking out a clear position in one’s academic career is not necessarily harmful. How free is our scientific scholarship? Although we do have a great deal of freedom, we must not overlook the fact that scientific research is situated within the corporate world, …
Research is suffering because of disincentives that arise within science – and the grave consequences for science as a whole are already visible. Science is generally doing well in the West. A broad societal consensus still holds that science should be publicly supported. That they should operate free from state control and censorship is self-evident …
Legal scholar Anuscheh Farahat on critical trends in the support of scholarship How fully realized is the ideal of academic freedom in the discipline of jurisprudence? In this country at present, I see no acute threat to academic freedom. However, in order for scholarship to truly develop independently and freely, a number of conditions must …
The latest attacks from Turkish politicians on universities are far from the first – and they should be viewed within their larger context In Turkey, I was fired as a scholar twice. First as an Assistant Professor in the journalism department at the University of Mersin in October 2016, and then a second time …
Even in Germany, academic freedom requires improvement through long-term perspectives, reasonable visa-granting systems for foreign researchers, and in changing our thinking about how we value results In Germany, academic freedom is anchored in the statutes of our research organisations and is therefore, in theory, ensured. And yet, academia today involves an ever-lengthening career phase, wherein …
How political must scholarship be in order to remain free? A conversation between our member Jan Hennings, constitutional scholar András Jakab and political scientist Zsolt Enyedi. Jan Hennings: Academic freedom is protected under Article X, Paragraphs 1-3 of the Fundamental Law of Hungary. What does academic freedom mean to you personally? Zsolt Enyedi (ZE): For …
University clinics are under increasing financial pressure. For the next generation, this raises the question of whether conducting free scientific scholarship and clinical research simultaneously is still possible. Research physicians are privileged; they can leave academia anytime and work exclusively in clinical practice. In the local medical research and care landscape, it is even possible …
„Like a bird on the wire / like a drunk in a midnight choir / I tried in my way to be free –“ Leonard Cohen At the moment, I am working under the auspices of a research stipend at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences at …
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