Academic Freedom. Conceptualisation, Contestations and Constitutional Challenges.

Schedule

Thu Feb 09 2023 at 01:45 pm to Fri Feb 10 2023 at 04:00 pm

Location

Novotel Budapest Danube | Budapest, BU

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SCRIPTS Cluster of Excellence Project in Berlin, WZB Global Constitutionalism and ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences cordially invites you to their jointly organized workshop titled "Academic Freedom. Conceptualisation, Contestations and Constitutional Challenges."
The workshop aims to examine the content of academic freedom as a democratic and liberal norm and examine patterns in its justification and contestation. First, it examines the emergence of academic freedom, its spread and its evolution as a global and regional norm. Then the workshop takes a closer look at the dynamics and causes of contestation, as well as legal strategies of resistance in the East Central European region.
PROGRAM
DAY 1
Thursday 9 February 2023
13:45 Opening remarks
Balázs Majtényi (ELTE University)/Gábor Zoltán Szűcs (ELTE University)
14:00-15:30 Panel One: Academic Freedom and the Liberal Script
Chair: Kriszta Kovács (WZB Berlin Social Science Center, ELTE University)
What is the Point of Academic Freedom?
Mattias Kumm (WZB Berlin Social Science Center, New York University)
Academic Freedom: Regional, Liberal, Global?
Tanja Börzel (Freie Universität Berlin)
Discussants: Anna Unger (ELTE University), Gábor Attila Tóth (Humboldt Fellow)
15:30-15:50 Coffee break
15:50-17.20 Panel Two: Academic Freedom Over Time and Space
Chair: Mattias Kumm
How Norm-entrepreneurs at the United Nations Made Free Science a Human Right?
Katrin Kinzelbach (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
The Constitutional Codification of Academic Freedom Over Time and Space
Janika Spannagel (Freie Universität Berlin)
Discussants: Ágnes Kövér (ELTE University), Balázs Majtényi

DAY 2
Friday 10 February 2023
9:30-11:00 Panel Three: Academic Freedom at the Regional Level 1
Chair: Katrin Kinzelbach
Returning to China: Academic Freedom in Hong Kong
Hualing Fu (University of Hong Kong)
Academic Freedom as a Legal Concept in Europe
Kriszta Kovács
Discussant: Lilla Farkas (ELTE University), Tamás Ziegler (ELTE University)
11:00-11:20 Coffee break
11.20-12:50 Panel Four: Academic Freedom at the Regional Level 2
Chair: Tanja Börzel
Constitution-making, Democratisation and Links with Academic Freedom in Africa
Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua (University of Ghana)
The Latin American Tradition of University Autonomy and Its Evolution in the Constitutional Law of Chile
Andrés Bernasconi (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
Discussants: Orsolya Salát (ELTE University), Katrin Kinzelbach
12:50-13:50 Lunch break
14:00-15:30 Panel Five: Contestations of Academic Freedom
Chair: Janika Spannagel
Authoritarian Governance of Higher Education in Eastern Europe: Reconstructing a European Counter-Culture
Tamás Ziegler
The Challenge to Academic Freedom in Hungary
Andrew Ryder (ELTE University)
Discussants: Zsolt Körtvélyesi (ELTE University), Mária Heller (ELTE University)
15:30 Closing remarks: Tanja Börzel, Mattias Kumm
REGISTRATION
The event is open to the public, but the number of participants is restricted. To register, please email by January 31, 2023 to [email protected].
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Where is it happening?

Novotel Budapest Danube, Bem rakpart 33-34.,Budapest, Hungary

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