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DESCRIPTION:This two half-day seminar will gather over 20 scholars from a v
 ariety of regions and disciplines to discuss current challenges to academi
 c freedom\, emphasizing transnational developments. Four panels will discu
 ss the following themes (time is EDT / Montreal & New York time).\n\nDownl
 oad the program [.pdf] (finalized 2 June 2021)\n\nThe panels will take pla
 ce on Zoom: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/85114784769\n\nJune 9\n\n\n	Panel 1 (8
 :00-10:00) Imagining\, Defending\, Critiquing Academic Freedom will launch
  conference discussions by articulating different visions and conceptualiz
 ations of academic freedom.\n	Panel 2 (10:15-12:00) Diversity and the Democ
 ratization of Academic Freedom will explore the need to increase diversity
  and to decolonize higher education\, and to what extent academic freedom 
 can belong to certain groups or communities.\n\n\nJune 10\n\n\n	Panel 3 (10
 :00 -12:00) Between Authoritarianism and Populism: State Interference with
  Academic Freedom will discuss threats to academic freedom by states\, bot
 h traditional authoritarian and new populists.\n	Panel 4  (12:15-14:00) Eme
 rging Threats and Responses will discuss challenges to academic freedom st
 emming from the corporatization of universities\, private funding\, ideolo
 gical monitoring\, as well as other emerging threats. It will also explore
  possible avenues to address these issues.\n\n\nDescription\n\nAcademic fr
 eedom seems like it has never been as much under threat at a time when its
  meaning has never been more open to contestation. Three phenomena\, in pa
 rticular\, have contributed to shape its fortunes over the last few years.
 \n\n\n	A continued pattern of interference by states\, both traditional aut
 horitarian and new populists\, along with monitoring of universities\, req
 uirements of advance notification of events including international partic
 ipants\, discriminatory denials of visas and invasive radicalization preve
 ntion programs.\n	Challenges to the professorate have begun to manifest the
 mselves within the classroom as students demand content and pedagogy more 
 reflective of society’s diversity.\n	A range of more diffuse forces have ar
 guably constrained academic freedom. These include the continued effects o
 f corporatization of universities\, the influences of private funding\, ac
 ademic employment precarity\, austerity measures amidst budget crises\, an
 d global rankings competition.\n\n\nIn that fraught context\, the very mea
 ning of academic freedom has become less clear. It can be invoked in coded
  ways and at counter-purpose to justify greater control of universities\; 
 it can sometimes appear as little more than a reflex invocation disconnect
 ed from its origin\; and it suffers from ambiguities long associated with 
 the notion of freedom.\n\nif you have questions\, kindly write to human.ri
 ghts [at] mcgill.ca.\n\n \n
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210609
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LOCATION:Zoom: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/85114784769
SUMMARY:Academic Freedom in a Plural World: Global Critical Perspectives
URL:/law/channels/event/academic-freedom-plural-world-
 global-critical-perspectives-330872
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