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Academic freedom & freedom of expression Global and local challenges
From: Sue Veen
Valid from: Tuesday 21 May 2024 to Wednesday 29 May 2024
Dear Colleagues,
You are invited to attend a talk with Professor Claudia Tazreiter, Proudly supported by the Challenging Racism Project.
Date: 29 May 2024 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Venue: Conf. Rm 1, Female Orphan School, Whitlam Institute, Parramatta South Campus
Title: Academic freedom and freedom of expression - Global and local challenges
Abstract: In 2020, the UN General Assembly received a report on academic freedom from the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression. Based on the report, a working group of Scholars at Risk has consulted widely and drafted 9 ’Principles for Implementing the Right of Academic Freedom’. These principles are now released to guide the protection of academic freedom that importantly also includes the rights of students and the right to education. Discussion of the principles and their application is important in also raising awareness of academic freedom for open societies and for democracy to flourish. In this seminar I discuss these principles and how they can be used to protect and promote the right of academic freedom. I will highlight opportunities and challenges these principles pose with examples from European universities as well as challenges globally.
The principles are available at: Principles-for-Implementing-the-Right-of-Academic-Freedom-ENGLISH.pdf (scholarsatrisk.org)
Bio: Claudia Tazreiter is a professor at the Institute for research on ethnicity, migration and society (REMESO), Linköping University, Sweden and conjoint professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Her research focuses on the social and affective impacts of forced and irregular migration on human rights culture, the role of civil society in social change, and visual cultures of dissent. Claudia is Sweden’s representative on the European Advocacy Committee of the global network, Scholars at Risk and is on the advisory board for the Academy in Exile. She has been visiting research at the Institute for Political Science at University Vienna (2018), Center for Place, Culture and Politics at City University New Work CUNY (2014) and the Centre for International Studies (CERI) at Science Po (2011).
Please register to attend via the link: https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/western/crp-presents-a-talk-with-professor-claudia-tazreiter
Flyer attached.
Attached document: Prof Claudia Tazreiter Talk.pdf [149177 bytes] application/pdf