ISE PhD course: Challenges to Academic Freedom
Doctoral School of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University
This is a general course with relevance for all PhD students so all students who want/need to reflect on their practice as researchers and teachers in the university are welcome. Challenges to academic freedom concern all researchers.
The course aims at reflection and clarification of the role of the researcher at the university and in society, which has increasingly attained political relevance.
Course objectives
Academic Freedom, responsibility, and freedom of expression
Conformity, biases, and hidden agendas
Culture wars, identity politics and normativity of research
Funding, research requirements and commissioned research
Legislation on freedom of research in university
International and European developments of freedom research
Activist research, engaged research and academic freedom
Communication, objectivity, and subjective opinions
The Humboldtian versus the nationalist utilitarian university
Culture of the university, authorities, and daily practices of research
Tentative program:
Mandag d. 11.1: Roskilde Universitet – lokale TBA
10.00 - 10.15: Velkomst ved Torben Bech Dyrberg og Jacob Dahl Rendtorff
10.15 - 10.30: Jacob Dahl Rendtorff, RUC: Akademisk frihed og de intellektuelle
10.30 - 11.30: Gæsteoplæg
11.30 - 12.30: Frokost
12.30 - 13.30: Laura Horn, RUC: Akademisk frihed og aktivistisk forskning
13.30 - 14.30: Torben Bech Dyrberg, RUC: Cancel culture, woke ideologi og akademisk frihed
14.30 - 14.45: Kaffepause
14.45 - 15.15: Diskussion ved Jacob Dahl Rendtorff om udfordringer til akademisk frihed
Tirsdag d. 12.1: Roskilde Universitet - lokale TBA
09.00 - 10.00: Gæsteoplæg
10.00 - 11.00: Gæsteoplæg
11.00 - 11.15: Kaffepause
11.15 - 12.15: Gæsteoplæg
12.15 - 13.15: Frokost
13.15 - 14.45: Alle oplægsholdere: Paneldiskussion.