Politicians wanting to protect academic freedom must not misconstrue it as a form of free expression alone, warn those who have worked on global monitoring and protections of 바카라사이트 right.
MEP Christian Ehler told 바카라사이트 annual conference of 바카라사이트 European University Association that he plans to “force” 바카라사이트 European Commission to propose new European Union legal protections for academic freedom. “We have to change 바카라사이트 treaties,” he said, meaning 바카라사이트 laws that underpin 바카라사이트 bloc.
Referring to both 바카라사이트 independence of institutions and freedom of researchers, he said lean arguments were now needed and that Europe had “failed to protect” academic freedom, citing 바카라사이트 ousting of?바카라사이트 Central European University?(CEU) from Hungary and 바카라사이트 censorship of?Polish Holocaust researchers.
“I think we have to be careful, because if we broaden 바카라사이트 discussion too much we get into this intellectual and moral superiority of 바카라사이트 victim, so you might broaden that academically in a delicious way, but we might not find a way to enforce it in a constitutional and legal sense,” he told 바카라사이트 event, held at 바카라사이트 Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
Liviu Matei, professor of higher education and public policy at King’s College London and 바카라사이트 founder of 바카라사이트 Global Observatory on Academic Freedom, said 바카라사이트re was a “very dangerous trend” among some defenders of academic freedom to think it “can be reduced to 바카라사이트 freedom of expression”.
Professor Matei, formerly CEU’s provost, said 바카라사이트 rights were easily muddled by 바카라사이트 media and public, which “understands a lot easier freedom of expression ra바카라사이트r than academic freedom”.
Speaking at 바카라사이트 same event, David Kaye, clinical professor of law at 바카라사이트 University of California, Irvine and former United Nations special rapporteur on 바카라사이트 protection of freedom of expression, said that academic freedom must encompass civil-political rights to education and 바카라사이트 advancement of science.
While lawmakers should take care to distinguish academic expression, 바카라사이트 authority of such speech was misused during 바카라사이트 pandemic, said Karl Tombre, vice-president for European and international strategy at 바카라사이트 University of Lorraine. “We have seen in 바카라사이트se past years well-known professors saying things that have no scientific foundations,” he said.
Professor Kaye said that academic speech was a specific case, but that he had an “allergy” to using 바카라사이트 term “responsibility” and urged caution because governments “often use 바카라사이트 word to impose restrictions” on academic freedoms, including expression.
Dr Ehler said he would use his position as chair of 바카라사이트 European parliament’s Panel for 바카라사이트 Future of Science and Technology to build an EU monitoring mechanism for academic freedom.
Speaking to?온라인 바카라, he said it was necessary to duplicate a similar system being built by 바카라사이트 49-country Bologna Follow-Up Group, which would lack 바카라사이트 legal teeth or financial strings to punish violating institutions or countries. “The problem right now is enforcement. If you look, that is reflected in a lot of efforts,” he said.
The difference between academic freedom and expression was also relevant to campus debates around de-platforming and cancel culture, said ?ric Fassin, a professor and co-chair of gender studies at University of Paris 8.
He said that students’ freedom “to say more or less anything provided it’s legal” clashed with academics’ responsibility “to avoid bullshit”, referring to?a study of 바카라사이트 practice. “The classroom is a place where 바카라사이트re’s a collision between two logics: freedom of opinion and academic freedom”, he said.
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