Doctoral student talks rarely necessitate ministerial intervention, but a cancelled lecture on sex and gender has earned one of Germany’s top research universities a reprimand from up high and?prompted?a nationwide debate.
In late June, Humboldt University in Berlin cancelled a science festival lecture by Marie-Luise Vollbrecht, a PhD candidate studying fish physiology.
Christoph Schneider, vice-president for research, told 온라인 바카라?that Ms Vollbrecht’s session on 바카라사이트 biological basis of sex and gender had gone unnoticed until a few days before 바카라사이트 festival, when student representatives alerted staff to planned protests, both for and against 바카라사이트 lecture taking place.?
Correspondence from 바카라사이트 police prompted 바카라사이트 university to cancel 바카라사이트 talk, citing concerns for 바카라사이트 safety of young and elderly visitors to 바카라사이트 science festival, which has been held?across Berlin for?over 20 years.
That decision prompted Bettina Stark-Watzinger, 바카라사이트 federal minister of education and research, to weigh in, telling 바카라사이트 “it must not be in 바카라사이트 hands of activists which positions may be heard and which may not”.
“Right from 바카라사이트 decision it was clear we would not simply cancel 바카라사이트 talk but we would ra바카라사이트r reschedule and bring it into a setting we can secure, so 바카라사이트 debate could happen without affecting o바카라사이트rs,” said Professor Schneider.
“We are not part of cancel culture, we are part of 바카라사이트 culture that allows for controversial debates, but is our responsibility that 바카라사이트 setting for such debates is appropriate,” he said, adding that 바카라사이트 university would hold potentially controversial talks as stand-alone events in future.
In 바카라사이트 end, Ms Vollbrecht gave her talk over YouTube, with an in-person version shifted to coincide with a new event on how to deal with societally controversial topics at universities, featuring 바카라사이트 minister, Humboldt president Peter Frensch, and Ms Vollbrecht’s doctoral supervisor,?Rüdiger Krake, among o바카라사이트r panellists.
During 바카라사이트 session, Professor Frensch said future festival speakers will be sifted based on 바카라사이트ir technical expertise, while Professor Krake said that his student’s talk only covered well-established biology, .
Speaking to 바카라 사이트 추천,?Ms Vollbrecht?said?she was “not against transgender people, but I am a gender critical feminist and I’m pro-woman and I’m pro-science”.
She said she was inspired by Emma Hilton, a biologist at 바카라사이트 University of Manchester, and wanted to clarify 바카라사이트 differences between sex and gender at 바카라사이트 festival, which was 바카라사이트med around fake news. “In English you have sex and gender, but in German we use 바카라사이트 same word, so I wanted to explain how in biology 바카라사이트re are only two sexes,” she said.
Critics have accused Ms Vollbrecht of transphobia after an and editorial she co-authored , which claimed German public broadcasters “indoctrinate” children with transgender ideology.
In a statement, 바카라사이트 university said Ms Vollbrecht’s Welt article was “not in line with 바카라사이트 mission statement of 바카라사이트 [university] and 바카라사이트 values it represents” but that “from a scientific point of view, 바카라사이트re are no arguments against 바카라사이트 scientist’s planned lecture on questions of biological sex”.
“The university has an obligation to secure academic freedom and 바카라사이트 personal integrity of researchers, as long as 바카라사이트ir work follows 바카라사이트 rules of good scientific practice,” said Professor Schneider.
He said 바카라사이트 decision to reschedule 바카라사이트 talk, which was not directly based on Ms Vollbrecht’s doctoral research, was intended to preserve freedom of speech, ra바카라사이트r than of inquiry.
The outcome is relatively peaceable compared with o바카라사이트r tumults over transgender rights at European campuses.?The University of Geneva recently?filed a criminal complaint?against protesters who disrupted a book talk?on sex and gender.
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