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FREE INQUIRY AT RISK: UNIVERSITIES IN DANGEROUS TIMES
Berlin Agenda
In 1933, at a time when academic freedom and free inquiry were eliminated in universities in Germany and soon thereafter in other parts of Europe, the first president of The New School created the University in Exile as a way of protecting these core values and as a haven for rescued European scholars and intellectuals. In commemoration of the 75th anniversary of that founding, the New School is convening a symposium in Berlin, Germany on "Free Inquiry at Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times." Academic leaders and leading academics from the USA, Europe and the Middle East will examine contemporary threats to free inquiry and academic freedom created by rapid globalization, international collaboration, massification, corporate partnerships, increasing numbers of franchises, regime change, and other conditions of duress that are reshaping universities around the world. This conference carries on a longstanding tradition of U.S.–German intellectual exchange exemplified by the New School for Social Research.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19th, 2009 |
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10:30 am – 11:30 am
CELEBRATION: Presentation of honorary degree to Chancellor Angela Merkel
Laudatory speaker: Fritz Stern, University Professor Emeritus, Columbia University
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1:30 pm – 4:30
SYMPOSIUM: Free Inquiry at Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times
SESSION 1: The Future of Universities and the Fate of Free Inquiry and Academic Freedom
What are the effects of economic stress, tension over national security and globalized power?
Markus Baumanns, Executive Vice President, Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius ZEIT Foundation; Chairman of the Executive Board, Bucerius Law School
Kurt Biedenkopf, Chairman, Hertie School of Governance (Germany's first Professional School for Public Policy); former Minister-President, Free State of Saxony
Jonathan Cole, John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University, Provost and Dean of the Faculties, Emeritus, Columbia University
Bob Kerrey, President, The New School; former U.S. Senator from Nebraska, USA
Anatoli Mikhailov, Founding Rector, European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania
Moderator: Benjamin Lee, Senior Vice President for International Affairs, The New School
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20th, 2009 |
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10:00 am – 12:30 pm
SYMPOSIUM: Free Inquiry at Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times
SESSION 2: Universities Under Conditions of Duress
What are the internal and external stresses that impact commitments to academic freedom and freedom of inquiry?
Shlomo Avineri, Professor of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Craig Calhoun, President, Social Science Research Council; University Professor of the Social Sciences, New York University
Alan Ryan, Warden of New College, Oxford; Professor of Politics, University of Oxford
Moderator: Hans-Peter Krüger, Professor of Practical Philosophy, University of Potsdam
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