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Academic Freedom and Politics, a conference and volume focused on the current situation of universities and the educational system generally seeking to find ways for educational institutions, their networks, and allies to analyze and oppose the repressive policies and practices at schools and universities. The repressive policy in Turkey is in the foreground.
Friday, December 8, 2017
09.00 – 10.00 Registration
10.00 – 10.30 Opening
Halis Yıldırım (Munich, Organzing Committee)
Latife Akyüz (Frankfurt am Main, Academics for Peace)
Reiner Keller (Augsburg, German Sociological Association / DGS)
10.30 – 12.30 First Session: Academic Freedom in Turkey
Eylem Çamuroğlu Çığ (Bayreuth): The Meaning of Academic Freedom After the Peace Petition
Günes Gümüs (Ankara, Turkey): Purge at University as a Means of Repression in Turkey
Mehmet Ugur (London, England): State Tutelage and the Defense of Academic Freedom in Turkish Higher Education: What Role for International Solidarity?
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch Break
13.30 – 15.00 Second Session: Academic Freedom and Politics
Anna Hollendung (Bremen): Arendt on Academic Freedom and Plurality
Anna M. Kola (Toruń, Poland): The Citizens of Academia as Polish Form of Academic Revolution
Clyde Forsberg (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan): The Problem of Neo-Ottomanism (Bonapartism) and 'Academic Freedom' in the New Turkey
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee Break
15.30 – 17.00 Third Session: Academic Freedom in the World
Anita Rampal (New Delhi, İndia): Transformative Education for Freedom, Empathy and Agency
Martin Vialon (Oldenburg): Education, Enlightenment and Liberation as a Universal Duty
Michael Reder (Munich): Research as Radical (Social) Criticism. Comments on Political Solidarity and Academic Freedom
15.30 – 17.00 Fourth Session (Parallel Session): Trade Unions in Academia
Andreas Keller (Frankfurt am Main, GEW)
Rob Copeland (London, University and College Union) (requested)
Sakine Esen Yilmaz (Cologne, Egitim-Sen)
17.00 – 17.30 Coffee Break
17.30 – 19.00 Fifth Session: Precarization in Academia
Tebessüm Yılmaz (Berlin): Living in Limbo: Being a Doctoral Student in Times of Oppression
Ekrem Düzen (Biefeld): The Re-policization of Universities in Turkey on the Axis of "Native and National` Culture
Serdar M. Değirmencioğlu (Brussels, Belgium): The Assault on Academic Freedom and the Failures of Mainstream Scholarship
17.30 – 19.00 Sixth Session (Parallel Session): Solidarity with the Persecuted Academics and the Role of Political Foundations
Murat Çakır Frankfurt am Main (RLS) (requested)
Nina Locher Berlin (Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung)
Saturday, December 9, 2017
09.00 – 10.30 Seventh Session: Academic Freedom and Society
Mustafa Şener (Bamberg): Neoliberalizm, Akademik Özgürlük ve Sendikal Mücadele: Mersin Üniversitesi Örneği
Andreas Zick (Bielefeld): Right-Wing Populism, the New Right and Their Relationship to Science
Stephan Lessenich (Munich): Matters that Matter: Critical Sociology and Academic Practice
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.00 Keynote: Tariq Ali (London, England)
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 – 14.30 Eight Session: The Armenians in Turkey - 1915 and Its Aftermath
Talin Suciyan (Munich): The Armenians in Turkey: A Century of Survival
Mihran Dabag (Bochum): Das Leben mit dem Genozid
Nazan Maksudyan (Berlin): Auctions of Sorrows: Armenian Genocide Survivors, Philanthropy, and Cinema
Melanie Altanian (Bern, Switzerland) & Jeanette Ehrmann (Giessen): From Genocidal Collaboration to Relational Recognition: The Past and the Present of the Armenian Genocide
14.30- 15.00 Coffee Break
14.30 – 16.00 Ninth Session: Solidarity Academies
Zeynep Kıvılcım (Berlin): We are the Crisis of Neoliberal University and Proud of It: Solidarity Academy in Germany
Ahmet Kerim Gültekin (Dersim, Turkey) - ( Via Internet): Alternatif Akademi Tartişmalari Için Öneriler Dersim Dayanişma Akademisi Deneyimi
Kamuran Akın: Looking at Solidarity Academies as Practices of Commons
Pinar Emine Donmez & Anıl Duman (Budapest, Hungary): Rethinking Academic Freedom in The Era Of Neoliberalism: Reflections from Hungary and Turkey
14.30 – 16.00 Tenth Session (Parallel Session): The Kurdish Issue
Ismail Küpeli (Bochum): The 'Kurdish Question' From the Perspective of the Turkish State Historiography
Giuseppe Acconcia (Milan, İtalia): The Kurds of Syria: From Popular Committees to Fighting Units
Mustafa Polat (Berlin) / Zeynep Kıvılcım: The Kurdish University Students and the Peace Process
16. 00 – 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 – 17.30 FORUM: The Future of Academic Freedom
16.30 – 16.50 Warren Montag ( Via Internet) After the Hannah Arendt Center Controversy: How can We Effectively Engage with Racism and the University Today
Organization: Department of Sociology at the LMU
Eine Veranstaltung der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Kooperation mit der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung und der GEW.