Academic freedom and freedom struggles

For more information about this event please visit:https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/49339/ This concluding seminar of Lent Term will put struggles for academic freedom in conversation with other struggles for freedom, particularly anti-slavery and anti-racism movements.  It will explore what these struggles can learn from each other and how they intersect. About this network Academic freedom is central to the research and education conditions of the university, and yet, globally, it has been in significant decline since 2013 (Lott 2023). This research network will build a community of scholars interested in understanding and advocating for the protection of our academic freedoms. It will also allow space for us to collectively define the concepts and practices of academic freedoms based on our experiences as scholars, in counterpoint to externally-derived definitions that have taken dominance in the public sphere, such as that of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023. For details of this network please visit: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/networks/academic-freedoms/