Recordings of an online conference with President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins and Noam Chomsky, organised by Scholars at Risk Ireland and ALLEA on 8 June, 2021.
00:00:00 Opening Session: Academic Freedom in Global Education
00:03:49 Keynote Lecture by Antonio Loprieno (ALLEA President)
00:23:45 Q&A with Antonio Loprieno moderated by Sinead O’Gorman (Director of Scholars at Risk Europe)
00:44:20 Panel Session: Academic Freedom and Intellectual Dissent
00:49:04 Input Statements (Maeve Cooke - UCD, Christian Ehler - MEP, Roja Fazaeli - TCD, Andrea Petö - CEU, Peter-Paul Verbeek - Twente/KNAW)
01:29:08 Group Discussion moderated by Jim Al-Khalili (Royal Society)
02:16:32 Closing Session: The University in a Time of Crisis
02:18:20 Address by Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland
02:54:02 Keynote Lecture by Noam Chomsky
03:35:32 Q&A with Noam Chomsky moderated by Maria Baghramian (University College Dublin)
This conference discussd the importance of intellectual dissent and academic freedom to democratic societies in a Western, particularly European, context. The speakers and the panel discussed the scope and the limits of academic freedom in the context of political populism, neoliberalism and the exigencies of the post Covid social and educational landscape. Topics included but were not limited to:
- Academic freedom in relation to other core academic values, e.g. openness, trustworthiness, research integrity, and social responsibility
- The scope and limits of intellectual dissent and academic freedom
Ways of strengthening academic freedom in a changing university funding landscape
- The impact of social media on academic freedom
- Lessons from a global pandemic
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