60 https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/bug/bug-2024 [Translate to English:] Wissenschaftsfreiheit heute Praktiken – Gefährdungen – Kontroversen en University of Bremen Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:18:01 +0200 Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:18:01 +0200 University of Bremen content-635206 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:47:26 +0100 https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/bug/bug-2024#c635206 <p>The 36th Bremen University Talks will focus on current practices, threats and controversies associated with academic freedom. The need for a corresponding discussion results on the one hand from tendencies of hostility towards science, the strengthening of post-factual politics and the associated tendencies of strategic intervention in the basic principles of free scientific work, and on the other hand from recent developments in the field of digital networking and changing forms of exclusion.<br /> The focus will be on the question of how and in what way academic freedom in its various dimensions (regulatory-normative, infrastructural, discursive, economic, political, ecological, practical, etc.) is currently understood as relevant and also threatened and how this affects the relationship between university and non-university publics. The situation of universities against the background of geopolitical threats will be addressed, as will the questions of how public science can and must be, what role, task and social responsibility science has, what questions arise from the perspective of the Global South, what possibilities exist for the institutional protection of scholars at risk and what limits academic freedom encounters.</p> Content content-635215 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:47:26 +0100 https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/bug/bug-2024#c635215 <p><strong>17:30 Admission</strong></p> <p><strong>18:00 hrs</strong><br /> <strong>Moderation: Prof. Dr Bernd M. Scherer, Humboldt University of Berlin</strong></p> <p><strong>Welcome address</strong><br /> Alexander Witte, Chairman of the Wolfgang Ritter Foundation</p> <p><strong>Introduction - Academic freedom today</strong><br /> Prof. Dr. Michi Knecht, Prof. Dr. Ingo H. Warnke, PD Dr. Ehler Voss<br /> Worlds of Contradiction, University of Bremen</p> <p><strong>Panel discussion</strong><br /> <strong>Universities in the crossfire of geopolitical threats</strong><br /> Prof. Dr. Shalini Randeria, Central European University, Vienna<br /> Dr. Elisabeth von Thadden, DIE ZEIT, Hamburg</p> <p><strong>20:00 Reception organised by the Wolfgang Ritter Foundation</strong></p> Content content-635214 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:47:26 +0100 https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/bug/bug-2024#c635214 <p><strong>Moderation: Prof. Dr. Bernd M. Scherer, Humboldt University of Berlin</strong></p> <p><strong>9:00 a.m. Welcome and opening</strong><br /> Prof. Dr. Michal Kucera,<br /> Vice-Rector for Research and Transfer at the University of Bremen</p> <p><strong>9:15 a.m. Public Sphere. Perspectives on the concept of Open Science and the question of how public science can and must be</strong><br /> <em>Participatory panel discussion</em><br /> Prof. Dr. Simon Meier-Vieracker, Dresden University of Technology<br /> Prof. Dr. Claudia Frick, Cologne University of Applied Sciences<br /> Dr. Heidi Seibold, Digital Research Academy Munich</p> <p><strong>11:00 a.m. Responsibility. Perspectives on the role, task and social responsibility of science</strong><br /> <em>Impulses</em><br /> Prof. Dr. Ralf Poscher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law<br /> Crime, Security and Law Freiburg<br /> Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn, Social Science Research Centre Berlin<br /> Social Research Centre (WZB)<br /> Dr. Martin Herrnstadt, University of Bremen</p> <p><strong>13:15 Internationality. Perspectives on academic freedom from the ‘Global South’ (Haiti, Senegal)</strong><br /> <em>Online discussion with plenary talk (French with German translation)</em><br /> Prof. Dr. Odome Angone, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar<br /> Prof. Dr. Cécile Accilien, University of Maryland<br /> Prof. Dr. Julia Borst, University of Bremen</p> <p><strong>15:00 Infrastructure. Perspectives on programmes for Scholars at Risk and the institutional options for their protection</strong><br /> <em>World Café (German/English)</em><br /> Dr. Marejke Baethge-Assenkamp, University of Bremen<br /> Kirsten Beta, University of Bremen<br /> Dr. Burcu Binbuğa, University of Bremen<br /> Prof Dr Simon Lewis, University of Bremen<br /> Dr. Johannes Müller, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main<br /> Dr. Nil Mutluer, University of Leipzig<br /> Holger Radke, Philipp Schwartz Initiative of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation<br /> Dr. Lydia Schmuck, Academy in Exile<br /> Prof. Dr. Susanne Zepp-Zwirner, University of Duisburg-Essen<br /> Dr. Jeiran Mogghadam Charkari, University of Duisburg-Essen</p> <p><strong>16:15 Summing up the results</strong></p> <p><strong>16:45 Closing remarks</strong><br /> Prof. Dr. Michal Kucera,<br /> Vice-Rector for Research and Transfer at the University of Bremen</p> <p><strong>17:00 End of the event</strong></p> Content