Citizens of the World. Academic Freedom in a Global Perspective – 60 Years after President John F. Kennedy’s Speech at Freie Universität Berlin
2023 not only marks the 75th anniversary of Freie Universität Berlin's founding, it is also the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's iconic speech on the FU campus. Keeping in mind his statement that this university “must be interested in turning out citizens of the world” and his idea of universities as incubators of freedom, this event will look at issues of academic freedom from a historical perspective as well as within today's contexts – and think about how to shape academic freedom in the future.
The keynote lecture on "The Historical Roots and the Future of Academic Freedom“ by Prof. Dr. Anita Traninger, professor of Romance Studies at FUB, 2023 winner of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz prize and Vice Academic Director of the Oxford Berlin Research Partnership, will be complemented by a personal account of Prof. Dr. Dr. Conrado Hübner Mendes, professor of Constitutional Law at the Universidade de São Paulo, on “When democracies cede to defend academic freedom”.
For more information and to register (required) please check https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/internationalweek/termine/termine-iw-23/230626-jfk-und-traninger.html
Time & Location
Jun 26, 2023 | 04:15 PM - 07:15 PM
Henry-Ford-Building, Garystr. 35, 14195 Berlin