Tag: Academic Freedom

International scholarly collaboration is of great importance for understanding global developments. Researchers at FAU’s Institute of Political Science have been collaborating with the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden for five years. They participate...

On November 4, 2023, FAU celebrated a major anniversary. On this occasion, Prof. Dr. Katrin Kinzelbach from the Institute of Political Science, together with the university archivist Dr. Clemens Wachter, took a look at the founding statutes of FAU. They discovered restrictions on academic freedom th...

On October 11, 2023, Prof. Dr. Katrin Kinzelbach gave the inaugural talk in a new seminar series on Global Challenges to Democracy, organized by the Ash Center at Harvard Kennedy School in cooperation with the Carr Center for Human Rights. Her talk was entitled “Academic Freedom: Empirical Data on a...

Dr Lars Pelke presented the Academic Freedom Index on Thursday (May, 4, 2023) in a scientific talk at the European National Young Academies (ENYA) meeting 2023 in Stockholm. At the ENYA meeting, members of the National Young Academies discussed issues around academic freedom.

Prof. Dr. Katrin Kinzelbach participated in the conference Academic Freedom under Pressure? held at Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing (Academy for Political Education Tutzing) from 2-3 May 2023. She spoke about the idea and dilemmas of “militant academia” in the context of declining academic f...

Prof. Dr. Katrin Kinzelbach and Dr. Lars Pelke presented the Academic Freedom Index to parliamentarians in the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment on Tuesday (March 28, 2023) and discussed the findings of the Update 2023 . The speakers focused their presentation on global deve...

Today, the Academic Freedom Index (AFI) project presents its Update 2023, providing an overview of the state of academic freedom in 179 countries. The AFI is coordinated by researchers at the University of Gothenburg’s V-Dem Institute and the Institute of Political Science at Friedrich-Alexander-Uni...

Academic freedom is a universal human right. Yet, the 2022-release of the Academic Freedom Index (AFI) reveals that almost two out of five people worldwide live in countries where academic freedom has declined substantially over the past ten years. Countries with such declines in academic freedom in...

Professor Kinzelbach participated in a roundtable on threats to academic freedom in Asia. This event was hosted by the Association for Asian Studies and Syracuse University. A video recording is now available here: https://video.syr.edu/media/t/1_qh3wxwin