Tag: Kinzelbach

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...

The datafication of the world and the increasing availability of (geo)data opens up new opportunities for monitoring and documenting human rights violations, particularly in locations that are difficult to access due to security concerns. These advances raise technical and methodological challenges ...

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...

Prof. Dr. Katrin Kinzelbach was one of four German scholars invited to take part in this year's G7 Summit of Science Ministers in Frankfurt. She gave a keynote on academic freedom, covering individual freedom to research and teach, universities’ institutional autonomy, as well as academic integrity ...

Prof. Dr. Katrin Kinzelbach gave a presentation at the conference Fundamental Academic Values in the European Higher Education Area on 28.10.2021. This international conference was organised by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The...

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

On 11 March 2021, the updated Academic Freedom Index was published. It covers five dimensions of academic freedom and is the result of international cooperation. Around 2000 researchers from all over the world contributed assessments. Times Higher Education reported. The German Academic Exchange Ser...