Academic freedoms represent the foundation of the ethics of the university community and a strong cohesive factor, because they connect universal and individual ethical principles. The experience of the strengthening of autocratic tendencies in Serbia shows that any external limitation of academic freedom echoes through the community of students, researchers and professors, encouraging both resistance and reflexive reaction. Three fragments of repression show the mechanisms that the regime applies in an effort to nullify the idea of public education in Serbia. This danger is real. In circumstances in which both civil and academic freedoms are simultaneously exposed to the pressure of totalitarian uniformity, and social and institutional frameworks are increasingly subordinated to the government, intellectual, individual and collective capacities are activated to oppose various forms of single-mindedness, lethargy and conformity.
Programme:
19:00 – Welcome
19:05 – Public Lecture by Professor Vladan Đokić
19:30 – Panel discussion with Professor Pieter Troch, moderated by Professor Fabienne Bossuyt, co-director of the Eureast Platform.
20:10 – Q&A
20:30 – Closing
This event is organised in cooperation with the Eureast Platform.