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In view of the entanglement of entrenched quasi-feudal hierarchies and neoliberal reforms in the so-called leading scientific countries, the 'Free as a Bird: Academic Precariat and the State of Academic Freedom in the Global North' workshop on May 18, 2021 aimed at expanding the discussion on academic freedom to the underexamined relationship between labor devaluation and critical knowledge production. For this purpose, the event brought together a number of distinguished scholars and activists working on issues related to labor precarity, political freedoms, discrimination, and intersectional inequalities in academia.
This event was organized by BCB faculty members Aslı Vatansever and Aysuda Kölemen and funded by the Philipp-Schwartz-Initiative.
00:00 Introduction
14:15 Mariya Ivancheva
(University of Liverpool): The double bind of academic freedom: state and/or market capture in UK and Venezuela
41:39 Sanaz Raji
Understanding the Nexus between Marketized Higher Education, Surveillance and the Hostile Environment in the UK
01:11:13 Daniel Mekonnen
(Geneva, Leiden): Neither in nor out: A forced migrant's view on demographic diversity of the Swiss sector of higher education and its knowledge production processes
02:05:40 Dan Hirslund
(University of Bergen): Disappearing freedoms. On intersections of career and labor in Nordic countries
02:29:00 Ana Ferreira
(CICS.NOVA, Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences, Lisbon): Embodying scientific precariousness through the narrative of "passion for science": neither academic freedom nor autonomy
02:50:46 Lisa Cerami
(University of Rochester, NY): What is tenure?
03:17:21 Colin Cameron
(Northumbria University): It's Not Much of a Surprise That So Little Changes
04:29:45 Britta Ohm
(Berlin, Heidelberg) : Political freedom and structural unfreedom: dependencies, disenfranchisement and low-cost academic labor in Germany
04:57:40 Max Kramer + Sarbani Sharma
(Free University of Berlin and University of Tübingen): Reflexivity and Temporality of Conceptual Labor in Anthropology
05:18:50 Giuseppe Acconia
(University of Padova): Academic Freedoms of Fixed-Term Researchers in Italy: Politicizing Occupational Precarity
In view of the entanglement of entrenched quasi-feudal hierarchies and neoliberal reforms in the so-called leading scientific countries, the 'Free as a Bird: Academic Precariat and the State of Academic Freedom in the Global North' workshop on May 18, 2021 aimed at expanding the discussion on academic freedom to the underexamined relationship between labor devaluation and critical knowledge production. For this purpose, the event brought together a number of distinguished scholars and activists working on issues related to labor precarity, political freedoms, discrimination, and intersectional inequalities in academia.
This event was organized by BCB faculty members Aslı Vatansever and Aysuda Kölemen and funded by the Philipp-Schwartz-Initiative.
00:00 Introduction
14:15 Mariya Ivancheva
(University of Liverpool): The double bind of academic freedom: state and/or market capture in UK and Venezuela
41:39 Sanaz Raji
Understanding the Nexus between Marketized Higher Education, Surveillance and the Hostile Environment in the UK
01:11:13 Daniel Mekonnen
(Geneva, Leiden): Neither in nor out: A forced migrant's view on demographic diversity of the Swiss sector of higher education and its knowledge production processes
02:05:40 Dan Hirslund
(University of Bergen): Disappearing freedoms. On intersections of career and labor in Nordic countries
02:29:00 Ana Ferreira
(CICS.NOVA, Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences, Lisbon): Embodying scientific precariousness through the narrative of "passion for science": neither academic freedom nor autonomy
02:50:46 Lisa Cerami
(University of Rochester, NY): What is tenure?
03:17:21 Colin Cameron
(Northumbria University): It's Not Much of a Surprise That So Little Changes
04:29:45 Britta Ohm
(Berlin, Heidelberg) : Political freedom and structural unfreedom: dependencies, disenfranchisement and low-cost academic labor in Germany
04:57:40 Max Kramer + Sarbani Sharma
(Free University of Berlin and University of Tübingen): Reflexivity and Temporality of Conceptual Labor in Anthropology
05:18:50 Giuseppe Acconia
(University of Padova): Academic Freedoms of Fixed-Term Researchers in Italy: Politicizing Occupational Precarity
