{"id":46065,"date":"2025-04-25T21:15:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T21:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=46065"},"modified":"2025-04-25T21:15:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T21:15:45","slug":"online-discussion-democratic-knowledge-under-attack-trump-vs-academic-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=46065","title":{"rendered":"Online Discussion &#8220;Democratic Knowledge under Attack: Trump vs. Academic Freedom&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When? Tuesday, 29 April 2025 | 17:00-18:30 (CEST) | 8 a.m. (Pacific), 11 a.m. (Eastern)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where? Online via Zoom &#8211; link below<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No registration required<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uni-regensburg.zoom-x.de\/j\/65728464869\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zoom Link<\/a>&nbsp;| 65728464869<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>100 days into the second Trump administration, a panel of scholars based in the US and Germany will shed light on the assault on higher education and what this means for students, professors and the public alike. The discussion will examine how and why aggressive state intervention is impacting academic fields and institutions, freedom of research, international collaboration, and ultimately the public knowledge landscape and perceptions of social justice.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From scrutinizing course content and auditing scholars\u2019 social media to restricting research themes, funding, and academic mobility, the state is tightening its grip on intellectual inquiry and structures of academic scrutiny and knowledge production. Some methods are crude \u2013 such as keyword bans turning \u201cwomen\u201d and \u201ccolonialism\u201d into research taboos \u2013 while others fit a broader Trumpist strategy of retreating from global engagement, such as cutting USAID funding removing hundreds of millions of dollars and hundreds of staff from universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This online panel \u2013 with Astrid B\u00f6ger (Hamburg), John Connelly (Berkeley), Nicole Hodges Persley (Kansas), and Jan Kubik (Rutgers) \u2013 will discuss what it is like working at or collaborating with universities targeted by the U.S. Department of Education\u2019s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) for supposed \u201crace-exclusionary practices\u201d and \u201cracial preferences and stereotypes in education.\u201d Drawing parallels to past and present authoritarian regimes and embedding current dynamics in the history of US higher education and research, the conversation will illuminate the consequences for individuals and institutions, students, faculty, and staff, and the future of international collaboration and democratic knowledge production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Panelists:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slm.uni-hamburg.de\/iaa\/personen\/boeger-astrid.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Astrid B\u00f6ger<\/a> | University of Hamburg | Professor of American Studies<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/history.berkeley.edu\/john-connelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John Connelly<\/a> | University of California, Berkeley | Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of European History\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/provost.ku.edu\/people\/nicole-hodges-persley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nicole Hodges Persley<\/a> | University of Kansas | Vice Provost of Community Impact and Professor of American Studies and African and African American Studies<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/polisci.rutgers.edu\/people\/department-directory\/details\/1622-jankubik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jan Kubik<\/a> | Rutgers University | Distinguished Professor of Comparative Politics<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Chairs:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/leibniz-ios.de\/en\/people\/details\/ulf-brunnbauer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ulf Brunnbauer<\/a> | Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS), Regensburg | Director &amp; 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