Humanities and Social Sciences in the World: Threats against Academic Freedom

• 9.00 - 10. 00 Registration and open zoom room for questions.
  
  
• 10.00 Welcome and introduction by organizers
• 10.05 Welcome by the Vice Chancellor of Linnaeus University, Peter Aronsson
• 10:10 Welcome and Introduction by Gunlög Fur, Professor of History  and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Linnaeus University
  
  
• 10.15 -11.45 Session 1: Moderated by Sofie Tornhill

• Andrea Petö: Empowering lessons learned from a lost fight for gender studies
• Leila Papoli-Yazdi: Asymmetrical distribution: Why most of Iranian university students are female?
• Sofie Tornhill: “The Trojan gender horse”: Gender equality critique in the name of academic freedom in Sweden

• 11.45 - 13.00 Lunch break. Voluntary lunch in zoom social space
  
  
• 13.00: Orla Duke: InSPirEurope

• 13.05 - 14.15 Session 2: Moderated by Amrita Ghosh

• Arun Kumar: The attack on critical thinking
• Majid Mgamis: The taboo of religious criticism in Jordan

• 14.15 - 14.30 Coffee Break
• 14.30 - 15.00 Summary: Dagmar Brunow and Nafiseh Mousavi
• 15.00 – 15.30 Voluntary after-conference mingle in zoom social space

Links to the conference zoom rooms will be e-mailed to registered participants before the conference starts.

Connecting to Zoom

If you do not already have the Zoom client installed on your computer, you will need to make the following steps to install and configure Zoom:

1. Download the Zoom.us software on the device which you will use for the video conference (Windows, macOS, Android or iOS)
2. Test the internet connection and the audio system (microphone + headphones/ speakers) and video (webcam). You can click here to test a Zoom conference meeting. 

Steps for the actual video conference:

1. Accessing the video conferencing link, in the form of https://zoom.us/j/xxxxxxxxxx, which you will find for each session. This will open the already installed application.
2. The authentication in the video conference is done with the email and password previously received from the conference administration.

General recommendations for using Zoom

1. Write your name and institution - eg. John Doe - University of Everywhere. In order to see how to do this please read this.
2. Keep the microphone turned off when you are not speaking, since background noise can be very distracting.
3. In order to talk with the moderators and other speakers try using the chat. Find instructions here.
4. In order to share your screen watch this short tutorial.
5. During a zoom conference you can give more non-verbal feedback - by raising your hand to ask for permission to speak, or by answering yes / no, etc. To see where you can access them, look at the explanatory images here.

For presenters (papers/key notes) - some tips for better technical quality in recordings

• Set your video resolution to 1920x1080. If you use a mobile phone to record, record in landscape (horizontal) format.
• Use a neutral background and record in good light.
• Place yourself slightly to the left or right of the centre of the frame, and make sure not to have too much air above your head.
• Place your camera at the same level as your head.
• Preferably, use a wired lavalier microphone plugged into your computer or phone. In case you do not have access to a lavalier, use a high-quality USB microphone or a high-quality phone headset. Try to avoid large headsets, as these do not look good on video.
• Avoid using a room witch echo or other disturbing sounds.
• Preferably, do not use a virtual background. In case you record in Zoom with a lit green screen behind you, it is ok to use a virtual background.
• Choose mp4 as your file format