Humanities and Social Sciences in the World: Threats against Academic Freedom 16 Sept 2020
Vilken är vår roll som forskare, lärare, ledare och administratörer när ämnen, som genusvetenskap, motarbetas eller akademiker avskedas och fängslas för sin forsknings skull? Var går gränsen mellan legitim vetenskaplig kritik och hot mot den akademiska friheten att välja ämnen, metoder och publiceringssätt?
Vilka utmaningar ställer ett alltmer polariserat politiskt landskap, med ifrågasättanden av demokratiska kärnvärden, för universitetetens arbetssätt och internationella samarbeten? Dessa frågor kommer att diskuteras i ett antal föredrag under dagen.
Konferensen erbjuder perspektiv från olika håll i världen där humanistisk och samhällsvetenskaplig forskning och utbildning inskränks och hotas av politiska krafter utanför universiteteten.
Medverkande:
Andrea Petö; Professor of Gender Studies at Central European University, Hungary
Leila Papoli-Yazdi; Archaeologist and Scholars at Risk Researcher at the University of Gothenburg; Sweden
Majid Mgamis; Assistant Professor of English Literature; Scholars at Risk Researcher at Linnaeus University; Sweden
Arun Kumar; Assistant Professor of Modern British Imperial, Colonial, and Post-Colonial History, University of Nottingham; UK
Sofie Tornhill; Political Scientist and Senior Lecturer of Gender Studies at Linnaeus University; Sweden
Amrita Ghosh; Visiting Lecturer in postcolonial Studies, Linnaeus University and visiting researcher at SASNET, Lund University; Sweden
Konferensen hålls på engelska.
Program
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
14.10 - 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.
To participate in a Zoom-conference
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:
Download the Zoom.us software on the device which you will use for the video conference (Windows, macOS, Android or iOS)
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:
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.
The authentication in the video conference is done with the email and password previously received from the conference administration.
General recommendations for using Zoom
Write your name and institution - eg. John Doe - University of Everywhere. In order to see how to do this please read this.
Keep the microphone turned off when you are not speaking, since background noise can be very distracting.
In order to talk with the moderators and other speakers try using the chat. Find instructions here.
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
Organized by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Centre for Gender Studies at Linnaeus University
