Speakers
Robert Quinn
Session
✅ Included for all participants
💬 Panel (informative & conversational)
💡 Social Responsibility
At a time when many in higher education share a strong commitment to academic freedom, the urgent task is to move the conversation forward, from a shared concern to collective practice. This interactive Critical Conversation invites participants to discuss how academic freedom is currently protected and strengthened within their own institutions, and how emerging practices can respond to national and regional narratives that increasingly threaten it. Guided by experienced speakers from Scholars at Risk and the Norwegian Students’ and Academics’ International Assistance Fund (SAIH), this session will look beyond protecting academic freedom and ask how the international higher education community can conceptualise a global academic freedom agenda. Participants may discuss questions of security and freedom from outside interference, truth-seeking for the public good and the dissemination of knowledge in dialogue with society, including the responsibility to speak truth to power. Rather than a traditional panel, this session creates ample space for peer exchange, critical reflection and practical ideas for institutional action.