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The conference aims to explore the evolution of the concept of academic freedom from a global and interdisciplinary perspective. To start with, it will clarify how academic freedom differs from freedom of expression.<\/p>\n

The conference will then pursue three main objectives: to assess the status of academic freedom in different geopolitical contexts; to examine its political dimensions, and lastly to question its epistemological foundations. Finally, in an era increasingly characterised by artificial intelligence, it asks what the benefits and risks of it might be for academic freedom and for the pluralism of humanistic research.<\/p>\n

An event co-organised with the Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca\u2019 Foscari University of Venice and the KIFO – <\/span>Institute for Church, Religion, and Worldview Research in Oslo.<\/p>\n

programmE<\/h5>\n
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Tuesday, 21 April 2026<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\"plus\"<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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9:30 – 10:00\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Welcome Greetings<\/b><\/p>\n

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  • Francesco Piraino (Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Ca\u2019 Foscari University of Venice)<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Laura De Giorgi (Ca\u2019 Foscari University of Venice)<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Sindre Bangstad (KIFO – Institute For Church, Religion & Worldview Research)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    10:00 – 11:00<\/span><\/p>\n

    Keynote speaker<\/b> Pippa Norris<\/b> (Harvard University), \u201c \u2018Professors Are the Enemy\u2019? Two Faces of Academic Freedom in the USA\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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    11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break<\/span><\/p>\n

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    11:30 – 12:30\u00a0 <\/span>Panel: Academic Freedom in Israel<\/b><\/p>\n

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    • Mordechai (Mordy) Miller (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), \u201cTheological Roots of Anti-Academic Sentiment in Contemporary Religious Zionism\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Nir Avieli (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), \u201cThe Impossible Academic Freedom of Israeli Critical Social Scientists: \u2018Lefty Arab-lovers\u2019 or \u2018Genocidal Maniacs\u2019?\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      14:00 – 15:30\u00a0 <\/span>Panel: Academic Freedom in Africa<\/b><\/p>\n

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      • Sindre<\/span> Bangstad (KIFO – Institute For Church, Religion & Worldview Research), \u201cAcademic Freedom vs Academic Freedom: A South African Case\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua (Africa Coalition for Academic Freedom), \u201cA Critical Review of African Documents on Academic Freedom\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Erica Bellia (University of Cambridge), \u201c \u2018The Striptease of Our Humanism\u2019: Questioning European Culture from Africa in the Early 1960s\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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        Wednesday, 22 April 2026<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
        \"plus\"<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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        10:00 – 11:30 <\/span>Panel: Academic Freedom in Russia, Iran, and in Diaspora<\/b><\/p>\n

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        • Giovanni Savino (University of Naples Federico II), \u201cUniversities and Academic Freedom in Wartime Russia: A Genealogy of Authoritarian Control\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
        • Lidia Yatluk (University of Groningen), and Sofya Smyslova (University of Cambridge), \u201cReclaiming the Right to Research: Academic Freedom, Tacit Knowledge, and Exile\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
        • Shirin Zakeri (Unitelma Sapienza University of Rome), Minoo Mirshahvald (University of Copenhagen), and Ehsan Kashfi (University of Copenhagen) \u201cAcademic Freedom Beyond the State: Diasporic Pressure, Digital Intimidation, National Identity, and Iranian Scholars after \u2018Woman, Life Freedom\u2019 \u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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          11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break<\/span><\/p>\n

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          12:00 – 13:00 <\/span>Panel: Academic Freedom in Asia<\/b><\/p>\n

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          • Ala Uddin (University of Chittagong), \u201cThe Political Economy of Knowledge: Market Forces, Funding Pressures, and the Limits of Academic Autonomy in Bangladesh\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
          • Simon Yin (Hefei University of Technology in China), \u201cAcademic Freedom in China\u2019s Hong Kong since 1997\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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            14:30 – 16:00 <\/span>Panel: Academic Freedom in Europe<\/b><\/p>\n

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            • Annelies Moors (University of Amsterdam),<\/span> \u201cPoliticizing the Academy: Academic Freedom in the Netherlands\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
            • Maja van der Velden (University of Oslo), \u201cAcademic Freedom and Academic Boycott: An Analysis of the Debate in Norway\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
            • Maryna\u00a0Lakhno (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology),\u00a0\u201cThe Invisible Governance of Knowledge: Rethinking <\/span>de facto<\/span><\/i> Academic Freedom in Switzerland\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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              Thursday, 23 April 2026<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
              \"plus\"<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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              10:00 – 11:30 <\/span>Panel: The Epistological Challenge of Academic Freedom<\/b><\/p>\n

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              • Peter Dziedzic (Harvard University), \u201cAkbarian Humanism: The Perfected Human, Perpetual Self-Disclosure, and an Islamic Epistemology of Serendipity\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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                • Joseph L. Clarke (University of Toronto), \u201cShowing, Not Saying: Academic Freedom beyond the Logocentric Paradigm\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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                  • Federico Dal Bo (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), \u201cLeo Strauss and the Post-Liberal Return to Esotericism: Academic Freedom in an Age of Compulsory Engagement\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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                    11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break<\/span><\/p>\n

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                    12:00 – 13:00 <\/span>Panel: Academic Freedom and the Impact of AI<\/b><\/p>\n

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                    • Arie Perliger and\u00a0 Randi Froude (University of Massachusetts), \u201cThe Double-Edged Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence, Digital Technologies, and the Transformation of Academic Freedom\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                    • Andrea Alessandro Gasparini (University of Oslo), \u201cRethinking the Role of Academic Libraries in the Age of ChatGPT\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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                      14:30 – 15:30 <\/span>Panel: Law and Policies for Academic Freedom<\/b><\/p>\n

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                      • Alessandra Lazzarini (University of Padua), \u201cDefining Academic Freedom in Europe: Courts, Soft Law and Integration Tools in Higher Education\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
                      • Silvia Zabeo and Dario Pellizon (Ca’ Foscari University), \u201cResearch Freedom as a Foundational Value of the European Epistemic Communities: Policy Frameworks, Stakeholder Responses, and Institutional Practices\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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                        15:30 – 16:00 <\/span>Plenary<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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