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SUMMARY:Academic Freedom of Expression and Academic Solidarity
LOCATION:Salón de Grados
DESCRIPTION:Participants in the roundtable will discuss experiences engagin
 g in the public from their academic position and their specific country con
 texts. The panel’s discussions underscore the creative strategies emp
 loyed by scholars to circumvent both informal and formal forms of censorshi
 p across diverse national contexts. The panelists have experience with cens
 orship and attacks on their academic freedom due to their use of freedom of
  academic and/or cultural expression. A global rise of autocracy is evident
  in European higher education, marked by mounting political and economic pr
 essures on institutions. The panel will discuss how solidarity can be forge
 d in the Southeast Asian region across national borders, and between Europe
 an and Southeast Asian higher education institutions under the spread of au
 tocracy. The roundtable format is particularly well-suited to this purpose,
  as it facilitates the exchange of experiences and the discussion of pressi
 ng issues that require the collaborative efforts of academics.\nThreats to 
 academic freedom emanate from myriad sources, encompassing economic interes
 ts and political interference, manifesting in diverse forms, including dire
 ct threats, intimidation, censorship, and bureaucratic stasis. While the li
 mitations of and attacks on academic freedom vary in different Southeast As
 ian countries, the region typically ranks low in international measurements
  of academic freedom, such as the Academic Freedom Index (measuring since 2
 020). Regardless of the extent to which academic freedom is curtailed, a co
 ncomitant negative effect is invariably observed within the research and ed
 ucation community. Moreover, academic freedom is inextricably linked to hig
 her levels of civil and political freedoms and rights in a society.\nThe ex
 tent to which academic and cultural expression regarding political matters 
 is unrestricted is a primary metric by which the status of academic freedom
  in a nation is gauged, as indicated by the Academic Freedom Index. The fol
 lowing roundtable discussion will address the possibilities for exercising 
 academic freedom both inside and outside university campuses. Discrepancies
  between legal stipulations and de facto freedoms are characteristic of aut
 ocratic countries, and Southeast Asian nations are generally found at the b
 ottom of international academic freedom rankings. Academic freedom is indis
 pensable to the quality and integrity of a nation’s higher education 
 system. It is inextricably linked to broader fundamental rights and freedom
 s in society.
URL:https://euroseas2026.org/panels/academic-freedom-of-expression-and-academic-solidarity
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