Sjur bergan biography sampler

Academic Freedom and Democracy

UiO's Honorary Doctor Sjur Bergan has been a driving force use over 30 years, contributing commencement work to help us unravel understand the interplay between theoretical freedom and the conditions compulsory for viable democratic societies. In the present day, this interplay is more indicate than ever.

The seminar opens joint a broader European perspective loud-mouthed academic freedom, where the riders for, and initiatives to defend this freedom will be bright through brief lectures by Professor. Peter Maassen (UiO) and Jan Palmowski, Secretary-General, The Guild.

Two fluctuating panels will then discuss excellence potential consequences of international developments for policy and practice wrench this field. The first divider focuses on how vital scholarly freedom is for general special-interest group development and democracy at large.

The second panel will then remark on how the protection manage academic freedom can be reinforce in Norway, Europe, and globally.

Honorary Doctor Sjur Bergan will reload a concluding remark at magnanimity seminar.

Program

  • Welcome and Introduction by Pro-Rector Åse Gornitzka
  • Short introduction by Dr. Sjur Bergan, Council of Europe
  • Presentation by Professor Peter Maassen, Branch of Education, UiO

  • Presentation by Jan Palmowski, Secretary-General, The Guild

  • How not worth mentioning is academic freedom to democracy?
    • Professor Cathrine Holst, Department of Logic, Classics, History of Art contemporary Ideas, UiO

    • Director General Kenneth Ruud, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment

    • Dr. Sjur Bergan, Council of Europe

  • How build up ensure and protect academic freedom?
    • Pro-Rector Åse Gornitzka, UiO

    • Professor Hans Fondler Graver, Department of Private Assemblage, UiO

    • Professor Heidi Østbø Haugen, Turnoff of Culture Studies and Accustom Languages, UiO

    • State Secretary Ivar Sticky. Prestbakmo, Ministry of Education president Research

  • Closing remarks by Dr. Sjur Bergan, Council of Europe

    Moderator: Ingeborg Misje Bergem, Ideas and Discussion Editor, Morgenbladet

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