Democratizing the Danish University
EN:
Many academic movements have expressed deep discontent with the way Danish universities are run. The demands advanced by these groups include: urgent need for job security; oppressive and hierarchical structures of power; investments in unethical corporations supporting genocide; and a disregard for climate justice in strategic planning, to name a few. At the core of these unfulfilled demands lie deeply undemocratic structures that control how our university is run, who gets to make decisions and who doesn't. Are there alternatives? In conversation with three academic movements (Students Against the Occupation, Movement for a Free Academia and Scientist Rebellion), we discuss how power structures within Danish universities prevent change, and what strategies these groups are pursuing to dismantle these structures. The panel debate will be preceded by a talk by Prof John Barry (Queen's University Belfast), an expert in green political ecology and academic democratization, and the author of a recent study examining how universities could transition to being agents of unsustainability with the aid of social movements.
Program:
- Talk by John Barry: "Agents of (un)sustainability: democratising universities for the planetary crisis"
- Presentation of academic social movements in the panel: Lucas Rigillo (Students against the Occupation), Fernando Racimo (Scientist Rebellion), Maria Toft (Movement for a Free Academia)
- Panel conversation involving the audience, moderated by Salvatore Paolo De Rosa, Center for Applied Ecological Thinking
DK:
Mange akademiske bevægelser har udtrykt dyb utilfredshed med den måde, danske universiteter drives på. Kravene fra disse grupper omfatter: akut behov for jobsikkerhed; undertrykkende og hierarkiske magtstrukturer; investeringer i uetiske virksomheder, der støtter folkedrab; og en tilsidesættelse af klimaretfærdighed i den strategiske planlægning, for at nævne nogle få. Kernen i disse uopfyldte krav er dybt udemokratiske strukturer, der kontrollerer, hvordan vores universitet drives, hvem der får lov til at træffe beslutninger, og hvem der ikke gør. Findes der alternativer? I samtale med tre akademiske bevægelser (Students Against the Occupation, Movement for a Free Academia og Scientist Rebellion) diskuterer vi, hvordan magtstrukturer på danske universiteter forhindrer forandring, og hvilke strategier disse grupper forfølger for at nedbryde disse strukturer. Paneldebatten indledes med en tale af professor John Barry (Queen's University Belfast), der er ekspert i grøn politisk økologi og akademisk demokratisering og forfatter til en nylig undersøgelse af, hvordan universiteter kan overgå til at være agenter for ikke-bæredygtighed ved hjælp af sociale bevægelser.
Program:
- John Barry: "Agenter for (u)bæredygtighed: demokratisering af universiteterne i forbindelse med den planetariske krise"
- Præsentation af akademiske sociale bevægelser i panelet: Lucas Rigillo (Students against the Occupation), Fernando Racimo (Scientist Rebellion), Maria Toft (Movement for a Free Academia)
- Panelsamtale med publikum, modereret af Salvatore Paolo De Rosa, Center for Applied Ecological Thinking
Location
CSS room 1.1.02Øster Farimagsgade 5A
1353 Copenhagen