#  WGS Professor Durba Mitra On "Perspectives on Academic Freedom" Panel 

 





April 25, 2024

 

 

 WGS Professor Durba Mitra will be a panelist in the symposium **“Perspectives on Academic Freedom”** hosted by the Department of History.

 Please register to attend the event [here](https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/history-dept-landing-page/perspectives-academic-freedom).

 In 2019, alarmed by attacks on academic freedom happening simultaneously in several parts of the world (Brazil, India, Turkey, and the USA, among others), a group of faculty in the History Department decided to organize a year-long seminar series to discuss the role of academics in an age of advancing authoritarianism. The pandemic derailed our plans. The crises of the past few months have given us a new sense of urgency. How can the university remain a place of unfettered critical inquiry and expression when its mission is overtly challenged by corporate and governing interests?



 

 

 



 

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