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Attacks on academic freedom in Hungary are legion. The Central European University has been forced to move from Budapest to Vienna and the independence of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences has been undermined by a controversial new law increasing state control.
What does “freedom” at all mean in a country with such a short history of democracy as Hungary? And in what way is the situation in the UK after Brexit different? What happened to the beacon of liberal democracy and the institutions of higher education?
In the second talk of the Debates on Europe: Budapest & Beyond, Rüdiger Görner (professor of German with Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London) and Győző Ferencz (executive president, Széchenyi Academy of Letters and Arts, Budapest) discuss on the role of research and education in liberal democracy in Hungary and the United Kingdom.
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? Check out the full programme of the event.
? Watch the opening talk, with Timothy Garton Ash
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