Bard College Berlin Presents

FACULTY COLLOQUIUM SERIES - Aysuda Kölemen Presents: Gendered Precarity and Academic Freedom

Most discussions on academic freedom ignore the capability dimension. Even in the absence of government oppression, academics may face pressures that prevent them from pursuing their research agendas. This talk will explore how the intersection of precarity and invisible work in academia reinforces traditional patterns of gendered division of labor, resulting in the feminization of academic precarity, and the devaluation of the academic enterprise as a whole with damaging effects on academic freedom.

Presentation and discussion by Aysuda Kölemen. Kölemen received her Ph.D. in political science at the University of Georgia, Athens, USA. She manages TSI-OSUN, a fellowship program for at-risk scholars, at Bard College Berlin. Her research examines the link between social state policies and discourses on inequality, religiosity and family. Her current work focuses on the combined threat that autocratization and precarious academic employment poses to academic freedom. She recently co-edited Academic Freedom and Precarity in the Global North: Free as a Bird with Aslı Vatansever (Routledge, 2022).

Organized by the Faculty Colloquium Organizing Team: Gale Raj-Reichert, Ewa Atanassow, Nina Tecklenburg

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Time: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm CET/GMT+1

Location: Lecture Hall

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