Venue
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The Seminars will be held in videoconference live on Zoom.
To receive the link for the webinars please register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XpiIiVywQciY9qw-s0pRfQ
The Seminars will also be streamed on the Reset DOC’s Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/resetdoc
The program follows Cenral European Summer Time (GMT +02:00).
Program
Tuesday, 25 May
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2.00 PM – 2.20 PM
Welcome
Tiziana Lippiello | Rector of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Giancarlo Bosetti | Chairman Reset-Dialogues on Civilizations
2.20 PM – 2.30 PM
Introduction
Volker Kaul: Free Speech and the Problem of Truth
2.30 PM – 3.15 PM
Nadia Urbinati: How Absolute is Mill’s Principle of “Absolute Freedom of Opinion and Sentiment on All Subjects, Practical or Speculative, Scientific, Moral or Theological”?
Chair: Volker Kaul
3.30 PM – 5.00 PM
Bhikhu Parekh: Regulating Free Speech
Stephen Macedo: Lost in the Marketplace of Ideas: Rethinking Free Speech After Trump
Chair: David Rasmussen
5.15 PM – 6.45 PM
David Elstein: A Confucian Case for Moderate Free Expression
Masooda Bano: Caricaturing the Prophet: Possible Responses from Within the Islamic Tradition
Chair: José Casanova
Wednesday, 26 May
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1.30 PM – 3.00 PM
Debora Spini: Constructing Women: Free Speech, Gender and Religion
Amel Grami: Freedom of Speech in Contemporary Arab societies, From a Gender Perspective
Chair: Marina Calloni
3.15 PM – 4.45 PM
Michel Wieviorka: Freedom, in General, and Academic Freedom. A French Perspective
Timothy Garton Ash: Is Europe Losing Free Speech?
Chair: Jonathan Laurence
5.00 PM – 5.45 PM
Gilbert Achcar: Freedom of Expression, Islamophobia and Antisemitism
Chair: Marcella Simoni
5.45 PM – 6.30 PM
Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab: The Freedom of Thought and the Politics of Thought in the Arab World
Chair: Patrizio Fondi
Thursday, 27 May
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1.15 PM – 2.45 PM
Gautam Bhatia: Offence or Hate?: The Limits of Free Speech under the Indian Constitution
Ananya Vajpeyi: Faking News, Hiding Data: New Assaults on the Freedom of Speech in India
Chair: Pratap Bhanu Mehta
3.00 PM – 3.45 PM
Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Speech, Identity and Boundaries in Age of Social Media
Chair: Daniel Gamper
4.00 PM – 5.45 PM
Matteo Bonotti & Jonathan Seglow: Freedom of Speech: A Relational Defense
Matthew Kramer: Freedom of Expression as Self-Restraint
Chair: Alessandro Ferrara
Friday, 28 May
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1.45 PM – 2.45 PM
Cass Sunstein: Liars: Falsehoods and Free Speech in an Age of Deception
Chair: Giancarlo Bosetti
2.45 PM – 3.30 PM
ROUNDTABLE: Which Limits to Free Speech? And Who Decides Them?
Speakers: Giuliano Amato, Bhikhu Parekh
Chair: Ananya Vajpeyi
3.45 PM – 5.30 PM
Richard Quang-Anh Tran: Banishing the Poets: Reflections on Free Speech and Literary Censorship in Vietnam
Sophia Woodman & Tim Pringle: Academic Freedom and the Political Economy of Knowledge Production: A View on/of/from China
Chair: Toshio Miyake
5.30 PM – 6.30 PM
Presentations of the Summer School Workshops *
6.30 PM
Closing Remarks
Giancarlo Bosetti | Chairman Reset-Dialogues on Civilizations
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* Summer School workshops are conducted by Devrim Kabasakal Badamchi (The Justification of Free Speech and Its Limits), Volker Kaul (Free Speech and Epistemic Injustice) and Jonathan Laurence (The Status of Free Speech in the European Culture Wars).