Freedom & Resistance 2021
There are several recent reports highlighting a worrying trend towards what one could call attacks on democratic values such as independent media and academic freedom.
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contributors
Editor-in chief, Baltic Worlds.
Ninna Mörner
Editor-in-chief since 2009 for the journal Baltic Worlds and its’ web site balticworlds.com .
She is a graduated journalist and did report from East Europe in the early 90s. She has been teaching in journalism and also worked at several publishing houses and magazines. She holds a MA in Economic History. She has published peer-reviewed articles as well as articles of numerous other genres, including books.
She is today also an expert in human trafficking and a human right activist and has as such participated in numerous EU-projects, reported on the issue internationally, and in Sweden developed a support programme for victims. In 2013 she took initiative to the network Swedish Platform Civil Society Against Human Trafficking (later a formalized organization).
She is a frequent lecturer in human trafficking and is during 2019, besides, being a editor for Baltic Worlds, teaching at DiS a course on Human Trafficking and the Sex Trade. She is also during 2019-2020 coordinating a project regarding empowerment for formal child victims of human trafficking (Ecpat Norway, sponsored by CBSS).
Since 2013 she has been involved in “Dream Business”, a theater/film project around human trafficking that has been performed in Sweden, Norway and now runs in Finland. She is also engaged in promoting cultural activities for people living at the margins, and is board member at Skådebanan Stockholm.
Articles by Ninna Mörner
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1991-2021: THIRTY YEARS AFTER A SERIES OF INTERNATIONAL MULTIDISCIPLINARY ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
Preliminary Programme (links, dates, and hours to be specified, all subject to eventual changes) In December 1991, the Soviet […]
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Invitation to submit for a Baltic Worlds’ Special Section New Age Spirituality in Socialist Societies
CfP: Please submit before February 20, 2021 on the New Age-related topics suggested here.
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Baltic Worlds’ Online Coverage: “The Impacts of the Pandemic”
Baltic Worlds' Online Covid-19 Coverage examines how politicians in different parts of the region are reacting to the crisis, and to what consequences.
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The ideas of two Media Technology students added value to the project Archipelago Business Development.
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Authoritarian regimes stifle academic freedom
On the 6th of May this year, Baltic Worlds arranged a seminar at CBEES on the topic of the shrinking space for academic freedom. Updated reports from Poland and Hungary was followed by a presentation of the autocratic learning process in Eurasia. Finally there were suggestions on how protect academic freedom and work for international scholarly solidarity.
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“FEMACT is led by an ethos of feminism-across-borders”
The academic community is international, and this solidarity crosses borders. Angelika Sjöstedt-Landén is one of the founders of the network FEMACT, that aim to fight the limiting space for academic freedom. We asked her to explain more about the initiative.
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Academic freedom. The very heart of the scientific process
The Swedish National Commission for UNESCO and the Young Academy of Sweden arranged a symposium “The Shrinking Academic Freedom in Europe” November 9, 2018 in Stockholm. This symposium was one of many that have been organized lately on the topic threats to academic freedom, which can be seen as a sign and an acknowledgement that there is cause for worry.
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“There is a global crisis of attacks on higher education”
Scholars at Risk (SAR) is an international network of institutions and individuals whose mission it is to protect scholars and promote academic freedom. We ask five questions to Lauren Crain, Director of Research and Learning at Scholars at Risk.