Matthias Lievens
@matthiaslievens.bsky.social
Associate professor, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven. Working on Sartre's social and political philosophy.
Another pro-Palestinian academic who has been fired vaud.ssp-vpod.ch/news/2025/co...
Contrat de professeur « non-renouvelé ». L’Unil invente des procédures pour se débarasser d'un employé
M. Joseph Daher, professeur invité à l’Université de Lausanne depuis plusieurs années s’est vu signifier par la direc-tion de l’Unil le « non-renouvellement » de son contrat pour le semestre de printe...
vaud.ssp-vpod.ch
February 19, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Another pro-Palestinian academic who has been fired vaud.ssp-vpod.ch/news/2025/co...
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Stel je voor, je bevindt je met je vrienden in een groot bos en bent verdwaald. Het is koud, ijskoud.
Het gaat er slecht aan toe met één van je vrienden. Hij kan niet meer lopen. Hij raakt buiten bewustzijn.
Het gaat er slecht aan toe met één van je vrienden. Hij kan niet meer lopen. Hij raakt buiten bewustzijn.
February 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Stel je voor, je bevindt je met je vrienden in een groot bos en bent verdwaald. Het is koud, ijskoud.
Het gaat er slecht aan toe met één van je vrienden. Hij kan niet meer lopen. Hij raakt buiten bewustzijn.
Het gaat er slecht aan toe met één van je vrienden. Hij kan niet meer lopen. Hij raakt buiten bewustzijn.
Scary.
The university just decided to cancel our event. Dark times for academic freedom and international law and a very dangerous precedent
www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/franc...
www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/franc...
February 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Scary.
What a fantastic interview. She's one of the most inspiring British philosophers of the last half a century www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xk5...
The RTE interview of Gillian Rose
YouTube video by Great Books
www.youtube.com
January 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
What a fantastic interview. She's one of the most inspiring British philosophers of the last half a century www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xk5...
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Frankfurt Uni cancels a conference on "Talking about (the Silencing of) Palestine“. Can't make it up.
January 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Frankfurt Uni cancels a conference on "Talking about (the Silencing of) Palestine“. Can't make it up.
"A leading role for the closure of the German mind was played, of all people, by the philosopher Jürgen Habermas." Wolfgang Streeck on German anti-anti-Semitism journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A matter of state: The politics of German anti-anti-Semitism - Wolfgang Streeck, 2024
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December 15, 2024 at 11:34 AM
"A leading role for the closure of the German mind was played, of all people, by the philosopher Jürgen Habermas." Wolfgang Streeck on German anti-anti-Semitism journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
interesting initiative on economic republicanism:
Sean Irving and I created a newsletter for people working on applying republicanism to the economy. Monday the first issue goes out. We want to gain some more subscribers first. If you are interested you can sign up here:
economic-republicanism-newsletter.kit.com/8e5398b027
Sharing is appreciated!
economic-republicanism-newsletter.kit.com/8e5398b027
Sharing is appreciated!
Subscribe to the Economic Republicanism Newsletter
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December 6, 2024 at 9:50 AM
interesting initiative on economic republicanism:
Griezelig:
I was spied on by a series of undercover police for most of my adult life, for my long-standing environmental campaigning. I thought I knew a lot, but when you see it laid out, of the powerful closing ranks, it’s staggering. The St Andrews University quote in particular is utterly disgusting.
1. You think you’ve seen it all. You really have not. I’m a hard-bitten journalist of 39 years’ standing, but details of this story made me shout, weep and slap my head. This week’s column + 🧵
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November 30, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Griezelig:
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Almost 300 scholars & activists from around the world have signed the letter supporting me against censorship in Germany. Please consider signing & circulating. The letter will be sent to TU Darmstadt tomorrow. Thank you for your solidarity and for standing up against apartheid & genocide.
I was invited to deliver this year's Kogon Lecture at TU Darmstadt but I was canceled and called antisemitic due to my statements on the genocide in Gaza.
Please consider signing this letter of support. Thank you for your solidarity.
👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please consider signing this letter of support. Thank you for your solidarity.
👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 19, 2024 at 1:16 PM
Almost 300 scholars & activists from around the world have signed the letter supporting me against censorship in Germany. Please consider signing & circulating. The letter will be sent to TU Darmstadt tomorrow. Thank you for your solidarity and for standing up against apartheid & genocide.
I signed.
I was invited to deliver this year's Kogon Lecture at TU Darmstadt but I was canceled and called antisemitic due to my statements on the genocide in Gaza.
Please consider signing this letter of support. Thank you for your solidarity.
👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please consider signing this letter of support. Thank you for your solidarity.
👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 18, 2024 at 1:19 PM
I signed.
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Over een week is de lancering van nY over surplus(verzet) waaraan Lietje Bauwens en ik afgelopen jaar werkten.
Lancering: perdu.nl/agenda/prese...
nY online: www.ny-web.be/tijdschrift/...
Lancering: perdu.nl/agenda/prese...
nY online: www.ny-web.be/tijdschrift/...
November 15, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Over een week is de lancering van nY over surplus(verzet) waaraan Lietje Bauwens en ik afgelopen jaar werkten.
Lancering: perdu.nl/agenda/prese...
nY online: www.ny-web.be/tijdschrift/...
Lancering: perdu.nl/agenda/prese...
nY online: www.ny-web.be/tijdschrift/...
I have just signed this call. If you're a philosophy professor please consider to do the same. 'Philosophy for Palestine': sites.google.com/view/philoso...
November 4, 2023 at 7:10 PM
I have just signed this call. If you're a philosophy professor please consider to do the same. 'Philosophy for Palestine': sites.google.com/view/philoso...