Authors

Dina Gusejnova²; Anna Chechel⁴; Doris Lemmermeier⁵; Andrea Petö⁶; Julia Strutz⁷; Jon Roozenbeek¹; Luke Cooper³;  ¹ King's College London, UK;  ² LSE, UK;  ³ London School of Economics, UK;  ⁴ University of Cambridge; Ukrainian Association of Professors and Researchers of European Integration European Commission Representative, UK;  ⁵ Commissioner of Integration for Brandenburg, Germany (2013-2024), Germany;  ⁶ Central European University, Vienna; Research Affiliate of the CEU Democracy Institute, Austria;  ⁷ Humboldt University; co-founder, Off University, Berlin, Germany

Discussion

A panel hosted by Project 2022 as part of the Eastern Academic Alliance (supported by the European Union) and LSE Ideas.
The panel is concerned with the impact of recent wars and authoritarianism on Education, placing the impact of Russia’s war against Ukraine in broader international contexts. Education is a fundamental right that is secured in democratic societies with the help of systematic and institutional approaches to the formation of knowledge and the transmission of values. Project 2022 maps how Education is threatened by multiple dimensions of insecurity, existential, institutional, and epistemic. The aim of the Eastern Academic Alliance is to bring together experts who have been leading active interventions against these threats, and to distil ideas for possible action points. Threats to national sovereignty in Ukraine lead to the destruction and dispersal of knowledge communities and economies. Threats of authoritarianism and repression affect knowledge communities in and in authoritarian regimes. Both state and non-state actors have been drawn into global conflicts, with cyberattacks threatening educators and public knowledge in multiple locations, as recently seen in the case of the British Library and other systems. But the exceptional pressure on the sector has also yielded responses of unprecedented variety, creativity, coordination, and resourcefulness. The panel identifies ways in which traditional institutions as well as crisis-specific NGOs, regional, national, and supranational policy makers can learn from each other to strengthen knowledge communities under new conditions of risk.
Welcome: Dina Gusejnova, Associate Professor in International History, LSE; Project 2022/Eastern Academic Alliance
Input from: Anna Chechel, Visiting Scholar, Jesus College, University of Cambridge (UK); Head of Department (Public Management and Administration) and Professor at Mariupol State University (Ukraine) member of the Ukrainian Association of Professors and Researchers of European Integration
Discussants: Doris Lemmermeier, Commissioner of Integration for Brandenburg, Germany (2013-2024) Andrea Petö, Professor of Gender Studies at Central European University, Vienna; Research Affiliate of the CEU Democracy Institute Julia Strutz, Co-founder, Off University, Berlin Jon Roozenbeek, Lecturer in Psychology and Security at King's College London, Department of War Studies
Moderator: Luke Cooper, Associate Professorial Research Fellow, Conflict and Civicness Research Group, LSE