• “Elfenbeinturm oder Arena? Wisschenschaft in der Demokratie”

    The fourth and final public event of the series “Democracy: Bridging Facts and Norms” took place on October 20, 2016, at the University of Zurich. An audience of about 180 persons followed the engaged discussion about the role of academics and science in democratic societies between Katja Gentinetta, Svenja Goltermann, Michael Hermann and Thomas Widmer. Moderating the debate, the journalist Peer Teuwsen invited our participants to focus, among other things, on the following questions: Should academics participate in public debates, and if so, when and how? Can social sciences and humanities offer objective contributions to democratic discussions? And what is the impact of becoming a ‘public intellectual’ on one’s academic…