[Education for Anarchy

This seminar session takes Mary Wollstonecraft’s critique of women’s education in Chapter II of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman as a point of departure to examine the relationship between education, rational autonomy, and gender equality. At its heart lies a fundamental question: what conditions must be in place for education to become a genuine practice of emancipation and a foundation of democratic life? In the context of the Wissenschaft gegen Faschismus action week, the session will bring this question into the present to explore the political stakes of education and the struggle for academic freedom. Against the backdrop of contemporary efforts to curtail gender-related research and equality initiatives, we will ask who has the power to determine what can be researched, taught, and recognised as legitimate knowledge, and what is lost when the freedom of academic inquiry and the emancipatory promise of education come under threat.

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