Doesn’t believe in word bans: Elif Özmen defends free speech in her seminars.
Image: Marie-Luise Kolb
–
Giessen philosophy professor Elif Özmen conducts research on the subject of academic freedom. In an interview, she explains why she does not issue any “trigger warnings” in her seminars and what tendencies at universities cause her concern.
–
Elif Özmen, born in 1974, studied philosophy, the history of science and German philology in Göttingen and Frankfurt. After completing her doctorate at the Humboldt University in Berlin and her habilitation at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, she held visiting professorships in Hamburg and Regensburg. In 2013 she became a professor in Regensburg, and since 2016 she has been teaching practical philosophy at the University of Giessen. In 2021 she published the anthology “Academic Freedom in Conflict”.
