Published on 25-03-2026, Last modified on 25-03-2026

Public Lecture “Academic Freedom and the Contingency of Its Boundaries: Fragments on Repression” by Prof. Vladan Đokić, Rector of the University of Belgrade

The HRRN is honored to host Professor Vladan Đokić, Rector of the University of Belgrade, who will deliver an open lecture on academic freedom on the 22 of April.

Academic freedoms represent the foundation of the ethics of the university community and a strong cohesive factor, because they connect universal and individual ethical principles. The experience of the strengthening of autocratic tendencies in Serbia shows that any external limitation of academic freedom echoes through the community of students, researchers and professors, encouraging both resistance and reflexive reaction. Three fragments of repression show the mechanisms that the regime applies in an effort to nullify the idea of ​​public education in Serbia. This danger is real. In circumstances in which both civil and academic freedoms are simultaneously exposed to the pressure of totalitarian uniformity, and social and institutional frameworks are increasingly subordinated to the government, intellectual, individual and collective capacities are activated to oppose various forms of single-mindedness, lethargy and conformity.

Programme: 

19:00 – Welcome

19:05 – Public Lecture by Professor Vladan Đokić

19:30 – Panel discussion with Professor Pieter Troch, moderated by Professor Fabienne Bossuyt

20:10 – Q&A

20:30 – Closing

This event is co-organized with Eureast Platform.

Vladan Đokić

Rector

University of Belgrade

Professor of Architecture, he has been a Dean at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, teaching urban design, urban planning and urban morphology. Member of Academy of Engineering Sciences of Serbia. He has been a Member of the Executive Committee of the European Council of Spatial Planners.

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