Research Colloquium of INCHER-Kassel: De-Legitimation of Science by Populism

Populist movements provoke conflicts in particular with organizations that cannot fall back on direct forms of input legitimacy. These include not only constitutional courts or public media, but also universities and non-university scientific research institutions. In the recent past, this has repeatedly led to disputes that can be traced back, among other things, to high levels of intolerance of ambiguity and denial of complexity, and that are quite specifically aimed at de-legitimizing science in general. The populist de-legitimation strategies thus strike at the very foundations of research and teaching. The lecture explores the question of what such de-legitimization strategies look like and what implications they may have for the relationship between science and society?

Professor Dr. Markus Seyfried
FB Allgemeine Verwaltung/Rentenversicherung, FG Soziologie, Hochschule für Polizei und öffentliche Verwaltung Nordrhein-Westfalen (HSPV NRW)

This event will probably take place exclusively online - as a ZOOM conference. If a hybrid event (online and presence) is possible, this will be communicated in due time.

Dial-in information for Zoom participation via koch@incher.uni-kassel.de