The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies in Tunis is receiving research proposals to participate in its international symposium titled “Freedom and Loss of Freedom” from 17-18 April 2020 in Tunisia.
Through a multidisciplinary approach, this symposium seeks to shed light on the issue of freedom and its limits in Arab and other societies, in order to contribute to an objective and accurate academic debate related to the transitional paths witnessed by our societies. It not only aspires to review the literature of freedom as accumulated by the humanities and social sciences for more than a century and a half, but to test its abilities to understand the reality of freedom and the foundation and strategies in place to achieve it.
Researchers and lecturers participating will present papers on the following themes:
1. The concept of freedom and its semantic and contextual transformations.
2. Individual and collective freedoms in the face of tyranny and totalitarianism.
3. Technology, science, creativity and freedom.
4. Freedom and economic development.
5. Civil society, culture, education and freedom.