Symposium ’Mehr Mut!’ (’More Courage!’) at FRIAS

Lectures and discussions explore the question of why courageous decisions are difficult to make. How do people make courageous decisions and why is it so difficult? The Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) invites all interested parties to approach this topic from different angles in the symposium "More Courage!". On Thursday, June 23, 2022 , and Friday, June 24, 2022 , participants will present different aspects of this question in lectures and panel discussions. Courage and despondency in politics and society . On June 23, 2022, starting at 9:00 a.m. Günther Schulze, Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Research at the University of Freiburg, Klaus Töpfer, former Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Uwe Wagschal, Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Freiburg, and Vera King, Professor of Sociology and Psychoanalytic Social Psychology at the University of Frankfurt, will place the central question of the symposium in the context of politics and society in their presentations. Science in times of social media and fake news . Thereafter, Richard Traunm üller, Professor of  Empirical Democracy Research at the University of Mannheim, Johanna Pink , Professor for Islamic Studies at the University of Freiburg, and Benjamin Schütze , Junior Fellow with the Young Academy for Sustainability Research at FRIAS, will talk about how threats to academic freedom and science-based debate culture can be countered.