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Suspension of Klaus Kinzler at Sciences Po Grenoble: the letter of 40 personalities to Frédérique Vidal

2021-12-21T20:54:57.576Z


EXCLUSIVE - In an open letter, 40 personalities, mostly from academia, call on the Minister of Higher Education to ask her to act in the face of what they perceive as censorship imposed by a militant current.


Klaus Kinzler, a teacher at Sciences Po Grenoble, accused of Islamophobia, has long defended himself by alerting the media to the drift of his establishment and the witch hunt of which he felt he was a victim.

The management has just suspended him on the grounds that he would have flouted his obligation of reserve and discretion.

Open letter to Madame Frédérique Vidal, Minister of Higher Education and Research

Madam Minister,

The situation at the IEP in Grenoble and the proceedings against our colleague Klaus Kinzler demonstrate, if it were necessary, that the freedom of expression of academics, as well as their academic freedom within the framework of their teaching and their research, freedoms of which you are the first guarantor, are in danger in our country.

In recent years, a militant current - and claiming to be such - has sought to impose, in many higher education establishments, in particular in the field of social sciences, an exclusive discourse ...

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Source: lefigaro

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