Fearless – Free Seminar
Education Program of the “Fearless” Program Series
The Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (Blinken OSA Archives)—a part of the Central European University which was exiled from Budapest to Vienna—held a seminar series on fearless speech in the first semester of the academic year 2021/22. The seminar was part of a series of events organized in collaboration with the students and faculty of Freeszfe. The eight-part seminar series, which ran from early October to mid-December, was open to all Hungarian university and college students, including students from the Freeszfe and the vocational colleges.
Speaking beyond—or without—fear is an inescapable and timely problem in Hungary today. Through analyzing historical and literary examples and contemporary processes, the participants sought to understand and interpret the political and moral necessity, the possibilities, and the internal and external obstacles of speaking beyond fear.
The seminar consisted of eight sessions, each lasting one and a half hours, where students learned, among other things, about the conceptual and historical framework of fearless speech, some classical examples of parrhesia, forms and modes of parrhesia after 1956, censorship and self-censorship, the obligation of, the possibilities for reflection.
Further details in Hungarian: https://edupro.osaarchivum.org/felelemnelkul/
The program is in Hungarian.
The seminar is part of the fearless program series organized by Blinken OSA and Freeszfe Association.