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As a child in the 1970s, Claudia Tazreiter emigrated from Austria to Australia with her family. For more than three years now, she has been back in Europe. Now as a professor at LiU. It is not a coincidence that migration is her field of study.

A group of LiU PhD candidates took part in a research exchange programme in Vienna. The programme is a collaboration in philosophy, sociology, and migration studies, that strengthens the research and the academic ties between Austria and Sweden.

The group of master’s students on the Ethnicity and Migration programme at LiU are unique. They are the first in Sweden to take a university course in how to create a campaign in support of an imprisoned researcher and for academic freedom.

“Migration studies is not only about movement and border crossing, but can teach us about home, staying put, about the value of community and of place”, says Claudia Tazreiter, professor of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

The trauma of war does not disappear when weapons are laid down and peace declared. It lives on, literally, through the body and between generations. This is what researcher Claudia Tazreiter said in a new seminar series.

What is academic freedom and how does it correspond to freedom of speech? When does freedom of speech become hate speech? How can Linköping University help and protect international scholars who are at risk?