As participants in the Prague conference “Philosophy & Social Science” who consider themselves part of the tradition of critical theory we express our deep concern about our colleagues in Turkey who have been dismissed by executive decrees without due process and legal recourse. We extend our solidarity to all persecuted academics and specifically to Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça who are on an indefinite hunger strike in protest of the injustice they have experienced. We urge the Turkish government to respond to their appeal, to respect academic freedom, and to restore the rule of law without further delay.
Svenja Ahlhaus, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Amy Allen, Penn State University, USA
Andrew Arato, New School for Social Research, USA
Banu Bargu, New School for Social Research Amy Bartholomew,
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Jake Bartholomew, Binghamton University, USA
Ali Emre Benli, Durham University, UK
Gurminder Bhambra, University of Warwick, UK
Matteo Bianchin, Universita di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Thomas Biebricher, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Daniel Blanch, Suffolk University, Madrid, Spain
Eva Buddeberg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Arthur Bueno, Max-Weber-Kolleg, Erfurt, Germany
William Callison, University of California Berkeley, USA
Gianfranco Casuso, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
Robin Celikates, University of Amsterdam
Hana Červinková, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Giorgio Cesarale, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Simone Chambers, University of California Irvine, USA
Sylwia Chrostowska, York University, Canada
Thomas Claviez, University of Bern, Switzerland
Jean Cohen, Columbia University, USA
Maeve Cooke, University College Dublin, Ireland
Arianne Conty, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Paolo Costa, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Azar Dakwar, Brussels School of International Studies, University of Kent, Belgium
Peter Dews, University of Essex, UK
Pieter Duvenage, University of the Free State, South Africa
Sara Edenheim, Umea University, Sweden
Verena Erlenbusch, University of Memphis, USA
Valerio Fabbrizi, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Jeffrey Flynn, Fordham University, New York, USA
Yara Frateschi, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Barbara Fultner, Denison University, USA
Daniel Gamper, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
James Gledhill, University of Amsterdam
Kevin Gray, Boston College, USA
Nina Hagel, Bates College, USA
Christoph Henning, Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt, Germany
Felicia Herrschaft, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
John Holmwood, University of Nottingham, UK
Marek Hrubec, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
David Ingram, Loyola University, Chicago, USA
James Ingram, McMaster University, Canada
Marjan Ivkovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Timo Juetten, University of Essex, UK
Ina Kerner, Center for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg, Germany
Steven Klein, University of Florida, USA & European University Institute, Italy
Regina Kreide, Giessen University, Germany
Lauren Langman, Loyola University of Chicago, USA
María Pía Lara, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico
Kristina Lepold, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Hjalte Lokdam, London School of Economics, London, UK
Nancy Sue Love, Appalachian State University, USA
Miriam Madureira, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico
Noëlle McAfee, Emory Univerisity, USA
Mihaela Mihai, University of Edinburgh, UK
Brian Milstein, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
Gary Minda, Brooklyn Law School, New York, USA
Lenny Moss, University of Exeter, UK Celestino
Victor Mussomar, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Radu Neculau, University of Windsor, Canada
Nythamar de Oliveira, Catholic University of Porto Alegre, Brazil
Patrick O’Mahony, University College, Cork, Ireland
Andrew Pierce, Saint Mary’s College, USA
Andrew Poe, Amherst College, USA
Lotar Rasinski, University of Lower Silesia, Poland
David Rasmussen, Boston College, USA
Joseph Rees, Georgetown University, USA
Signe Rehling Larsen, London School of Economics, London, UK
Luiz Repa, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Hartmut Rosa, University of Jena, Germany
Martin Saar, Leipzig University, Germany
Jörg Schaub, University of Essex, UK
Bill Scheuerman, Indiana University, USA
Johannes Schulz, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Ben Schupmann, Yale-NUS, Singapore
Pierre Schwarzer, New School for Social Research
Emil A. Sobotka, Catholic University of Porto Allegre, Brazil
Asger Sorensen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Debora Spini, New York University in Florence, Italy
Lukas Stolz, University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany
Italo Testa, Universita di Parma, Italy
Mathias Thaler, University of Edinburgh, UK
Guilel Treiber, KU Leuven, Belgium
Zuzana Uhde, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Joaquin Valdivielso, University of Ballearis Islands, Spain
Frieder Vogelmann, University of Bremen, Germany
Gisli Vogler, University of Edinburgh, UK
Steven L. Winter, Wayne State University Law School, USA
Christopher Zurn, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
Prague, May 20, 2017