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First university TEDx coming to Denmark

The Copenhagen School of Design and Technology (KEA) will host the first university TEDx to ever be held in Denmark.

Published: 12 November 2014 07:14 CET
First university TEDx coming to Denmark
The event takes place at KEA's Guldbergsgade campus. Photo: Brahl Fotografi / KEA - Copenhagen School of Design & Technology
KEA will host a student-run full-day TEDx event on December 11th, focusing on “emerging voices, technologies and ideas.”
 
Speakers for the event include serial entrepreneur and author Lars Tvede, Guinness World Record holder Hans Henrik Heming and Syrian refugee Noura Bitta Søborg. 
 
“TEDxKEA’s goal is to inspire young people to turn their dreams into commitments,” organisers said in a press release. 
 
The lead organiser of TEDx KEA, Doug Costello, said that Copenhagen is the perfect city for such an event. 
 
“This beautiful city, with its free access to high standards of education, the financial security blanket of SU [government-provided student stipends, ed.] and the unbelievable opportunities that it brings, make this the best place in the world to be a student,” Costello said in a statement. 
 
TEDx events are local and self-organized offshoots of the successful TED Conferences, which invite some of the biggest names in the world to speak on various topics for 18 minutes or less. 
 
TEDxKEA will take place at Empire Bio in Nørrebro and be simulcast to KEA’s Guldbergsgade campus. For more information, visit TedxKEA’s website. 

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ISLAM

Police probe opened after poster campaign against ‘Islamophobic’ lecturers at French university

The French government condemned on Monday a student protest campaign targeting two university professors accused of Islamophobia, saying it could put the lecturers in danger.

Published: 8 March 2021 13:35 CET
Police probe opened after poster campaign against 'Islamophobic' lecturers at French university
Illustration photo: Justin Tallis/AFP

Student groups plastered posters last week on the walls of a leading political science faculty in Grenoble that likened the professors to “fascists” and named them both in a campaign backed by the UNEF student union.

Junior interior minister Marlene Schiappa said the posters and social media comments recalled the online harassment of French schoolteacher Samuel Paty last October, who was beheaded in public after being denounced online for offending Muslims.

“These are really odious acts after what happened with the decapitation of Samuel Paty who was smeared in the same way on social networks,” she said on the BFM news channel. “We can’t put up with this type of thing.”

“When something is viewed as racist or discriminatory, there’s a hierarchy where you can report these types of issues, which will speak to the professor and take action if anything is proven,” Schiappa said.

Sciences Po university, which runs the Institute of Political Studies (IEP) in Grenoble in eastern France, also condemned the campaign on Monday and has filed a criminal complaint.

An investigation has been opened into slander and property damage after the posters saying “Fascists in our lecture halls. Islamophobia kills” were found on the walls of the faculty.

One of the professors is in charge of a course called “Islam and Muslims in contemporary France” while the other is a lecturer in German who has taught at the faculty for 25 years.

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