HAMBURG – With the initiative of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the Organization for the Protection of the Constitution, Hamburg University Rector Prof. Hauke Heekeren prevented the conference titled “We Want Our World Back” from being held in the university hall between 7-9 April 2023.
prof. While the petition started by world-renowned scientists and academics to change Heekeren’s decision and open the doors to the conference for the university, the Left Party, which has a group in the Hamburg State Assembly, made a similar attempt. Group Co-Chairs of the Left Party, Cansu Özdemir and Sabine Boeddinghaus, appealed to the Rector of Hamburg University, for the annulment of the ban decision. Dr. He sent a letter to Heekeren.
Expressing that they are very worried about the cancellation decision, Özdemir and Boeddinghaus drew attention to the importance of the conference with wide participation for the scientific world. Dr. He made the following call to Heekeren: “We demand that you retract your decision very shortly before the conference and contact us to find a solution.”
REQUEST TO ‘INVIDE ATTEMPT’ TO THE MAYOR
Group Co-Chairs of the Left Party, Cansu Özdemir and Sabine Boeddinghaus, also sent a letter to Hamburg Mayor Peter Tschentscher and his deputy Katharina Fegebank requesting that the conference take place on the campus of Hamburg University as planned. Left Party executives asked the mayor and his deputy to take an initiative before the Rector of Hamburg University to lift the ban decision.
In the meantime, despite the scandalous ban decision of Hamburg University, the fourth of the series of conferences under the title of “Challenging Capitalist Modernity” will be held on the planned dates, “We Want Our World Back”. According to the written statement made by the Network for an Alternative Quest, one of the organizers of the conference, the conference will start on Friday, April 7, in the hall of the institution named “Bürgerhaus Wilhelmsburg”.
The detailed program and full address of the conference can be found on the Alternative Search Network’s website: https://www.networkaq.net/de
