On an almost daily basis, our society faces crises that arise as a result of making insufficiently competent decisions in all domains of action: medicine, law, economy, urban planning, ecology, etc. Such situations less often result from disagreements within the profession, and more often from making compromises between the opinions of the profession and political actors, or due to the omission of experts from the process of making important decisions. All this leads to the creation of a society that ignores the public good and the interests of citizens.
What should the public engagement of academic workers mean? Should experts wait to be consulted or must they actively fight to have their opinions heard? Do academic workers and experts have the right to defend the public good? And finally, what is the purpose of education in a society that makes decisions ignoring the opinion of the most competent and qualified individuals and groups?
At this forum, through a conversation with experts and scientists from different fields, we want to start a discussion on the topic of the professional public's attitude towards their profession and public action, as well as the issue of social responsibility that comes with public office.
The venue: Cafe Brod Zeppelin, Kej Žrtava Racie bb, Novi Sad
https://www.facebook.com/Cafe-brod-Zeppelin-281248608726941
Time: 22.10.2020. at 6 p.m
Participants:
- Dr. Sci. honey Predrag Đurić, epidemiologist
- Dr. Aleksandar Bede, Association of Architects of Novi Sad
- prof. Dr. Bojan Pajtić, Faculty of Law
- Dimitrije Radišić, Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science and Mathematics
- Bora Babić, Academic Book Publishing Company.
- prof. Đorđe Pavićević, Ph.D., Faculty of Political Sciences and member of KO MASA
Moderator: Dr. Bojana Bodroža, assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad and trustee of MAS for Novi Sad
