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SAR staff, scholars and partner organizations will present a session on 'Hosting threatened Academics: Best practices for European Universities' at the Annual Conference of the European Association for International Education (EAIE). The EAIE Conference will be held in Nantes, France, from September 15-18, 2010.

SAR scholars, staff and representatives from SAR member Centennial College, Canada, will present a panel discussion at the Annual Conference of the Association of Canadian Community Colleges.

On 12th May 2010, Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, delivered a lecture entitled “Enriching the Arguments: the Refugee Contribution to British Life” to a large invited audience at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London. The event was jointly sponsored by the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA) and University College London. The event was attended by prestigious figures from academia, religious groups, politics and the NGO and legal sectors, alongside diplomats and commentators....

Dr. Jean Marie Kamatali, a Rwandan law professor, will be speaking at the Jefferson Educational Society on May 5, 2010, as part of the SAR Speaker Series and the Jefferson Educational Society's Global Issues Forum. His public lecture is entitled, "The Truth about Rwanda: Causes and Aftermath." Professor Kamatali was dean of the Law School at the National University of Rwanda and contributed to the post-genocide legal and institutional rebuilding in Rwanda. The 2-hour lecture from 11:30am - 1:30...

In partnership with the World Affairs Council Sacramento Chapter, Scholars at Risk will present a talk by SAR Executive Director Robert Quinn on the power of ideas. The talk will be held at the UC Davis International House in Davis, California, and will begin at 5:30pm.

Scholars at Risk will present an academic panel at Stanford University focusing on scholars at risk in contemporary Iran and beyond. Speakers include: Fatemeh Haghighatjoo Mohsen Sazegara Natalia Koulinka Robert Quinn, founding Executive Director of Scholars at Risk Larry Diamond, Director at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law The event will be held: April 28, 2010 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Stanford University Philippines Conference Room, Encina Hall 616 Serra St.,...

Scholars at Risk and the World Affairs Council will present a moderated panel of Iranian intellectuals discussing the battle for the hearts and minds of Iran. The power of ideas is the power to question and to change. Knowing this, repressive regimes, ideologues and fanatics worldwide use every means at their disposal—including intimidation, imprisonment and death—to silence ideas and control what people know and think. Scholars at Risk is working to defend the power of ideas on one of most prominent...

April 27, 2010 12:30pm to 2pm University of California, Berkeley 470 Stephens Hall Rob Quinn, the founding Executive Director of the Scholars At Risk Network, will provide a behind-the-scenes look at the power of ideas as it plays out on contemporary intellectual battlegrounds from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Based on lessons learned from thousands of academics, researchers, writers, artists and activists who suffered because of their research, writing and speaking out, Mr. Quinn will discuss...

University of Groningen presents a lecture by Arthur Schafer and co-speakers Trudy Dehue and Peter Mol on Wednesday, 21 April 2010, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM, in the University's Academy Building. Entrance free. Arthur Schafer: ‘Over the past three decades, as governments have retreated from funding biomedical research, the pharmaceutical industry has stepped in to fill the vacuum. Corporate funding of university science has resulted in a profound loss of research integrity. This should not surprise...

The Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA), SAR's partner organization in the UK, will hold a series of panel discussions on the nature of academic freedom in the 21st century. Persecuted academics will discuss their experiences and the threats and difficulties faced by academics worldwide in trying to carry out their work. Events are as follows: March 23, 2010 1pm London School of Economics (Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building) Speakers: Prof. Giles Ji Ungpakorn (Thailand);...

A meeting of Scholars at Risk representatives at Norwegian universities will be hosted by the University of Oslo, with participation of SAR's Executive Director, a SAR scholar and a representative of the Scholars at Risk-UAF project in the Netherlands.

A Pakistani scholar specializing in women's rights will speak at Lasell College on March 30, 2010, as part of the SAR Speaker Series.

Dr. Felix Kaputu is a Congolese scholar specializing in African and Comparative Literature. He will speak at Rollins College on March 17-19, 2010, as part of the SAR Speaker Series. He will give a public lecture entitled "Academic Freedom in Sub-Saharan Africa" on the 18th at 7pm in Bush Auditorium at Rollins College. The lecture and visit are sponsored by an International Development Grant, the African and African American Studies Program and the Departments of Anthropology, History and Religion. More...

Presented by Professor Mohammad Amjad Formally of the Department of Political Science, Azad University of Iran, Tehran, Iran "The Iranian Presidential Election of 2009 and the Emergence of the Democratic Resistance" March 15th at Russell Sage College Bush Memorial 45 Ferry St., Troy, NY, 12180 7. p.m. Free and open to the public For more information contact: Dr. Steven A. Leibo at leibos@sage.edu "Israel in the Mind of Iranians" March 16th at Sage College of Albany 8:00 a.m. 224...

Radwan Ziadeh, Founding Director of the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies in Syria, will be visiting the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University as part of the SAR Speaker Series on Friday, February 12, 2010 from 12:00 – 1:30 pm. He will participate in a panel discussion of a new report by the Cairo Institute of Human Rights and its implications for US policy, moderated by Dr. Hanny Megally. The event will take place at Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, Room 311,...

Dr. Jean Marie Kamatali, a Rwandan law professor, will be visiting the University of Richmond as part of the SAR Speaker Series from January 27–29, 2010. He will participate in several events, including a public lecture entitled “Human Rights and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda”. The public lecture will take place on January 28 from 4:00 – 5:00 pm in Commons Room 305.

The University of Iowa Center for Human Rights will celebrate its 10th year this fall with a series of speakers, films and other activities, including a conference on November 13th and 14th. SAR scholar Mehrangiz Kar will speak on gender and human rights in Iran as part of an afternoon panel on the 14th. Details on location, speakers and other information can be found at the following link.

SAR-NEAR Workshop on Academic Freedom & University Autonomy in the Balkan, Black Sea & Caspian Regions will be held in Istanbul, Turkey in partnership with Istanbul Bilgi University Human Rights Law Research Centre.

On Friday, October 23rd, from 4-5:30pm, Professor Irving Epstein, Professor of Educational Studies and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University, will present on academic freedom and globalization at Indiana University Bloomington in the School of Education Alumni Room 2277. Professor Epstein has strong interests in educational policy, comparative and international education, and children’s rights issues and has taught in Los Angeles, Perth, Australia, Taiwan, and Hong Kong....

SAR scholars from Iraq and Palestine speak at the launch of a new Institute for Global Citizenship and Equity at Centennial College, the first Community College in Canada to join the SAR network.

The Voices at Risk, Visions of Hope Speaker Series at IUPUI presents “The Challenge for Ethiopia”, a lecture given by Dr. Befekadu Degefe on October 14, from 12:00 - 1:30 at the IUPUI Office of International Affairs (902 W. New York St., ES2132). Befekadu Degefe is a visiting professor of economics from Ethiopia at McGill University as well as universities and research institutions in Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Zambia. He has contributed extensive policy research and papers for the IMF, the...

On October 1, 2009, from 5 to 7pm, the Columbia University Center for the Study of Human Rights will host a panel discussion on "The Machinery of Repression in China" in association with the Asian American Alliance and Scholars at Risk. A book signing will follow the discussion. The event will take place at the Roone Arledge Cinema, in the Lerner Hall, at Broadway and West 115th Street (entrance on campus side). The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact cshr@columbia.edu.

On behalf of the Scholars at Risk Network, Universities Ireland, Amnesty International, Ireland Section, the Irish Centre for Human Rights, and Trinity College Dublin, we invite you to the launch of Scholars at Risk, Ireland Section. The launch will be held at Trinity College Dublin on Tuesday September 22, 2009 at 4.30pm. Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi, will deliver a keynote address to mark the occasion. Scholars at Risk, Ireland Section is a partnership between Universities Ireland and the...

On Sunday, June 21st, from 2-3:30pm, the Workshop welcomes Bao Pu, an editor and translator of Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang. The bestselling volume, published in Chinese and English on the recent 20th anniversary of the protests, compiles hours of secretly recorded interviews and unprecedented insight into the schisms within the Chinese Communist Party’s elite. Though nominally the highest-ranking member of the Party in June of 1989, Zhao reveals here that “no...

The launch conference of the UAF Scholars at Risk project in the Netherlands will take place on Thursday, 18 June 2009 in Amsterdam. The project is a joint initiative of the University Assistance Fund (UAF) and the Scholars at Risk (SAR) network in defence of threatened and refugee scholars, academic freedom and university values worldwide. Speakers include: - Ruud Lubbers: Former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Minister of State and University Assistance Fund-Chair - Robbert...

On June 13, 2009, the SAR Committee at the University of Groningen, Netherlands will host a lecture on academic freedom as part of the university’s 395th anniversary celebrations. More details to be provided as the event nears.

Sunday, May 3 was the first anniversary of Cyclone Nargis, which devastated Burma. Khet Mar was invited to New York to speak about the aftermath. Khet Mar has been a leader in relief efforts and is the co-founder of the Zagawa Environment Network. The following link is to an article that describes her efforts and the general situation in Burma today. http://www.queenstribune.com/news/1242401981.html

This round-table event was held on April 29th at Lamont Library (Harvard Yard) in the Forum Room at 4:00. The countries represented by this extraordinary group of writers are Iran, Iraq, China, Cuba, Burma, and DR Congo.

The Southern Asian Institute (SAI) presents a brown bag with journalist Arif Jamal on his new book, Shadow War: The Untold Story of Jihad in Kashmir. Date: April 28, 2009 from 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm EDT Location: Columbia University, Morningside Heights International Affairs Building, Room 1118 Contact: For further information regarding this event, please contact Sabrina Buckwalter by sending email to sb2997@columbia.edu or by calling 212-854-5514. A contributing writer to The New York Times,...

A celebration of world literature featuring more than 140 writers, 40 countries and 60 events The PEN World Voices festival of International Literature will bring together more than 150 writers from across the globe for an exciting week of cross-cultural literary exchange, April 27-May 3, 2009. A stellar line-up of established and emerging authors will take the stage in venues across New York City to explore the theme of Evolution/Revolution through conversations, panels, readings and performances....

April 20-21: Through the University of California Human Rights Initiative, a SAR scholar of human rights and democracy will speak on two UC campuses this spring. The events are hosted by UC Davis School of Law and UCLA School of Law. More information coming soon.

On April 15-16, SAR and NEAR will facilitate an Academic Freedom Workshop in Accra, hosted by University of Ghana, Legon. More information will be made available as the event nears.

SAR member university, Indiana University Purdue University - Indianapolis, hosted an event to encourage solidarity with Zimbabwe. A SAR scholar from Zimbabwe gave a public lecture at the event via videoconference.

The Scholar Rescue Fund launches its World Report at the United Nations in New York City. The event is open to the public and runs from 1:15 - 2:45 p.m. For more information and to register, please visit http://www.ony.unu.edu/events-forums/forums/2009/unu-midday-forum-academics-und.html.

Cornell Advocates for Human Rights presents "At the Top of My Voice," a film screening and discussion on grassroots human rights activism with Anna V. Dolidze, a human rights activist and Visiting Fellow at Cornell Law School. The event will be held on Thursday, April 9, at 6:30 p.m. in the Stein Mancuso Amphitheater, G90 Myron Taylor Hall.

A SAR scholar will speak on campus at the University of Richmond, VA, on topics pertaining to political science and religion in Asia.

The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival presents a screening of the forthcoming documentary film, "At the Top of My Voice" at 1 p.m. at the Fall Creek Cinema in Ithaca, NY. The film focuses on human rights issues in Georgia and highlights aspects of SAR's work. A discussion with two Georgian human rights activists follows.

NYU's Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Center will host its second annual conference on academic freedom on Friday, April 3rd, 2009, from 9:30am-6:00pm. Held at the Helen and Martin Kimmel Center (60 Washington Square South, Room 905/907) the event will feature panel discussions on Academic Capitalism and the Commodification of Knowledge; Academic Freedom and the International Perspective; Science, Technology, and Academic Freedom; and The Red Scare and the Academy. To RSVP, please email zk3@nyu.edu

Two SAR scholars from Georgia present on human rights in their home country at Mercyhurst College's Global Issues Forum on 3/24.

SAR Director Rob Quinn visited the campus of University of Arkansas at Fort Smith to meet with faculty and to invite the university to get involved in SAR network activities.

Robert Quinn, founding director of the Scholars at Risk Network, will speak on "Protecting Freedom of Ideas Around the Globe" at 7 p.m. today at the University of the Ozarks' Walton Fine Arts Center in Clarksville. The lecture is free and open to the public. The Scholars at Risk Network is a New York-based network of colleges that promotes academic freedom and defends the human rights of scholars. Quinn is an adjunct professor of law at Fordham University School of Law. He is the former executive...

SAR Director Rob Quinn spent a week in residence at the University of the Ozarks meeting with faculty and students. He visit was part of the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellowships program sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges.

SAR Director Rob Quinn visited the campus of SAR member University of Arkansas, Fayetteville to talk with students, faculty and administrators about the latest developments in SAR's work.

On March 5th and 6th, 2009, the NYU Steinhardt School of Education hosts its annual conference entitled “Developing Peace: Education for Mutual Understanding.” SAR scholars and staff will present on a panel on Friday, March 6 at 10 a.m. All panels will take place at Pless Hall, 82 Washington Square East, New York, New York. **Free and Open to the Public**

Voices at Risk: China Tuesday, March 3, 12:00 p.m. Throughout Spring 09, the IUPUI Office of International Affairs, in collaboration with Human Rights Works, the Scholars at Risk Network, and the IU Pro-bono UN Shadow Reporting Program, will feature a ‘voice at risk’ live or via videoconference from embattled parts of the world, including Belarus, Georgia, Zimbabwe, Syria, and Sri Lanka. Our next speaker is a visiting scholar from the People's Republic of China. He was a law professor at Peking...

IUPUI office of International Affairs and NYU Scholars at Risk Network will feature voices from embattled areas around the world in a series of events beginning Feb. 11. Galina Shaton, from Belarus (former Soviet Union), will be the featured speaker during a teleconference at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009, in ES 2132. Shaton will discuss human rights and share some of her experiences from the former Soviet Union. Shaton holds a doctorate in philosophy and has written more than 64 articles...

On February 6th and 7th, Cornell University’s Africana Studies and Research Center is holding a conference on academic freedom from 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. on February 6th and 7th. The event is free and open to the public.

On February 3, 2009, the Universidad Simón Bolívar (USB) in Venezuela launches its membership of the Scholars of Risk network with presentations from USB’s Rector, Venezuelan scholars and SAR staff.

Taslima Nasrin, Bangladeshi author, poet and newspaper columnist speaks at 5:00 pm in Indiana University's Faculty Room, University Club, Indiana Memorial Union. The title of her lecture is "My Life: A Struggle for Equality."

After a full year of preparation and deliberation, the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition is ready to be launched. Join us in celebrating this promising new initiative! The Launch of the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition is an opportunity to learn about the Coalition, its areas of activity, and how you and your scientific association can become a part of this important new initiative, to discover the varied contributions that science and scientists can make to human rights, and have...

The Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (SAR’s partner organization in the UK) will hold a two day conference to mark the organization’s 75th anniversary, from December 4-5, 2008. The conference entitled “In Defence of Learning: The Past and the Present” will be held at the British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG.

The University of Groningen in The Netherlands is holding a panel discussion on academic freedom on December 2 from 8:00-9:30 p.m. in the Academy Building, Groningen. The event features André Köbben and Henk Tromp, with introductions by Coen Groen, Berend Jonker and Antoon De Baets.

Scholars at Risk will hold two events at the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) meeting in DC: a panel featuring SAR scholars from Iraq and Iran (November 22, from 1:30-3:30 p.m.) and a discussion session on measuring academic freedom around the globe (November 22, from 4:00-5:00 p.m.).

New York University's Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Center Invite You To A Symposium on Academic Freedom and the Law November 13, 2008 2:00 - 5:00pm Helen & Martin Kimmel Center 914 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 Chair, Norman Dorsen, Stokes Professor of Law and Counselor to the President, New York University "The Constitutional Law of Academic Freedom" Robert Post, Professor of Law, Yale University Comment by Greg Lukianoff, President, Foundation for Individual...

A SAR scholar of economics has been invited to give a public lecture at the University of Richmond, where he will touch on global perceptions of the current economic situation.

Two scholars from the former Russian state of Georgia will speak at Mercyhurst College on Thursday, Nov. 6, at 11:30 a.m. as part of the Global Issues Forum. They are appearing under the auspices of the Scholars At Risk Network, which promotes academic freedom and defends the human rights of scholars who are attacked because of their words and ideas. The event will be held in the Mercy Heritage Room at Mercyhurst. Cost for the luncheon is $8.50 and reservations should be made by e-mailing sgccor@aol.com.

Time: 12:30 pm Location: Art Exhibit Room, Macmillan Hall 2nd Floor Wells College welcomes human rights activist Anna Dolidze, who will give a talk on “International Human Rights and the Current Georgian/Russian Conflict.” Her presentation will be followed by a reception with an opportunity to meet the speaker. Anna V. Dolidze is a human rights lawyer and a visiting fellow at Cornell University Law School. Her interests lie in human rights law, research and documentation, comparative constitutional...

As part of the Harriet Elliot Lecture Series at UNC-Greensboro, Dr. Jean-Marie Kamatali, a Rwandan law professor who focuses on human rights and international law, will discuss “Back together again: the Challenge of Post-Conflict and Post dictatorship societies” on October 31st, 2008, from 10:00-10:50 a.m. in the Virginia Dare Room of the Alumni House. Dr. Kamatali's presentation is one of several that will take place from 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.

Rapid globalization, international collaborations, massification, corporate partnerships, increasing number of franchises, regime change, and other conditions of duress are reshaping universities around the world. What are the benefits and what are the risks to academic freedom and free inquiry as universities navigate these trends? This conference will look backward at the role of academic freedom and free inquiry in research universities and forward to what the future may have in store. This...

Date(s): 10.28.08 | Tue Time: 12:30-1:30 Location: Rm. 310 Sponsor: Leitner Center for International Law and Justice Speaker: Rob Quinn Scholars at Risk (SAR) is an international network of universities, scholars and advocates working to promote academic freedom and to defend the human rights of intellectual communities worldwide. Scholars at Risk provides direct assistance in the form of temporary relocation and sanctuary to threatened scholars, advocates and other intellectuals. Scholars...

Support threatened academics right to speak freely. SAIH Campaign 2008 Academic Freedom

The lecture will focus in conflict and women's rights in Columbia. The speaker will lecture on her personal experiences, what she is doing to work towards a resolution and what she sees the international community's role as.

Hosted by the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University Location: Lerner Hall – Columbia University – 2920 Broadway at 115th Street Wednesday, September 24th 2008 Time: 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. The Program: Welcome: Dr. Lee Bollinger, President, Columbia University Dr. Allan Goodman, President & CEO, Institute of International Education (IIE) Introduction: Dr. Henry Jarecki, Chairman, IIE’s Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF) Remarks: HRH Princess Ghida Talal, Board Member,...

The Observatory is organising an event to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Magna Charta Universitatum. The conference will take place in Bologna on 18-20 September 2008. In order to view the programme and register for this event, please visit the conference website: https://85.37.221.108/mcharta/ On 18 September 1988 some 400 rectors from universities worldwide signed the Magna Charta Universitatum. This document has since become the reference for the fundamental values and principles of...

A film that examines scholars at risk and their experiences via interviews and events.

This June 20-21, the European Humanities University and the Scholars at Risk Network will host a meeting and symposium in Vilnius, Lithuania on "Defending the University: Academic Freedom in Central and Eastern Europe." The event aims to build solidarity among scholars and institutions and to identify practical approaches for defending the intellectual space.

Most discussions of academic freedom are US based and legalistic. It is necessary to discuss the role of the humanities in the sustained teaching of the practice of freedom. It is necessary to consider this question internationally. Right to education and academic freedom need also to be related. Kofi Anyidoho (University of Ghana), Paul Bové (University of Pittsbugh), Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley), Jean Franco (Columbia University), Aniket Jaaware (University of Pune), Samia...

The event will be a discussion between two Iraqi archaeologists, one hosted at Brown and one at SUNY Stony Brook, on Iraq's history and the effects of the current situation on Iraq's culture and preservation.

Cosponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union Join international and local guests for a special reading designed to provoke reflection on controversial post-9/11 government surveillance programs in the United States. PEN’s Campaign for Core Freedoms has joined with the American Civil Liberties Union and other leading human-rights organizations to challenge some of the government’s most pernicious infringements on basic human rights, working to restore privacy protections for bookstore and...

A renowned human rights lawyer spoke at a lunchtime discussion hosted by the New York University Law School to discuss her personal struggles as a member of the opposition movement in Georgia, highlighting some of the judicial problems faced in post-Soviet countries as well as the importance of the international community in humanitarian crises. The scholar showcased a trailer for an upcoming documentary about the dangers she and her husband faced under the increasingly unstable Georgian political...

“One Man's Iraq: Ten Thousand Years of Myth and Memory” with a renowned Iraqi archaeologist and visiting professor of archaeology and international studies at Brown. Introduced by Sarah Wilcox, deputy director of the Scholar Rescue Fund, and moderated by Christopher Lydon, a national media figure and visiting fellow at the Watson Institute. Iraq is a society that produced the first lasting work of literature, the saga of Gilgamesh, and it was the center of the human story for thousands of years....

Experts from Turkey, Russia, Europe and the U.S. discuss the 19th century conflict between Russia and the Circassians, and the role of contemporary Circassian nationalism in the future of the Circassians. Morning Panels Harvard Kennedy School Campus - Nye A 9:00-9:30 Breakfast 9:30-11:00 Panel One Stephen Shenfield, Johnson’s Russia List Irma Kreiten, Southhampton Univeristy Justin McCarthy, Louisville University Glen Howard, Jamestown Foundation 11:30-1:00 Panel Two Ibragim Yagan,...

New York University hosted a roundtable discussion on intellectual courage between NYU students and displaced scholars from China, Georgia, Pakistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo at NYU's Wagner School for Public Service. The scholars, all of whom have faced serious academic repression and, in some cases, physical abuse or imprisonment in their home countries, spoke about the dangers of political censorship and the importance of academic freedom in the modern world. Students discussed their...

Speaker series event held at Illinois Wesleyan featuring a Scholar at Risk from Georgia.

A scholar from Pakistan speaks at Bard College on the current events in Pakistan.

Mehrangiz Kar, a scholar from Iran assisted by the Scholars at Risk Network, will give a public lecture on women’s rights in Iran on March 11, 2008. Kar’s lecture, entitled “Under Attack: Women’s Rights in Iran,” addresses the struggle for women’s rights in Iran, focusing on the recent decision by the Iranian government to revoke the publishing license of Zanan, a women’s magazine. Kar’s visit is sponsored by the Office of International Studies. This visit aims to raise awareness about Illinois...

A SAR scholar from China will speak at Columbia University on March 11, 2008. He is a former Peking University law lecturer and founder of an opposition party in China. He has spent time in prison, has published prize-winning papers and has translated several books. For more information, please contact Columbia Law School's Center for Chinese Legal Studies.

Jean Marie Kamatali, an academic from Rwanda assisted by Scholars at Risk, will give a public lecture on human rights in post-conflict societies on March 6, 2008. The event will be held from 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm at Davis Learning Center auditorium on Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Prescott campus. Kamatali’s visit will be part of the Honors Program’s Distinguished Guest Lecture Series, which features writers, scholars and scientists to provide diverse outlooks on the changing world. As the...

Mehrangiz Kar, lawyer and human rights activist, and a visiting scholar this year at the Newhouse Center, spoke about the recent decision by the Iranian government to revoke the publishing license of the independent Iranian women's magazine, Zanan. The lunch and talk took place on Thursday, February 28th, from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. at the Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College.

Boston-area universities and colleges interested in the SAR network were invited to a meeting at Wellesley College on February 27, 2008, where SAR Program Officer, Clare Robinson, and a SAR scholar from Iraq discussed the network. Any universities and colleges interested in learning more about the network or interested in hosting an informational meeting should contact the SAR office at scholarsatrisk@nyu.edu.

SAR staff, representatives and scholars spoke on a SAR panel on "Internationalizing Campus by Hosting Threatened Scholars" at this event.

Learn firsthand about the plight of endangered scholars around the world from a panel of scholars who have faced imprisonment, been forced into exile from their home countries to escape persecution, or were denied a visa to speak in the United States. This event is the first of several that will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the University in Exile at The New School and announces the new feature in Social Research, "Endangered Scholars Worldwide." Cosponsored by Social Research:...

CHICAGO, IL – In light of the controversial tenure denials of eminent Middle East scholar Norman G. Finkelstein and International Studies professor Mehrene Larudee earlier last year at DePaul University, prominent scholars from across the country are coming together for a two-day conference at DePaul, on February 1-2, to lecture about the threats facing academic freedom and Middle Eastern studies at universities. In addition to DePaul's cases, the efforts to silence scholars such as John...

A SAR scholar from Iran will be speaking at Rutgers University on Monday, December 17th about the current human rights situations in Iran.

Harvard University invited SAR staff to visit the scholars currently hosted on campus. A lunch was held during which the five scholars shared their experiences and spoke with SAR staff about their futures.

A Zimbabwean scholar discussed human rights and academic freedom issues in Africa with a group of over thirty-five undergraduates at NYU on November 10th. Touching on his own experiences in the classroom in Africa and drawing on comments made by the students, the scholar advised the students on promoting understanding of these issues within their communities.

CGCS will be holding a one-day workshop on the measurements of press freedom around the world. In this workshop, we aim to compare the underlying philosophies and priorities informing the construction of various media indices, discuss their strengths and shortcomings, and have an open debate about uses and misuses of the indices among the NGO, donor, government and academic communities, as well as by the media themselves.

Felix Kaputu, a scholar-at-risk and professor at Purchase College in New York, spoke to a crowd of Amnesty International activists on November 3rd, 2007. Dr. Kaputu reflected on his experiences as a persectued academic in the Democratic Republic of Congo and thanked AI for their efforts to secure his release.

Dr. Ratnajeevan Hoole, a Sri Lankan academic assisted by Scholars at Risk, will give a public lecture on academic freedom and human rights, including a discussion on his experiences as a scholar in Sri Lanka. The event will be held on November 12 from 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm at [LECTURE HALL] on the University of Richmond campus. Hoole’s visit is sponsored by the Office of International Education. This visit aims to raise awareness about the University of Richmond’s participation in the Scholars at...

Dr. Ratnajeevan Hoole, a Sri Lankan academic assisted by Scholars at Risk, will give a public lecture on academic freedom and human rights, including a discussion on his experiences as a scholar in Sri Lanka. The event will be held on November 12 from 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm at [LECTURE HALL] on the University of Richmond campus. Hoole’s visit is sponsored by the Office of International Education. This visit aims to raise awareness about the University of Richmond’s participation in the Scholars at...

Dr. Taye Woldesmiate, a visiting professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, gave a lecture on human rights, civil society and democracy in Africa on October 10th at the University of Richmond. Woldesmiate reflected on his experiences as a scholar and as president of the Ethiopian Teachers’ Association, discussing the situation facing Ethiopia today.

Dr. Nega was held as a political prisoner in Ethiopia for almost two years, along with thousands of others in the current government's crackdown on dissent. Recently released from prison, he was in New York to share his experiences at his alma mater, The New School for Social Research on Thursday, September 6th at 7:30 pm. at Swayduck Auditorium at 65 Fifth Ave.

The University of San Francisco and the Scholars at Risk Network, in cooperation with the USF Center for Law and Global Justice, USF Human Rights Working Group, McCarthy Center for Public Good, the Peace Review, and the USF Journal of Law and Social Challenges are organizing a symposium on “Human Rights and Academic Repression.”

SAR's Biennial Network Meeting will be held on April 13, 2007 in San Francisco. The meeting is open to all SAR members, Partner Network members, affiliates and registered prospective members. Following the meeting on April 14, 2007 SAR will co-sponsor with the University of San Francisco a symposium, "Human Rights & Academic Repression" exploring the intersections--existing and potential--between international human rights principles, standards and techniques and traditional understandings of...

Iranian human rights advocate and scholar Mehrangiz Kar will visit the University of Richmond as part of its Scholars at Risk program on March 26, 2007. Kar will give a public lecture on human rights and democracy, reflecting on her experiences as a scholar in Iran.

Panel discussion on Scholars at Risk at the 2007 International Studies Association Annual Conference.

Rollins College will host a scholar from Zimbabwe* assisted by Scholars at Risk as a visiting guest lecturer on February 12-14, 2007.

The Modern Language Association hosted a panel on Scholars at Risk at the December 2006 Annual Convention.

A panel discussion on the current threats to scholars and universities in Iraq. Co-sponsored by the University College London, Council for Assisting Refugee Academics, and CARA/SAR UK Universities Network.

Chair: Dina Rizk Khoury, George Washington U Rob Quinn, Director, Scholars at Risk Network SAR Scholars from Iraq MESA, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) have issued joint statements expressing alarm at the current state of higher education in Iraq, with particular attention focused on the atmosphere of lawlessness and violence that places Iraqi academics in extreme peril. In this session, Iraqi academics...

Cascadia Community College and University of Washington Bothell celebrate International Education Week with a speaker from the Scholars At Risk Network. The event will take place on Thursday, November 16th at 7pm in the Northcreek Events Center on the shared campus in Bothell, Washington. The visiting scholar will be speaking about global human rights issues coupled with the power of media. This event is sponsored by Cascadia's International Club, Cascadia Student Government, Cascadia Activities...

Come see this riveting documentary and hear remarks from Obang Methos on the crisis of democracy in Ethiopia and get a unique insider’s view into responsibility and change in the Horn of Africa. Co-Sponsored by the New York City Bar Association International Human Rights Committee, Scholars at Risk, NYU Africa House, and NYU Law Students for Human Rights.

A Faculty Forum on the Scholars at Risk network, set to run from noon-2 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 25, in multipurpose rooms A and B in the Trabant University Center, will feature as its keynote speaker a professor of linguistics from Rwanda, whose name is being withheld for personal safety reasons.

The inaugural meeting and launch of the CARA-SAR UK Network that works to assist threatened and refugee scholars in the UK. NYU President John Sexton spoke at the event.

A scholar* from Afghanistan assisted by Scholars at Risk (SAR) gave a public lecture at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, December 6, in Goucher College’s Merrick Lecture Hall. His lecture reflected on challenges facing intellectuals in developing countries, drawing in particular on his own experiences as a scholar in Afghanistan. *Name withheld

Robert Quinn, Director of Scholars at Risk and the Scholar Rescue Fund, attends the launch of the Cymru Refugees & Asylum Seekers Academic Council (CRAC) which provides information about access to Higher Education and sources of potential funders.

Haverford College hosts a SAR/SRF scholar from Afghanistan as guest speaker. The scholar's lecture was given at the opening plenary at the Friends Association for Higher Education's conference entitled "Centering on the Edge: Intellect, Spirit, Action." Robert Quinn, director of SAR, introduced the scholar and discussed the work of Scholars at Risk and the IIE Scholar Rescue Fund to assist threatened scholars.

Scholars at Risk held its network meeting and conference themed “Global Strategies for Defending Academic Freedom” on April 28-29th at New York University.

Host, Dick Gordon, broadcasts a segment on free thinking and free expression, highlighting Scholars at Risk as an organization on the frontlines of academic freedom. Director, Rob Quinn, and two Scholars were guests on the show.

Mehrangiz Kar, an Iranian scholar, visits UC Davis campus as a Scholars at Risk speaker. The event was featured in The California Aggie, a UC Davis campus newspaper.

At Amnesty International USA's Midwest Regional Conference in St. Louis University, MO, SAR scholar Mohammed Maimul Khan delivered a speech entitled, "Working to Globalize Justice; the Future of the Human Rights Movement."