Online event: Global Surge in Attacks on University Faculty & Students: What is to be done?

SAR’s Free to Think 2024 report finds that scholars and university students face frequent and pervasive attacks on their academic freedom and the autonomy of their institutions — from North America to the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. What are the causes and consequences? What can be done?

This event is cosponsored by Canadian Association of University Teachers and PEN Canada.

Panelists 

• Amy Kapit – Senior Program Officer for Advocacy for Scholars at Risk; author of 2024 Free to Think report on state of academic freedom worldwide
• Shuchi Karim – Research Chair Coordinator, International Development Research Centre Research Chairs Network on Forced Displacement, Carleton University
• Rob Quinn – Founding Executive Director of the Scholars at Risk Network; formerly Executive Director of the Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund
• Norah Vollmer – Manager of Faculty Affairs, Carleton University; Co-Chair, Carleton University Scholars at Risk program

Moderator

• Charles Reeve – Professor and Associate Dean of Arts & Science, OCAD University, and member, Scholars at Risk Canada Steering Committee

Zoom link to attend the event: torontomu.zoom.us/j/91941276567

See the event listing on the Centre for Free Expression – Toronto Metropolitan University website.