Conference

Global Launch of Free to Think 2023

Register to attend the conference here. (Note: Zoom registration is for both days of the conference). Join us for the formal launch of Free To Think 2023! The report, released on October 31, 2023, analyzes 409 attacks on the higher

European Student Advocacy Days at the University of Trento

Scholars at Risk, in collaboration with the University of Trento, the University of Padova, and SAR Italy, and co-funded by the European Union, invites students and faculty to join us December 14-15 at the University of Trento for European Student

Second regional conference on academic freedom in the Americas

Save the date! On November 9 and 10, join us online and in Curitiba, Brazil for the Second Regional Conference on Academic Freedom in the Americas, organized by the Coalition for Academic Freedom in the Americas (CAFA) and hosted by

SAR Partner Event: Supporting and Learning from Universities in Times of Conflict

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/supporting-and-learning-from-universities-in-times-of-conflict-tickets-582363353467 This symposium is organised by the Political Economy of Education Research Network (PEER), a GCRF-funded 3-year collaboration between the Universities of Cape Town, Nazarbayev, Sussex and Ulster, to support critical research and analysis of education in times

Chicago: 80th Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference | April 13 – 15, 2023

Scholars at Risk will attend the 80th Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference from April 13-15 in Chicago. Individuals interested in connecting with SAR at the event can visit SAR’s booth in the exhibition hall or email Ayodele Abinusawa at

Inaugural regional conference on academic freedom in the Americas

Join us November 10-11 online and in Monterrey, Mexico, for the First Regional Conference on Academic Freedom in the Americas, organized by the Coalition for Academic Freedom in the Americas and hosted by Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico. The conference will

Barcelona 2022: 32nd Annual EAIE Conference and Exhibition

Scholars at Risk will attend the EAIE 32nd Annual EAIE Conference and Exhibition from September 13-16 in Barcelona, Spain. Individuals interested in connecting with SAR at the event can visit SAR’s stand in the exhibition hall and/or email Miriam Alphonsus

LIBERTAS. Spaces and practices of academic freedom, June 22-24, 2022

To celebrate eight centuries of commitment to the protection and promotion of academic freedom and to revive such commitment the University of Padova, in collaboration with Scholars at Risk Italy and Scholars at Risk Europe, is organising an international conference to discuss LIBERTAS. Spaces

Free Ahmed Samir! Conference on Academic Freedom in Egypt

In February 2021, Ahmed Samir Santawy, Egyptian student and researcher at Central European University in Vienna, was arbitrarily detained and imprisoned by the Egyptian government. He is currently in ongoing solitary confinement. As one year since Ahmed’s disappearance approaches, CEU will host the Free Ahmed Samir! Conference on Academic Freedom in Egypt on Tuesday, January

Reimagining Academic Freedom – Open Society University Network Global Observatory on Academic Freedom First Bi-Annual Conference

The GOAF First Bi-Annual Conference will launch the work of the Global Observatory on Academic Freedom. The conference will present the findings of the Annual Report 2020/2021 and accompanying papers, liaise with the academic community – researchers in the field,

Afghanistan, il futuro negato

Evento sia in PRESENZA che ONLINE Il ritorno dei talebani, 40 anni di guerra, un popolo in fuga. Un confronto sulle cose che si possono fare per creare un domani alla popolazione afghana. Associazione 46°Parallelo/AtlanteGuerre con Afgana, il supporto della

Academic Freedom, Free Speech and Thinking for Yourself

The Inaugural Global Ideas Lecture: Academic Freedom, Free Speech and Thinking for Yourself Event Date: November 1, 2021 – 1:00pm to 2:30pm EST Location: online Presented by CIPS & The University Research Chair on Global Political Thought Registration: Eventbrite Academic freedom is threatened from without—by authoritarian

Language and the problems of justice: A conference to mark one year of Hany Babu’s imprisonment

Friends of Hany Babu, in collaboration with Scholars at Risk and The Institute for Post-Colonial Studies, will host a virtual conference titled Language and the problems of justice: A conference to mark one year of Hany Babu’s imprisonment. The conference

Conference on Studies of Belonging

We invite you to join us during this three-day interdisciplinary working conference, where we collaboratively sketch the landscape of Belonging as an academic and artistic field, with the aim to set up a research agenda and future interdisciplinary and international

Academic Freedom and Intellectual Dissent Online Conference

This conference will focus on the importance of intellectual dissent and academic freedom to democratic societies in a Western, particularly European, context. The speakers and the panel will discuss the scope and the limits of academic freedom in the context