Meeting

SAR-United States & COVID-19: Responses & Remote Opportunities

Save the Date / SAR-United States & COVID-19: Responses & Remote Opportunities On Thursday, May 21st at 1:00pm EST, SAR will host a one-hour webinar over Zoom for primary representatives at member institutions and associations within the SAR-United States Section.

Sakharov Prize 2019 for Ilham Tohti

Ilham Tohti is the winner of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 2019. The prize will be awarded during a ceremony in the Parliament in Strasbourg on 18 December 2019.

Universities: Their Freedoms and Responsibilities: The Challenge of the Future.

Join us for the Annual Conference of the Magna Charta Observatory, 16 and 17 October 2019. The focus will be on academic freedom and the responsibilities which universities have for helping to achieve the UN sustainable development goals, particularly those

Higher Education Values in Practice: Integration of Highly Skilled Refugees and At-Risk Academics in Europe

This event will focus on academic values and the role of the higher education community in supporting students and scholars with a refugee background, and at-risk academics.

European Association for International Education Annual Conference

SAR membership staff will represent SAR at the annual European Association for International Education (EAIE) conference in Geneva.

15th IMISCOE Annual Conference

SAR staff and a Syrian scholar of archaeology to be featured speakers at the 2018 IMISCOE Annual Conference in Barcelona.

Dangerous Questions: Why Academic Freedom Matters

Join us at a special event organized by the EU-funded ‘Academic Refuge’ project. The project aims to improve the capacity of European universities to assist refugees and threatened academics and to promote understanding and respect for higher education values.

Seminar on Academic Freedom

SAR and the ACUP will organize a seminar on academic freedom and its importance for universities. The speakers will discuss the most critical challenges we must overcome to make academic freedom possible at both a European and global level.

PAUSE Program Anniversary Meeting

SAR European Director will represent SAR at the anniversary meeting of the PAUSE program in France, which was established 1 year ago to provide funding to higher education institutions and public research organizations planning to host at-risk scholars.

Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on Parliament Hill

This event recognizes the work that SAR does to protect scholars and advocate for academic freedom. It will include a luncheon in the Parliamentary restaurant with remarks from a SAR Scholar followed by a Q&A.

Scholars at Risk Session at 2017 Visegrad Summer School

The 2017 Visegrad Summer School, hosted by the Villa Decius Association in Krakow, will feature a session on Scholars at Risk on Thursday, July 6th.

Refugees in the arts & academia

The Jonge Academie and UAF-Scholars at Risk will host "Refugees in the arts & academia", an event bringing public attention to the issue of refugees in the arts sector and academia.

Seminar on Migration, Asylum and Social Inclusion in Higher Education and Research

Ella de Lange from the SAR-UAF network in the Netherlands and Belgium will represent SAR at a seminar in Brussels on Migration, Asylum and Social Inclusion in Higher Education and Research.

SAR USA Northeastern Regional Meeting

Scholars at Risk and Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island will host the first regional meeting of SAR Network members in the northeastern United States.

SAR Finland Section Launch

Representatives from universities across Finland will convene in Vaasa on May 8, 2017 to launch the Finnish section of Scholars at Risk.

The Future of Value-Based Higher Education and Quality Assurance – The Future of Academic Freedom

The Webinar debated the contours of academic freedom both as it relates to institutions and quality assurance: What rights and obligations are attached to it from a European, Latin American and Scholars at Risk perspectives, and how these concepts are

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Free Universities: Putting the Academic Freedom Index Into Action

This joint report by the Global Public Policy Institute and Scholars at Risk introduces the Academic Freedom Index (AFi), a new time series and near-global dataset on several dimensions of academic freedom. It calls on decision-makers in higher education and