Videos & Media

Free to Think podcast

Free to Think features conversation with interesting, thoughtful, and inspiring individuals whose research, teaching, or expression falls at the always sensitive intersection of power and ideas. We’ll be speaking with those who have the courage to seek truth and speak

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How to Host Workshop: Hosting Considerations

In this recorded segment of the 2022 How to Host workshop, hosting considerations are covered to include best practices and advice on identifying a SAR scholar, preparing for a scholar’s arrival, supporting a scholar during a visit, and roles of

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Webinar: Free Universities: Putting the Academic Freedom Index Into Action Through the UN Human Rights Systems

Free Universities: Putting the Academic Freedom Index Into Action Through the UN Human Rights Systems UN representatives, GPPi, FAU and SAR join together for a high-level webinar that presents the Academic Freedom Index (AFi) as a robust instrument that can

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Solidarity in the Time of Social Distancing: The Effects of COVID-19 on Knowledge Creation, Exchange, and Dissemination

On Human Rights Day, the Canadian Section of Scholars at Risk (SAR Canada) hosted a virtual roundtable, Solidarity in the Time of Social Distancing: The Effects of COVID-19 on Knowledge Creation, Exchange, and Dissemination.

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A Single Good Intention – SAR’s 20th Anniversary

This video illuminates the origins of our work and features a number of the courageous scholars we have been honored to support over the past twenty years.

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Presentation of the SAR Courage to Think Award for 2020

Robert Quinn, SAR Executive Director, Catharine Stimpson, SAR Board Chair, Clare Robinson, SAR Advocacy Director, Presentation of the 2020 SAR Courage to Think Award

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Academic Freedom Issues in China & Hong Kong

Fu Hualing, Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Associate Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs, UT Austin

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Academic Freedom & India’s Clampdown on Dissent

Nandini Sundar, Professor of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, Apoorvanand Jha, Professor of Hindi, Delhi University

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Yemen’s Universities Under Attack

Abdulghani Muthanna, Assoc. Prof., Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU), Noria Al-hossini, Mwatana for Human Rights

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Turkey’s Academic Community in Paralysis

Lülüfer Körükmez, Turkish Human Rights Foundation, Nil Mutluer, Humboldt University

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Academic Freedom Tensions in Europe: Issues & Opportunities

Sejal Parmar, Lecturer, University of Sheffield, Martina Darmanin, Human Rights & Solidarity Coordinator, European Students' Union (ESU), Sinead O'Gorman, SAR Europe Director

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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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