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Free to Think podcast

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

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

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

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

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.

A Single Good Intention – SAR’s 20th Anniversary

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.

Presentation of the SAR Courage to Think Award for 2020

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

Academic Freedom Issues in China & Hong Kong

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

Academic Freedom & India’s Clampdown on Dissent

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

Yemen’s Universities Under Attack

Yemen’s Universities Under Attack

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

Turkey’s Academic Community in Paralysis

Turkey’s Academic Community in Paralysis

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

Academic Freedom Tensions in Europe: Issues & Opportunities

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

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

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

Academic Freedom in the MENA Region

Academic Freedom in the MENA Region

David Wheeler, Al-Fanar Media Dr. Hala Al-Dosari, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dr. Lisa Anderson, Scholars at Risk

Responses to the Turkey Crisis

Responses to the Turkey Crisis

Dr. Tuba İnal-Çekiç, Off-University Dr. Nil Mutluer, Humboldt University of Berlin, Academics for Peace Dr. Johannes Müller, University of Cologne

A Conversation with Dr. Laurel Leff (Northeastern University) and Robert Quinn (Scholars at Risk)

A Conversation with Dr. Laurel Leff (Northeastern University) and Robert Quinn (Scholars at Risk)

Robert Quinn, Scholars at Risk Dr. Laurel Leff, Northeastern University and author of Well Worth Saving: American Universities’ Life-and-Death Decisions on Refugees From Nazi Europe

Academic Freedom, Free Expression, and Civil Discourse

Academic Freedom, Free Expression, and Civil Discourse

Lara Schwartz, American University Project on Civil Discourse Dr. Hank Reichman, American Assoc. of University Professors Dr. Nancy Thomas, Inst. for Democracy and Higher Ed, Tufts University Michelle Deutchman, University of California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement

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20th Anniversary Report

The 20th Anniversary Report marks SAR’s first 20 years of protecting threatened scholars and promoting everyone’s freedom to think, question, and share ideas.

Free to Think 2020

Free to Think 2020 is the sixth installment of an annual report by SAR's Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, analyzing attacks on higher education communities around the world between September 1, 2019 and August 31, 2020.

Introducing Scholars at Risk

Scholars at Risk is an international network of institutions and individuals whose mission it is to protect scholars and promote academic freedom. Learn more about SAR’s mission and the courageous scholars we are honored to assist in the below video