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2018 Courage to Think Award Dinner

2018 Courage to Think Award Dinner

COURAGE TO THINK AWARD PRESENTATION: Scholars at Risk Board Members present the 2018 Courage to Think Defender Award to Academics for Peace (Barış İçin Akademisyenler). WELCOME BY Robert Quinn, Executive Director, Scholars at Risk, PRESENTED BY Prof. Dr. Catharine R.

Concluding Plenary: The University & The Future of Democracy: Where Do We Go From Here?

Concluding Plenary: The University & The Future of Democracy: Where Do We Go From Here?

Concluding Plenary: The University & The Future of Democracy: Where Do We Go From Here?: MODERATOR: Dr. Herbert Grieshop, Freie Universität Berlin, REMARKS: Heidrun Tempel, Federal Foreign Office, CONCLUDING PANEL: Dr. Barbara Sheldon, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Robert Quinn, Scholars at Risk,

Central European University & the Case for Academic Freedom (Plenary)

Central European University & the Case for Academic Freedom (Plenary)

Wed. April 25 Afternoon Plenary: Dr. Liviu Matei, Provost and Pro-Rector, Central European University in conversation with Prof. Lisa Anderson, Columbia University, and Board Member of Scholars at Risk

Friends Forever? How to Assist/Continue Working With Scholars & Universities in Turkey (Plenary)

Friends Forever? How to Assist/Continue Working With Scholars & Universities in Turkey (Plenary)

Friends Forever? How to Assist/Continue Working With Scholars & Universities in Turkey: GREETINGS & OVERVIEW: Dr. Herbert Grieshop, Freie Universität Berlin, SCHOLAR VOICE: Dr. Zafer Yilmaz, University of Potsdam FRIENDS FOREVER? HOW TO ASSIST / CONTINUE WORKING WITH SCHOLARS & UNIVERSITIES

Movement Building: Students, Student Movements & Higher Education Values (Panel)

Movement Building: Students, Student Movements & Higher Education Values (Panel)

Movement Building: Students, Student Movements & Higher Education Values: Co-organized by SAIH: MODERATOR: Beathe Øgård, Norwegian Students’ and Academics’ International Assistance Fund (SAIH), Tamires Gomes Sampaio, União Nacional dos Estudantes, Fasiha Hassan, #FeesMustFall Movement, South Africa, and Mostafa El-Sayed Hussain,

Current Threats to Scholars & Universities: China & Hong Kong

Current Threats to Scholars & Universities: China & Hong Kong

Current Threats to Scholars & Universities: China & Hong Kong: MODERATOR: Christopher Tremewan, Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), Paul Mooney, Freelance Journalist, and Dr. Eva Pils, King’s College London

Courage to Think: Iran

Courage to Think: Iran

Courage to Think: Iran: Rezvan Moghaddam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, in conversation with Dr. Olga Hünler, University of Bremen

Legal Issues Related to Hosting a Threatened Scholar In Germany

Legal Issues Related to Hosting a Threatened Scholar In Germany

Legal Issues Related to Hosting a Threatened Scholar In Germany: Dr. Stephan Hocks

Courage to Think: U.S.

Courage to Think: U.S.

Courage to Think: U.S.: Prof. Laurie Rubel, City University of New York, Brooklyn College, in conversation with Dr. Julie Schmid, American Association of University Professors (AAUP)

North American Higher Education Internationalization & the Role of Visiting Scholars (Co-organized by CONAHEC)

North American Higher Education Internationalization & the Role of Visiting Scholars (Co-organized by CONAHEC)

North American Higher Education Internationalization & the Role of Visiting Scholars Co-organized by CONAHEC: MODERATOR: Dr. Gabriela Valdez, Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration (CONAHEC), Thomas Buntru, University of Monterrey, and Jeff Derksen & Shaheen Nanji, Simon Fraser University

Current Challenges to Scholars & Universities: Russia, Poland, Belarus (Panel)

Current Challenges to Scholars & Universities: Russia, Poland, Belarus (Panel)

Current Challenges to Scholars & Universities: Russia, Poland, Belarus: MODERATOR: Michael Hall, Open Society Foundations, Dr. Tatsiana Chulitskaya, European Humanities University, Dr. Dmitry Dubrovskiy, Centre for Independent Social Research, and Prof. Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska, Jagiellonian University in Krakow

Current Threats to Scholars & Universities: Egypt (Panel)

Current Threats to Scholars & Universities: Egypt (Panel)

Current Threats to Scholars & Universities: Egypt: MODERATOR: Prof. Lisa Anderson, Columbia University, SAR Board, Mohamed Abdel Salam, Association of Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE), and Kholoud Saber Barakat, Catholic University of Louvain

Courage to Think: Serbia

Courage to Think: Serbia

Courage to Think: Serbia: Dr. Sreten Ugričić, University of Lucerne, in conversation with Dr. Dominika Kasprowicz, Villa Decius Association

Mentorship & Peer-to-Peer Projects for At-Risk & Refugee Academics & Students (Panel)

Mentorship & Peer-to-Peer Projects for At-Risk & Refugee Academics & Students (Panel)

Mentorship & Peer-to-Peer Projects for At-Risk & Refugee Academics & Students: MODERATOR: Dr. Florian Kohstall, Freie Universität Berlin / AGYA, Dr. Anas al Khabour, University of Gothenburg, Dr. Tuba İnal Çekiç, Off-University, and Djemila Carron, InZone

Looking for Careers Outside of Academia: University Advisory Services on Qualifications & Technology Transfer (Panel)

Looking for Careers Outside of Academia: University Advisory Services on Qualifications & Technology Transfer (Panel)

Looking for Careers Outside of Academia: University Advisory Services on Qualifications & Technology Transfer: Dr. Gergana Baeva & Bertram Welker, Freie Universität Berlin — Dahlem Research School, and Dr. Christine Reuter, Freie Universität Berlin — Profund Innovation

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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

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