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Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Global Surge in Attacks on University Faculty & Students: What is to be done?

Join Us for a Critical Discussion on Global Surge Attacks on University Faculty & Students: What Can Be Done? Date: Tuesday, November 26th Time: 3:00 PM EST Webinar Link: Global Surge Attacks: What Can Be Done? RSVP here: Facebook Event This important webinar will explore the increasing threats facing university faculty and students worldwide... More

Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Nataliia Kononova: Mysteries near the Waterfall

Nataliia Kononova: Mysteries near the Waterfall Carleton University - Maxwell MacOdrum Library   With your financial support, Carleton University will emerge as a global leader in the fight for academic freedom and human rights. Support Scholars at Risk by funding our efforts to provide a safe environment within our institution for scholars... More

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

From At-Risk Scholars to Global Advocates – How SAR Carleton Empowers Visiting Scholars to Make an Impact

 In countries around the world, scholars regularly face a variety of challenges and threats related to their personal and academic beliefs, practices and teachings. In some cases, at-risk scholars feel they have no choice but to leave their home countries in order to protect themselves and their families—thereby seeking refuge in new countries... More

Thursday, October 10, 2024

Scholars at Risk “Free to Think 2024” Report

Scholars at Risk's international office in New York publishes a yearly survey of attacks on higher education around the world. This year, the report documents 391 such attacks in 51 different countries and territories. To quote the report's preamble: "Free to Think 2024 demonstrates that attacks on scholars, students, and universities are... More

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

3 ways Canada can welcome and support scientists displaced by war and persecution

As we acknowledge the 10th anniversary of the Scholars at Risk program at Carleton University, we look forward to further discussions on this important topic, as reviewed in this article co-authored by Norah Vollmer and Christina Clark-Kazak for The Conversation Canada Read the article here: "3 ways Canada can welcome and support scientists... More

Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Evaluation Report – Navigating the Canadian Context for Scholars at Risk

Before the summer zooms past, we are so proud to profile a valuable Scholars at Risk program effort and a resulting summary report you can review via the link below. Together with course developer Megan Graham, SAR Carleton co-Chair and SAR Canada Steering Committee member Norah Vollmer hosted a series of 9 workshops for... More

Monday, July 15, 2024

Struggle Across Borders: Report on the Experience and Needs of Exiled Activists and Human Rights Defenders in Canada

SAR Carleton is pleased to share this June 2024 report produced by two Ottawa-based NGOs working with exiled activists and human rights defenders: Resilient Societies and Cooperation Canada. The report, titled "Struggles Across Borders: Report on the Experience and Needs of Exiled Activists and Human Rights Defenders in Canada", outlines the same... More

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

A Successful Scholars at Risk 2024 Global Congress

With Canada Day quickly approaching, I am beyond proud to share what a privilege, honour and personal milestone it was for me to represent Canada and Carleton University at the 2024 Scholars at Risk (SAR) Congress, held this week in Vilnius, Lithuania. My mission while in attendance was to learn from global SAR programs... More

Monday, June 17, 2024

From War Zone to Graduate: Afghan Refugee Crosses the Stage Three Years After Fleeing

Award-winning Afghan journalist Farida Nekzad will graduate from Carleton’s School of Journalism and Communication on June 18, 2024 after fleeing the Taliban in the summer of 2021. With the help of Carleton’s president and provost, the dean of the Faculty of Public Affairs, and the Scholars at Risk program, she became a Journalist in... More

Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Photo Gallery: Scholars at Risk Summit Opening Night (November 20, 2023)

Photo credit: Mike Pinder... More

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

November is SAR Carleton’s Academic Freedom Month!

The defence of academic and intellectual freedom lies at the heart of everything Scholars at Risk's global network does. This month, SAR Carleton is supporting a number of initiatives dedicated to the support of research freedom everywhere. On November 2 and 3, Carleton hosted the first annual Placement, Preservation and Perseverance: Afghan... More

Monday, October 23, 2023

Shuchi Karim publishes article in new book, Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice (2023)

SAR committee member Shuchi Karim has just published an article on the LGBTQI+ movement in Bangladesh titled: "Politics of identities: Problematics of categories, labels and languages in LGBTQI+ movement in Bangladesh." The chapter is in Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice: Unpacking Dominant Development and Policy Discourses (Routledge,... More

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