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Tuesday, October 10, 2023

SAR Carleton’s Norah Vollmer is honoured by the Institute of International Education-Scholar Rescue Fund

SAR Carleton is delighted to share the news that Norah Vollmer, who has been a key member of SAR since its inception at Carleton a decade ago, has been honoured with a Certificate of Appreciation by the Institute of International Education (IIE). The IIE funds the Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF), one of the key... More

Sunday, October 8, 2023

Placement, Preservation and Perseverance: Afghan scholars, students and activists 1st Annual Conference to be held at Carleton, Nov. 2-3, 2023

The first annual conference of the "Placement, Preservation and Perseverance: Afghan scholars, students and activists" (PPP) research project will be held at Carleton University on November 2-3. The PPP is a collaboration between Carleton University and the University of British Columbia, and supported by the government of Canada’s International... More

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Carleton SAR Scholar Illia Kononov publishes an article on the geopolitics of Ukrainian refugees in NATO countries

Professor Illia Kononov, who has been a visiting professor from Ukraine since May 2022, recently published an article in the most recent issue of the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, titled "Ukrainian refugees of the period of the Russian-Ukrainian war in NATO countries: the geopolitical context of the military migration crisis." The article... More

Monday, June 5, 2023

War and the University in Yemen

SAR Carleton's Prof. Mustafa Bahran (Department of Physics), along with Dr. Waheeba Fare'e, discuss the ongoing conflict in Yemen and its fallout for higher education. This is an episode in the ongoing podcast series "Universities and Crisis", which explores the social, economic and political forces shaping higher education today. Each month, Jee... More

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

“‘They cannot incarcerate my mind’: Carleton groups advocate for at-risk scholars.” Kyra Vellinga profiles SAR Carleton and Academia and Activism course

Carleton student Kyra Vellinga has published a feature-length article in The Charlatan on SAR Carleton's current work, as well as a profile of the work done by students in Prof. Melanie Adrian's Academia and Activism seminar. Click here to link to her... More

Sunday, April 2, 2023

UN Human Rights Council: 72 Countries urge greater cooperation to protect academic freedom

Scholars at Risk (SAR) commends France, South Africa, and 70 other countries around the globe who came together today before the United Nations Human Rights Council to issue an historic Joint Statement in support of Academic Freedom. SAR Executive Director Rob Quinn remarked on the statement: “As the signatories acknowledged, attacks against... More

Monday, February 27, 2023

SAR Free to Think Conversation at Carleton on March 23, 2023

Join us for SAR Free to Think Conversation at Carleton on Thursday, March 23, 2023, 1:00-3:00 p.m.. This interactive panel discussion will take place in-person (MacOdrum Library, Rm 252) or virtually on Zoom. Please register to receive Zoom link HERE. Speakers: Sarah Willcox, Deputy Director of SAR International James King, Director of Scholars... More

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Newsroom Profile: Carleton Community’s efforts to protect at-risk scholars from Afghanistan and Ukraine

Dan Rubinstein of Carleton's newsroom recently published this account of the various efforts being undertaken by a network of Carleton groups working to provide protection for exiled academics, refugee students, and immigrant communities in general. Read it here: Academic Refugees: At-Risk Scholars from Afghanistan and Ukraine Get a Safe Haven at... More

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

SAR Carleton nominated for the Alfonso García Robles Honorary Prize

The Scholars at Risk Committee at Carleton is delighted to announce that it has been nominated by the Canadian satellite school of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), based in Gatineau, Québec, for The Alfonso García Robles Prize, given to "outstanding organizations or individuals working in favour of the rights of migrant... More

Thursday, April 28, 2022

How SAR Carleton is responding to the crisis in Ukraine: a letter from our chairs

Carleton University is a member of the international Scholars at Risk network, having an active SAR Committee since 2014. There are now just over 30 SAR chapters at Canadian Universities, but Carleton has been among one of the first and most active in the country in part, it must be said, because of the... More

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

SAR Carleton’s Shuchi Karim speaks on “Scholar Activism” for the Vivian G. Prins Scholars at Risk Speaker Series

Dr. Shuchi Karim, a researcher at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton, is a guest speaker at the Vivian G. Prins Scholars at Risk Speaker Series, in cooperation with the Global Psychology Alliance. On April 5, 2022 at 1 p.m. Dr. Karim will address the unique challenges facing scholar activists who must combine personal... More

Thursday, March 24, 2022

Carleton Partners with UBC to Help Afghan Scholars Find a New Intellectual Home in Canada

By Karen Kelly Researchers at Carleton and UBC are joining forces to help scholars and others who are fleeing the crisis in Afghanistan establish a new intellectual community in Canada. Their project, “Placement, Preservation and Perseverance: Afghan At-Risk Scholars, Activists and Students” has received a $1.096 million dollar grant from the... More

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