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Monday, September 20, 2021

SAR: Urgent Calls for Help from Afghanistan

Join SAR’s Response  Universities, colleges, and other institutional members of the SAR Network have mobilized swiftly to create a range of opportunities to make a difference in protecting threatened scholars and practitioners from Afghanistan. As we respond to hundreds of urgent requests from individual scholars, activists, and civil society... More

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

SAR Carleton Scholar Mustafa Bahran writes on “The Yemeni Conundrum”

Former SRF-SAR Carleton Scholar and current visiting instructor in the Department of Physics, Mustafa Bahran, has published an article in Peace Magazine on the history of Yemen and its current civil war and its humanitarian crisis. The article will appear online shortly, but here is a PDF version.... More

Monday, March 22, 2021

Threats to academics: cross-country perspectives from Turkey, France and Switzerland / Menaces sur les universitaires : perspectives croisées depuis la Turquie, la France et la Suisse.

SAR Switzerland is hosting a webinar titled “ Threats to academics: cross-country perspectives from Turkey, France and Switzerland / Menaces sur les universitaires : perspectives croisées depuis la Turquie, la France et la Suisse” on March 30, 2021. The presentation will be in French. Nous vous proposons un évènement interrogeant les... More

Monday, March 15, 2021

The work of Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF)

For the past 100 years, IIE has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to providing threatened and displaced scholars with career-and life-saving support. IIE rescued its first scholars during the Bolshevik Revolution and has saved academics from nearly every world crisis since then—including this past year during the COVID-19 global pandemic. In... More

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

A Message from Carleton Advancement about the Campus Community Campaign

March 1 marks the beginning of the annual Campus Community Campaign–an opportunity to come together to support Carleton-led initiatives that are making a difference. Your collective contributions as faculty and staff help establish a culture of philanthropy on campus, creating an impact felt by our broader communities. As an integral member of... More

Monday, March 8, 2021

“Women’s Rights, Whatever the Cost.” The First Episode of Scholars at Risk Free to Think Podcast

Scholars at Risk announces the launch of a new podcast, Free to Think, featuring conversations with interesting, thoughtful, and inspiring individuals whose work falls at the always sensitive intersection of power and ideas. Episode 1, “Women’s Rights, Whatever the Cost,” launched March 8th in honor of International Women’s Day. It... More

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

“At Risk Scholars find new home at Carleton”: SAR profiled in Carleton News

Dan Rubinstein's new story profiles the work of Carleton's SAR Committee and the experiences of its past and present Scholars. Read Dan's article here:... More

Saturday, February 20, 2021

SAR Carleton’s Statement on the case of Professor Jan Grabowski

At its meeting on February 15, 2021, Carleton’s Scholars at Risk Committee voted unanimously to state its strong public support for Professor Jan Grabowski of the University of Ottawa’s Department of History, along with Prof. Barbara Engelking, a Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Their recent book, Night Without End: The... More

Saturday, February 20, 2021

SAR Canada announces new listserv to enhance sharing

SAR Canada has just created a new/additional listserv to allow us to share information about initiatives and events that are taking place within the SAR Canada community. The listserv is called "sarcanadafriends@uwo.ca". SAR members can still communicate through the original sarcanada@uwo.ca listserv to share information about the operations side... More

Tuesday, February 2, 2021

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 moderated by Professor Nandini Ramanujam of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism at McGill University. Esteemed panelists tackled the timely question of how to safeguard scholars, scholarship, and institutions of higher education in... More

Tuesday, February 2, 2021

SAR Carleton’s founder, Melanie Adrian, appointed to the Order of Ontario

(From the Carleton Newsroom, January 2, 2001) Carleton Prof. Melanie Adrian has been appointed to the Order of Ontario, the province’s highest honour, for establishing the university as a global leader in protecting vulnerable scholars and founding an organization to help cancer patients navigate the medical system. Adrian was among 47 people... More

Monday, February 1, 2021

Another successful Giving Tuesday for Carleton Scholars at Risk

Thanks to the generous contributions of our donors and the incredible support of Carleton University through its matching funds initiative, we are thrilled to announce that we raised $19,905 on Giving Tuesday! These funds will provide much-needed support for the at-risk scholars we are hosting here at Carleton. Thank you to all of our... More

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