Tuesday, November 22, 2022

SAR Carleton’s Annual Report is available!

Our Annual Report for 2021-2022 is now available here. In it, you will find all our news  from the past academic year, including our responses to the twin crises in Afghanistan and the war in Ukraine, and profiles of just a few of the exiled scholars who have contributed so much to our academic... 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

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Professor Mustafa Bahran published OpEd on the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Yemen

Mustafa Bahran, a visiting professor and instructor of physics at Carleton University, a member of the SAR Carleton Committee, and the ex-minister of electricity and energy in Yemen, published this Opinion piece in The Ottawa Citizen on March 22,... More

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Register now for Scholars at Risk Canada Student Advocacy Day: March 31, 2022

Join Canada’s first Scholars at Risk (SAR) Student Advocacy Days and engage with students, faculty, and community of activists working to promote and protect academic freedom and human rights! The SAR Canada Advocacy Day aims to bring together Canadian students at all academic levels, SAR student groups and representatives, as well as community... More

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Afghan women and girls make their mark in Canada: Carleton Journalist-in-Residence Farida Nekzad highlighted in IRCC News Release

This is the text of a March 11th News Release from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) on Canada's commitment to resettle 40,000 Afghan nationals in Canada. The story highlights the work of Afghan journalist Farida Nekzad who is currently the School of Journalism and Communication's Journalist-in-Residence at Carleton. News release... More

Monday, March 14, 2022

Urgent appeal to Carleton community for donations to help fleeing Ukrainian academics

The University is currently working with Carleton's Scholars At Risk initiative https://carleton.ca/scholars-at-risk/ to host academics fleeing Ukraine, and we need your help. Since 2015, Carleton's SAR committee has worked with the University community to host, for one to two years, academics fleeing Afghanistan, Syria, Turkey, Yemen, and other... More

Thursday, March 3, 2022

SAR International’s Statement on Ukraine

Yesterday, SAR International released the following statement on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Solidarity with the people of Ukraine and Ukrainian higher education Scholars at Risk stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine and with people around the world, including in Russia, in condemning the ongoing acts of aggression against the... More

Monday, February 28, 2022

More than 600 Russian scientists sign open letter against war with Ukraine

This article by science correspondent Jamie Durrani was posted in Chemistry World, the online magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Here's the link: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/more-than-600-russian-scientists-sign-open-letter-against-war-with-ukraine/4015292.article   "An open letter criticising the Russian invasion of Ukraine... More

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