04/17/2019
The New School's first president Alvin Johnson and cohort of exiled scholars launched Social Research: An International Quarterly in 1934 to maintain that every true university must have its own distinct public voice.
On April 26, we continue on with New University in Exile Consortium's very first conference Academic Institutions Under Attack: Freedom of Inquiry at Risk, at which the exiled scholars hosted by Consortium institutions will speak.
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Here's why you should attend New University in Exile Consortium's Spring Conference: Academic Institutions Under Attack: Freedom of Inquiry at Risk at The New School.
The New University in Exile Consortium is an initiative morally mandated by The New School 's past as the home of the first University in Exile in 1933, created in response to the current alarming increase in the persecution of scholars worldwide and the increasing attacks on academic freedom. We are living at a time when scholars around the world are under attack. In some places, universities have been shuttered or destroyed; many scholars have been purged from their faculty positions; others seek safety from conflicts that have riven their countries.
On April 26, exiled scholars hosted by The NUIEC will speak on the attacks on universities and academic freedom in their home countries and how this has affected their lives. The student speakers will be sharing their experiences as an endangered scholar in countries such as Azerbaijan, Cambodia, India, Iran, and Turkey. These scholars are hosted by Barnard College, Trinity College, Wellesley College, Columbia University in the City of New York, Rutgers University, Connecticut College, Harvard University and The New School.
This is your chance to learn about what's happening in the world and of the role that the University, academia, and YOU play in the fight for protecting academic freedom.
Go here >> https://bit.ly/2UweUTM to register. | #NSSRNews #EndangeredScholars #TheNewSchool
📷: In Ankara, police trample academic regalia laid down in protest against the dismissal of academics from universities.