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Please join us online for the 8th Annual New University in Exile Consortium Scholar's Conference.
The 2026 Annual Conference, titled “Knowledge at Risk,” will convene Consortium scholars from across the social sciences, humanities, law, and related fields to examine how knowledge production, academic freedom, and truth-telling are threatened in contexts of war, authoritarianism, censorship, forced migration, and political repression. Globally, scholars face numerous challenges, including displacement, surveillance, silencing, and institutional collapse, while universities and research infrastructures are increasingly targeted or constrained. These conditions not only affect individual scholars but also the circulation of ideas and critical inquiry.
Speakers at the conference will examine how knowledge is produced, protected, reshaped, or constrained in contexts of risk and uncertainty. This conference aims to foster dialogue across regions and disciplines, providing a platform for analytical and reflective contributions. It also offers an opportunity for scholars to share their different experiences in continuing to produce knowledge despite the risks and restrictions imposed on them.
We will have a keynote presentation by Nancy Fraser, Henry and Louise A. Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research.
“Antisemitism, Philosemitism, and the New McCarthyism”
4:30PM ET
Presented by The New University in Exile Consortium at The New School for Social Research.
By joining this online event, you will be prompted to accept Zoom Terms of Service. If the session is recorded, you acknowledge that by participating, your name, phone number, and profile picture might be visible to the public. You can customize your personal information when creating your Zoom account. The New School may use any recorded material from the event.
Nancy Fraser is the Henry and Louise A. Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research and a member of the Editorial Committee of New Left Review. Trained as a philosopher, she specializes in critical social theory and political philosophy. Widely known for her work on the relation between redistribution and recognition in the theory of justice, she works now on the relation of capitalism to racial oppression, social reproduction, ecological crisis, feminist movements, and the rise of rightwing populism.
Moderated by Dilan Bozgan, Emerging Scholars Fellow, Columbia Global Centers–Santiago
Franklim Colletti, Emerging Scholars Fellow, Columbia Global Centers–Santiago; "Knowledge through Exhaustion: Academic Precarization and Epistemic Reorganization in Contemporary Venezuela"
Anouar Rahmani, Algerian writer and human rights advocate; "Creative Writing, Imagination, and Symbol as Encoded Knowledge in Times of Risk"
Waheedullah Saghar, Fellow, University in Exile for Afghan Artists, The New School; "Exiled Melodies: Academic Repression and the Loss of Musical Knowledge in Afghanistan"
Moderated by Naima Mohammadi, Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Moustafa Alabsi, Political philosopher; "Higher Education and the Rebuilding of Knowledge in Post-Assad Syria"
Demet Bolat Erkoc, William & Sally Searle Research Fellow, University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities; "Anti-genderism as Epistemic Conflict: Queer and Feminist Knowledge amid the Displacement of Gender Studies in Turkey"
Anton Burkov, International human rights scholar-practitioner; "The Criminalisation of Collaboration: Isolating Russian Knowledge Production through "Foreign Agent" and "Undesirable” Laws"
Abdulqawi Hazaea, Emerging Scholars Fellow, Columbia Global Centers–Amman; "Knowledge at Risk: Teaching, Censorship, and Academic Survival in Yemen"
The Consortium is a globally expanding group of colleges and universities in the U.S., Bangladesh, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, the Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Each institutional member is committed to hosting at least one threatened scholar every year and these exiled hosted scholars constitute our scholar cohort. We work with them individually and together to try and lessen the profound sense of dislocation which exiled scholars suffer and which adversely impacts their intellectual and personal lives. Since 2021, the Consortium has expanded its mission to include finding placements for threatened Afghan and Ukrainian academics, students, and artists at Consortium member institutions.
Established in September 2018, the Consortium follows in the tradition of The New School’s original University in Exile created by The New School’s first President, Alvin Johnson, in 1933. The first University in Exile became the home of rescued, largely Jewish endangered scholars from Germany and France. Today, members of the New University in Exile Consortium are hosting nearly 300 exiled scholars from 29 countries.
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