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When scholars are forced into exile, the work of protection is only the beginning. During this webinar, university liaisons to the New University in Exile Consortium will discuss how hosting endangered scholars creates dynamic spaces of exchange—expanding cultural understanding, deepening intellectual inquiry, and reinforcing the defense of academic freedom. Learn how institutions can move beyond safe haven to build vibrant communities rooted in solidarity, reciprocity, and the shared pursuit of knowledge.
Presented by The New University in Exile Consortium.
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Nathan takes the lead in managing relationships with multilateral organizations, works with faculty on strategic partnerships, and facilitates the collection of partnership data. He staffs the Yale Scholars at Risk initiative and serves as chair of the steering committee for the Scholars at Risk Network’s US section. He also manages the Yale and the World Partnership Fund, is Yale’s Fulbright Scholar Liaison, and a fellow and advisor at Morse College.
Raised in a bilingual immigrant household, Anita began studying languages and cultures at an early age. She created an interdisciplinary major at Wheaton College, IL, called "Culture and Development" and minored in Human Needs and Global Resources which included a six month internship in Uganda. Anita has held positions at Fairfield University and Trinity College before landing at Wesleyan in the summer of 2022. She has experience working in career counseling, international education, international students, and intercultural learning.
Ms. Iris Vernekohl is currently Senior Policy Advisor for Internationalization and Global Engagement at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany, where she directs the Scholars at Risk Program. She is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Scholars at Risk Network-Germany Section and chair of the Utrecht Network Task Force “Responsible Internationalization and Global Engagement: Promoting Academic Freedom and Academic Responsibility in International Higher Education”.
The Consortium is a globally expanding group of colleges and universities in the U.S., Bangladesh, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Lithuania, 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 that 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 30 countries.
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