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Join us on May 10th for the 6th Annual New University in Exile Consortium Scholars' Conference featuring a keynote address from Dr. Michael Ignatieff.
There will be two panels: “The Role of the Academy in Challenging Authoritarianism, Violence, and in Post-Conflict Situations” and “The Experiences of Exiled Scholars.” More information will be available soon.
Each spring, the Consortium convenes a public academic conference organized by our hosted scholars. The conference provides a platform for scholars to call attention to threats to academic freedom.
Presented by the New University in Exile Consortium.
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Canadian author, academic and former politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition from 2008 until 2011. Known for his work as a historian, Ignatieff has held senior academic posts at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, and Toronto. Most recently, he was rector and President of Central European University; he held this position from 2016 until July 2021.
Panel 1: “The Role of the Academy in Challenging Authoritarianism, Violence, and in Post-Conflict Situations”
Moderator: Dr. Mohamad Moustafa Alabsi
Panelists:
Dr. Pius Mosima, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Dr. Paweł Leszkowicz, Adam Mickiewicz University
Dr. Tomeka Kitliński, Academy of the Arts in Szczecin/Stettin.
Dr. Sid Naing, Yale University
Moderator: Dr. Mohamad Moustafa Alabsi
Panelists:
Dr. Abdul Momin Mansoor, University of North Dakota
Dr. Yin Yin Win, Yale University
The New University in Exile 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 more than 150 exiled scholars from 29 countries.
Is your institution interested in joining the Consortium? Here’s how!
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