News and Updates
Decolonizing and Deconstructing the MENA/SWANA: Free Online Seminar Spring 2022
Hosted on Zoom – Register for link April 19 – July 22, 2022 Wednesdays 7:00am – 9:00am Eastern Time Description: The Middle East and North Africa, SWANA, is of great strategic importance, as it has a large part of the… Continue reading→
Ukraine Statement of Support
We, members of the American and international academic community, professors and students alike, emphatically condemn the Russian military aggression against Ukraine and its contempt for international law. We stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine, we are humbled by… Continue reading→
“Amid Crisis in Ukraine, Brown Community Unites to provide support, host discussions”
Published by Brown News, on March 3, 2022 Brown, in partnership with University in Exile Consortium and Scholars at Risk, is working to provide a safe academic home to Ukrainian scholars. They have also organized a fundraiser for the purchase… Continue reading→
New Essay: “Medusa of War – Putin on Ukraine”
Originally published by Democracy Seminar on February 26, 2022 By Irena Grudzińska-Gross Author and professor Irena Grudzińska-Gross reflects on the speech given by Russian President Vladimir Putin announcing the beginning of the attack on Ukraine. She writes, “It was the… Continue reading→
Registration Open Soon – Decades of the Republic in Afghanistan – Free Online Seminar Spring 2022
Hosted on Zoom – Register for link March 15 – May 17, 2022 9:00am-10:30am Eastern Time Afghanistan has been at the epicenter of regional and global politics for nearly half a century. After decades of peace and stability, it experienced… Continue reading→
“FROM KABUL TO CAMPUS: AFGHAN STUDENTS RETRACE THEIR HARROWING JOURNEY TO AMERICA”
Published by News@Northeastern on February 4, 2022 By Peter Jamrug Northeastern is currently hosting Afghan refugees Lala Osmani, Mashal Aziz, Khadija Arian and Sara Sherindil, all of whom first met as finance and accounting majors at the American University in… Continue reading→
New Article: “Manufacturing the AKP in Turkey”
January 31, 2022 Published by the Middle East Research and Information Project on January 25, 2022. By: Utku Balaban, associate professor of anthropology and sociology at Amherst College. He is a MESA Global Academy Fellow for the academic years 2020–2021 and… Continue reading→
“Forced to flee Kabul last August, 15 young Afghan women find an academic home at Brown”
Published by News from Brown on January 27, 2022 By Jill Kimball Brown is hosting a cohort of students from the Asian University for Women and Ghalib University, all of whom left Afghanistan abruptly in the wake of the Taliban’s… Continue reading→
Apply for the Academy in Exile’s Artist in Residence Program: Fixing What’s Broken
Application deadline December 12, 2021 The Academy in Exile invites applications for its 2021-2022 artist in residence program. The 3-month fellowship will award three fellows the opportunity to be part of the Academy in Exile’s Critical Thinking Program at Freie Universität… Continue reading→
International Studies Association (ISA) Academic Freedom Committee Panel Discussion, Dec 2, 2021
Register Here Join the ISA Academic Freedom Committee Discussion: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Academic Freedom: Challenges and Prospects on Thursday, December 2nd at 11:00 am ET for a presentation by University in Exile Scholar, Nazan Bedirhanoglu, a Freedom Project Post-Doctoral fellow in Political… Continue reading→