News and Updates
NPR Features Artist to be hosted by The New School’s College of Performing Arts and Mannes School of Music
“Thousands of Afghan artists are still trying to flee the Taliban” NPR’s All Things Considered highlights the powerful story of Ahmad Fanoos, a renowned Afghan musician supported through AFI’s Afghan Artists Protection Project (AAPP) in partnership with the New University in Exile…Continue reading→
Why Burmese Generals Should Worry New Delhi
By Binalakshmi Nepram; Published July 16, 2022 via TOI On July 25 the world woke up to the tragic news of four pro-democracy activists being executed in Myanmar. The victims included Phyo Zeya Thaw who was a former National League for Democracy (NLD)…Continue reading→
Remembering Richard J. Bernstein
By Seyla Benhabib Published in the Boston Review July 11, 2022 Returning from a two-week trip to Frankfurt on July 4, I found myself thinking about the opening session of a conference in honor of Richard J. Bernstein’s ninetieth birthday…Continue reading→
Remembering Richard J. Bernstein, Vera List Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research
1932 – 2022 The following remembrances of Dick were sent to us by scholar-members of the New University in Exile Consortium, who came to know Dick as the first leader of our weekly scholar seminar, and as a cherished friend…Continue reading→
New Blog Post: “Metropolis and Migration: What Immigration Reception in New York and Tehran Tell Us About Democracy and Authoritarianism”
By Kian Tajbakhsh, Senior Advisor to the Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development at Columbia University and Fellow with Columbia’s Committee on Global Thought Published on Tales of My Two Cities on June 30, 2022 Scholar Kian Tajbakhsh argues…Continue reading→
Article: Ukraine’s ‘sanctioning frenzy’ will bring no HE benefits
By Ararat Osipian Published: June 20, 2022 in University World News The United States and the European Union have sanctioned Russian oligarchs and politicians in response to Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine. Academic ties with some Russian universities have been…Continue reading→
Book: Creating Local Democracy in Iran: State Building and the Politics of Decentralization
By: Kian Tajbakhsh Publisher: Cambridge University Press (July 2022) DESCRIPTION Empirically rich and theoretically informed, this book is an innovative analysis of political decentralization under the Islamic Republic of Iran. Drawing upon Kian Tajbakhsh’s twenty years of experience working with…Continue reading→
2021-2022 Annual Report
This year, in collaboration with our 52 member universities and colleges, we worked to support more than 70 endangered exiled scholars from 20 countries. We welcomed the scholars into an active and thriving intellectual community in an effort to lessen…Continue reading→
