News and Updates
Video Available – Scholars in Exile: How Displacement Shapes an Academic Life
Originally Aired November 3, 2025 “Scholars in Exile: How Displacement Shapes an Academic Life” was a panel presentation featuring five New University in Exile Consortium Scholars. Each speaker shared their experience of working and living as a scholar in exile. …Continue reading→
The Dispositif of Exile: I filmed Salman Rushdie being stabbed and screamed: “Oh, my God!”.
AnouarRahmaniSep 08, 2025@anouarrahmaniopinion Salman Rushdie was stabbed. A man stubbed him with all the strength that could be mustered. He was hit, punched, and stabbed repeatedly and with great malice, while I filmed with my phone. I couldn’t believe what…Continue reading→
Webinar: Free Speech in the Academy
Originally Aired: October 16, 202512:00pm – 1:30pm ET Increasingly brazen attacks on academic freedom and free speech across the United States are turning US universities, which only a year ago were safe havens for threatened international scholars, into places scholars must flee…Continue reading→
Announcing the Certificate in Gender Studies
The New University in Exile Consortium is proud to offer a new Certificate in Gender Studies. Since the launch of our series of free, co-led online seminars in 2019, the Consortium has sponsored 51 seminars with over 15,300 registrants from 156 countries. In particular, seminars…Continue reading→
2024-2025 Annual Report
Now available – the New University in Exile Consortium 2024-2025 Annual Report.
Do You See Me?! Do You Hear My Voice?!
By Dr. Nael Hijjo September 2025Published by Scene 48 Roots of Exile: Family, Displacement, and Hope Writing about my personal experience as a Palestinian in exile makes me conflicted. I am a Palestinian whose family hails from ‘Askalan (al-Jura), Palestine….Continue reading→
Lamenting Identity: Arab Women and the Melancholy of Exile in Modern Literature
Fridays, Oct 10- Dec 12, 2025 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET Hosted on Zoom Register Here Course Overview Language of instruction will be Arabic. This course aims to explore the profound impact of exile and displacement on contemporary Arab…Continue reading→
Intersectionality as a Theory, Methodology, and Guide to Social Change
Thursdays, Oct 16 – Dec 18, 2025 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET Hosted on Zoom Register Here Course Overview This seminar explores intersectionality not just as a theoretical concept but also as a methodological tool and a framework for…Continue reading→
Gender-based Violence and Women’s Activism in Post Arab Revolutionary Societies
Tuesdays, Oct 7- Dec 9, 2025 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET Hosted on Zoom Register here Course Overview Despite the tumultuous events of the Arab revolts that ignited in 2010, the voices of some women continue to be obscured….Continue reading→
Bodies and Spaces of Resistance: The Untold Social History of and Lessons from Contemporary Art in Eastern Europe
Wednesdays, Oct 8- Dec 10, 2025 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET Hosted on Zoom Register Here Course Overview This free 10-week co-led seminar focuses on the social history of contemporary art in the Eastern Bloc and post-socialist Eastern Europe…Continue reading→