News and Updates
How Security Council Politics Trample Women’s Rights
By: Hasina Jalal Published by: The National InterestOctober 21, 2025 The situation facing Afghan women and girls is a test of our shared commitment to human rights, justice, and equality. While world leaders gathered in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)…Continue reading→
“The Taliban Courts in Afghanistan” with Adam Baczko & Homeira Qaderi
October 8, 2025 Book talk on “The Taliban Courts in Afghanistan” with author Dr. Adam Baczko & Dr. Homeira Qaderi. Date and time Wednesday, October 8 · 3:30 – 4:45pm EDT Location NAC Flex 1/103160 Convent Ave New York, NY…Continue reading→
INHALE/EXHALE: A New Installation by Margarita Kuleva
Wednesday, October 8, 2025・5:00 PM — Panel discussion between Margarita Kuleva and immigration lawyers・6:00 PM — Opening Reception On view: Oct 8 (from 4 PM), Oct 9–10 (10 AM–6 PM) Location: Residency Unlimited360 Court Street (main green church doors), Brooklyn NY 11231…Continue reading→
In Memoriam: Jerome A. Cohen (1930-2025)
Our friend and colleague, Jerome Cohen, passed away on Wednesday, September 22nd, 2025. Professor Cohen was an esteemed scholar of East Asian Law who introduced East Asian legal systems into American legal education and shaped generations of lawyers and scholars. His…Continue reading→
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 60 seminars with over 16,914 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.