LAUNCH OF THE NEW UNIVERSITY IN EXILE CONSORTIUM

The New School invites you to attend the launch of the New University in Exile Consortium.

This event will feature distinguished speakers—witnesses to the dangers of authoritarian governments and wars around the world—in conversation on the protection of scholars and other refugees. It will also feature comments by some of the endangered scholars themselves who will be hosted at New UIE Consortium institutions.

Program

Speakers include:

• Kati Marton, Hungarian-American author and journalist; award-winning former NPR and ABC News correspondent; human rights activist
• David Miliband, President and CEO, International Rescue Committee; former Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom
• (Moderator) T. Alexander Aleinikoff, University Professor, The New School; Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility
• With remarks from Michael Ignatieff, President and Rector of Central European University; Canadian writer, teacher and former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
  (*Michael Ignatieff is unable to be present at the event, but has kindly recorded a video that we will stream)
• With comments by currently hosted endangered scholars from member institutions