NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
The Scholar Lecture Series provides Consortium Scholars with opportunities to present their research or personal story to new audiences (in person or online). Invitations to speak at conferences or departmental events will provide the Scholars with academic exposure, help them build relationships with their colleagues outside their host-university or college, and may help to lessen their sense of isolation. Inviting a Consortium Scholar to speak is also an important way to call attention to increasingly egregious attacks on academic freedom, and to introduce a new and valuable perspective to your colleagues and students.
How you can help: We would like to encourage you to consider whether any of the Scholars listed below might be a good fit for any conference, webinar, panel, or other event occurring on your campus this semester. The Consortium has funding to cover a modest stipend for the scholar. For more information, or to be in contact with our Scholars, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at uieconsortium@newschool.edu
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Academic Freedom
Ahmad Barakat
“Research Under Constraint: Academic Freedom, Exile, and Returning to Syria”
Country of Origin: Syria Location: UK
Abstract, CV, and more information, linked here.
Naima Mohammadi
“Navigating Inclusion and Academic Freedom: Perspectives from Italy and the U.S.”
Country of Origin: Iran Location: US
Abstract, CV, and more information, linked here.
Nasim Sohail
“Academic Freedom – How Do We Know When We Are No Longer Free?”
Country of Origin: Afghanistan Location: US
Abstract, CV, and more information, linked here.
Art, Music, and Censorship
Waheedullah Sagar
“Silencing a Nation’s Music: The Destruction of Afghanistan’s Musical Revival after August 2021”
Country of Origin: Afghanistan Location: Germany
Abstract, CV, and more information, linked here.
Conflict, Resilience, and Governance
Mansour Ali Mohammad Al-Maswari
“The Risk of Renewed Escalation Between the Yemen’s Houthis and Saudi Arabia”
Country of Origin: Yemen Location: Canada
Abstract, CV, and more information, linked here.
Gebremedhin Haile
“Societal Resiliencies in Tigray, Ethiopia”
Country of Origin: Ethiopia Location: US
Abstract, CV, and more information, linked here.
Abdul Momin Mansoor
“Resilience as a Framework for the 21st Century: Governance, Energy, and Public Policy”
Country of Origin: Afghanistan Location: US
Abstract, CV, and more information, linked here.
Omar Sadr
“The Politics of Poor’s Resistance Against the Taliban Totalitarian Regime”
“Pluralism Against Orthodoxy: Religious Resistance to the Taliban Religious Totalitarianism”
Country of Origin: Afghanistan Location: Sweden
Abstract, CV, and more information, linked here.
Environmental Science and Climate
Gebremedhin Haile
“Hydroclimate Extremes in the Anthropocene”
Country of Origin: Ethiopia Location: US
Abstract, CV, and more information, linked here.
Gender Studies
Naima Mohammadi
“The Duty of International Feminism in Times of Gender Crisis:Lessons from Afghanistan and Iran.”
Country of Origin: Iran Location: US
Abstract, CV, and more information, linked here.
Omar Sadr
“Cultural Relativism and the Fallacy of the Taliban Totalitarian Regime’s Gender Apartheid”
Country of Origin: Afghanistan Location: Sweden
Abstract, CV, and more information, linked here.
History, Memory, and Propaganda
Raika Khorshidian
“Heritage for Resistance vs. Heritage for Propaganda in AI-Truth Era in Iran”
Country of Origin: Iran Location: Germany
Abstract, CV, and more information, linked here.
Yurii Latysh
“De-Ukrainization: Russian approaches to politics of memory in the occupied Ukrainian territories”
Country of Origin: Belarus Location: Brazil
Abstract, CV, and more information, linked here.
Ilya Solomeshch
“The Past as a Tool, Hostage, Pawn, and Concubine of State Propaganda. How do Russian Politics Mobilize History to Explain the Present and Create the Image of the Future?”
Country of Origin: Russia Formerly hosted by the European Humanities University.
Abstract, CV, and more information, linked here.
Daria Vystavkina
“Autoethnography in Times of Censorship”
Country of Origin: Ukraine Location: Germany
Abstract, CV, and more information, linked here.
Law and Legal Studies
Masoud Noori
“From Rule of Law to Rule by Law: How Law Becomes an Instrument of Power”
“Clinical Legal Education Across Borders: Comparative Lessons on Teaching Law and Expanding Access to Justice”
“Academic Freedom Across Traditions: Toward a More Inclusive Understanding”
Country of Origin: Iran Independent Scholar
Abstract, CV, and more information, linked here.
Literature and Creative Writing
Abdulqawi Hazaea
“From Silence to Defiance: Yemeni Women’s Resilience, Resistance, and Peacebuilding in a Decade of War”
Country of Origin: Yemen Formerly hosted by Columbia Global Center, Amman.
Abstract, CV, and more information, linked here.
Homeira Qaderi
“Writing as Resistance: Women’s Fiction and the Struggle for Voice in Contemporary Afghanistan”
Country of Origin: Afghanistan Location: US
Abstract, CV, and more information, linked here.
Anouar Rahmani
“The Salman Rushdie Attack: When a Literary Threat Becomes a Physical Scene”
“Witnessing the Attack on Salman Rushdie: When a Threat Against a Writer Became Reality”
“The Banned Book: What Happens to a Writer When a Book Becomes a Crime?”
Country of Origin: Algeria Formerly hosted by City of Asylum.
Abstract, CV, and more information, linked here.
Migration and Displacement
Mawahib Hassan
“The Importance of Social Networks in the Survival and Adaptation of Displaced Sudanese in Turkey”
Country of Origin: Sudan Formerly hosted by Columbia Global Center, Amman.
Abstract, CV, and more information, linked here.
Muhammed Muharram
“Water as Archive: Re-imagining Exile, Memory, and Identity through the Blue Humanities from Yemen to the World”
Country of Origin: Yemen Location: Germany
Abstract, CV, and more information, linked here.
Political Science
Bengi Gumrukcu
“Opposition Parties Abroad: Divergent Tactics of Parties in the Diaspora”
Country of Origin: Turkey Location: US
Abstract, CV, and more information, linked here.
Juan Carlos Rosillo-Villena
“Political Discourse, Democracy and Institutional Change in Latin America: Insights from the Progressive Experience”
“How Hugo Chávez Reimagined Democracy: Political Discourse, Institutions and Equality”
Country of Origin: Venezuela Formerly hosted by Columbia Global Center, Santiago.
Abstract, CV, and more information, linked here.
Technology and Communication
Andrii Kostyriev
“Social Media Age: The Rise or Decay of Democracy”
Country of Origin: Ukraine Location: Lithuania
Abstract, CV, and more information, linked here.
Svitlana Tarasenko
“Artificial Intelligence and Cloud-Based Universities.”
Country of Origin: Ukraine Independent Scholar
Abstract, CV, and more information, linked here.