Scholars in the Press
Purge, Exile, and Resistance: Rethinking the Conflict of the Faculties through the Case of Academics for Peace in Turkey
By Cem Özatalay, Associate Professor in the Sociology Department, Galatasaray University Published in the European Journal of Turksish Studies, December 2020 Introduction “Like dissident journalists, writers, and artists, the persecution of dissident academics by governments has been a common issue since the beginning of modern times. Raison…Continue reading→
“On Repression & Resistance”
By Aysen Candas, published by Democracy Seminar on December 8, 2020 This piece was first presented at the “Repression and Resistance: Inside and Outside the Academy” webinar organized by the New University in Exile on November 12, 2020 (video available). The webinar was focused on…Continue reading→
Dissident human rights activist faces harassment at his home in New Jersey
An excerpt from “In Princeton Junction, a Chinese dissident faces harassment as part of a disinformation campaign by a billionaire with close ties to Steve Bannon,” by Krystal Knapp, published in Princeton Planet. Teng Biao, who has lived in Princeton Junction since 2015, is the…Continue reading→
Kaveh Madani awarded American Geophysical Union’s Ambassador Award for 2020
Kaveh Madani, the Henry Hart Rice Senior Fellow at the MacMillan Center, has been awarded the American Geophysical Union’s Ambassador Award for 2020. The award is given annually to one to five honorees in recognition of outstanding contributions to one or more of the following…Continue reading→
Drugs, Guns And Four Stories From The Northeast
September 25, 2020 Binalakshmi Nepram, published a piece in “Outlook” describing aspects of the 1980s and 1990s in Northeast India: increasing military presence and the imposition of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, the rise in armed insurgencies, the soaring narcotics trafficking and drug abuse,…Continue reading→
India and China are clashing. Northeast India is caught in the middle — again.
September 22, 2020 Binalakshmi Nepram, founder-director of the Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network and the Control Arms Foundation of India and the co-founder of the Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples, Gender Justice and Peace published an opinion piece in the Washington Post. In the article,…Continue reading→
Celebrating 100 Years of IIE Scholar Rescue Fund
The Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) published a special report to commemorate its 100th year of supporting endangered and exiled scholars around the world. This publication, titled “A Beacon of Hope,” details the milestones, achievements and voices of scholars, partners and IIE…Continue reading→
Enza García Arreaza publishes “Serie Ensayos de Climatología”
Enza García Arreaza has published “Serie Ensayos de Climatología (7)”, a series of essays on climatology. Based on this series of essays, García Arreaza also gave a powerful interview with El Nacional, a Venezuelan news source. “Los expertos sostienen que estamos lejos de comprender los…Continue reading→
See to Believe
In this, the fourth article of the series on the pandemic and the senses, Gaudêncio Fidelis discusses vision as the most established of the senses in epistemology. To a great extent, the accuracy of our ocular system has been credited to our primate ancestors and…Continue reading→
Gubad Ibadoghlu Awarded Reagan-Fascell Fellowship
Gubad Ibadoghlu, visiting scholar at the Rutgers Center for European Studies, has been awarded a Reagan-Fascell Fellowship. Gubad is a world-renowned political economist from Azerbaijan. He is a senior policy analyst for social and economic studies at Azerbaijan’s Economic Research Center, a Baku-based NGO that…Continue reading→