Monday, 31 May 2021, 3 pm In late March this year, the Chinese government announced two sets of counter-sanctions against several European academics and research institutions in retaliation for the coordinated sanctions from the EU, the UK, Canada and the US against four Chinese officials and one entity in Xinjiang. Three of the speakers, Dr.Continue reading SAR Webinar: When Silence Is Not Golden: The Costs of China’s Sanctions of European Researchers” →
Online conference organised by Scholars at Risk – Ireland and ALLEA EVENT DATE 8 June 2021 14:00 – 19:00 (Dublin time) Online Zoom Webinar Free and open to all. Registration is required. This conference will focus on the importance of intellectual dissent and academic freedom to democratic societies in a Western, particularly European, context. The speakers andContinue reading SAR Conference: ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND INTELLECTUAL DISSENT →
SAR-Ireland in conjunction with Prof. Alex Dukalskis (UCD) and Dr. Julia C. Schneider (UCC) would like to invite you to the following online webinar “When Silence Is Not Golden: The Costs of China’s Sanctions of European Researchers” Speakers: Dr. Björn Jerdén (Swedish National China Centre), Dr. Mareike Ohlberg (The German Marshall Fund of the United States), Dr. Joanne Smith Finley (Newcastle University)Continue reading SAR Webinar – When Silence Is Not Golden: The Costs of China’s Sanctions of European Researchers →
Jewher Ilham: “The Path to Survival, The Uyghur Struggle” spoke at the SAR webinar on Thursday 29 April at 3.00pm. Listen to Jewher’s fascinating story HERE Jewher Ilham is an author and a Uyghur advocate fighting for her detained father, the prominent Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti, and more broadly on the academic freedom situation in China.
Scholars at Risk (Ireland), Dr. Julia C. Schneider (UCC), and Dr. Gert Hoffmann (UCC) would like to invite you to the following online lecture: Jewher Ilham: “The Path to Survival, The Uyghur Struggle” Thursday 29 April, 3:00 pm (WET) [4:00 CET] Jewher Ilham is an author and a Uyghur advocate fighting for her detained father, the prominent Uyghur academicContinue reading The Path to Survival, The Uyghur Struggle – SAR Webinar →
SAR Ireland in collaboration with Centre for Resistance Studies, Trinity College Dublin and the Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway held a very successful webinar on 8 March 2021 – Gender and Academic Freedom. The Seminar speakers were: Andrea Pető Elżbieta Korolczuk Seda Altuğ Please see the full webinar at the following LINK
Queen’s University Belfast and the UCL Centre on US Politics, with support from the US Department of State, as part of the series DECISION 2020: Interpreting the US Elections are delighted to invite you to a Panel Discussion: ‘The US Election and Foreign Policy: Implications for Northern Ireland, the UK, Ireland, and the EU’ will takeContinue reading The US Election and Foreign Policy: Implications for Northern Ireland, the UK, Ireland, and the EU →
Friday 11 December 2020, 2.00pm As part of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Festival and to mark the launch of the Scholars at Risk Annual Report Free to Think 2020 we are delighted to welcome Scholar at Risk Serdar M. Değirmencioğlu. Serdar M. Değirmencioğlu was a professor of psychology in Istanbul, Turkey. He is aContinue reading Free to Think: Launch of the Scholars at Risk Annual Report 2020 →
6 November 2020 12.15pm – 2.15pm In recent months, many governments have used the COVID-19 lockdown as the pretext for a crackdown on intellectual dissent and academic freedom. This network-wide webinar, sponsored by Scholars at Risk Ireland, will explore these renewed attacks in several different contexts, including Turkey, China, India and elsewhere, drawing on individualContinue reading SAR Webinar – The Hidden Threat of Covid-19 →
On 7 November 2020, Universities Ireland hosted the ninth annual Decade of Centenaries conference and its first online iteration of the series. This year’s conference explored the themes of state formation, political violence, and civil disobedience with a focus on the year 1920. State formation 1920 witnessed important legislative developments which shaped the formation ofContinue reading State formation, political violence, and civil resistance, Ireland north and south, 1919-22 →