Scholars at Risk invites you to register for the 2024 Global Congress to be held June 25-27, 2024, in partnership with the European Humanities University (EHU) in Vilnius, Lithuania. Global Congresses are SAR’s largest network events, and bring together leading scholars, advocates, students and professionals to rethink issues of academic freedom and related values, to learn from each other, and to help shape SAR’s agenda for the coming years.
The 2024 Global Congress theme, “Sustainable knowledge: Lessons from universities, scholars and students in exile,” seeks to explore and capture the experience of current and prior generations of academic communities forced into exile by political unrest, repression, disaster and conflict. From Afghanistan to Ukraine, Belarus to Myanmar, Turkey to Sudan, Nicaragua to Israel/Palestine, and beyond. How can we help more scholars and students reach safety and re-establish their academic roles most effectively? How can we help institutions and systems persevere and ultimately build better, stronger, freer higher education communities, whether in exile or upon return home?
Preliminary program:
A detailed program will be provided in early 2024.
- Pre-congress workshops (June 25-26) On June 25-26, EHU will host SAR members, partners, and SAR-assisted scholars participating in pre-Congress workshops and trainings on hosting at-risk scholars, academic freedom advocacy, promoting higher education values, and regional academic freedom policy-making, among other themes. Side meetings will be organized for SAR sections and partner projects and consortium partners.
- SAR Global Congress (June 26-27) On June 26-27, SAR and EHU will co-host the Global Congress at the historic Vilnius Town Hall, including keynotes, plenaries, and breakouts, in addition to networking and the 2024 Courage to Think Award dinner. [see https://www.trueheroesfilms.org/thedigest/awards/165B4CC5-0BC2-4A77-B3B4-E26937BA553C]
see also: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/12/human-rights-vision-and-reality/
Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards 