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Summary Report on Activities 2018–2019 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE: FORWARD TOGETHER

500 institutions in 39 countries, organized into national SAR sections and “partner networks” with leading associations, making SAR services accessible to scholars and students around the world. Over our first twenty years, this community has helped over 1500 scholars and created over 1200 positions at 300 host campuses, representing over US $20 million of support for individuals. TWENTY YEARS AGO, inspired by the courage of threatened colleagues We will always prioritize assistance for around the world, we said “there ought individuals. But with the level of threats to be a way to help.” Our network was we see today—SAR’s caseload is over born from that spirit, and that spirit 700 scholars—case-by-case action is has motivated our work ever since. not enough. So over the last decade Contents Scholars at Risk (SAR) is a practical, the SAR community has developed a collective way to meet the urgent needs range of activities to do even more. of scholars, students and These include SAR’s annual Free to Think Executive Director’s Message 1 under threat. report (which this year has documented over 324 attacks on higher education The Network 2 in 56 countries), student advocacy, “Scholars at Risk is a legal clinics, regional advocacy, courses, Protection 4 practical, collective way scholar trainings, and workshops, all aimed at Advocacy 9 to meet the urgent needs building understanding, demanding of scholars, students and accountability, and increasing security. Research & Learning 11 universities under threat.” As we mark our first twenty years 2020 Global Congress 12 In our first ten years, we developed together, with gratitude to all who have helped, we also look forward: Launch of SAR Europe 13 core activities providing assistance to individuals targeted for their ideas. to welcoming more institutions to Supporters 14 These include arranging teaching and our network; to new partners and research positions for those unable to new supporters who make our work Financials 15 work safely in their home countries, and possible; to doing even more; to helping campaigns for those unable to travel more scholars. People 16 due to prosecution or imprisonment. Looking forward together, Over this period SAR pioneered a new Looking Forward 17 solidarity among higher education institutions around the world, building Give Today BACK ROBERT QUINN what has become a network of over EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

1 The Network

Scholars at Risk (SAR) is an international network of institutions and individuals whose collective mission is to protect scholars and promote academic freedom.

The environment in which SAR fulfills now over 500 universities, colleges its mission is increasingly difficult, and associations in 39 countries. placing growing demands on our These are organized into 13 national services. Authoritarian regimes sections with several more forming. on the rise are actively working to The sections are joined by 12 partner restrict academic freedom, while an networks­—partnerships with leading unprecedented refugee crisis has higher education networks that help record numbers of scholars seeking extend the reach of SAR activities help. The higher education community to every region of the world. All this Above: Convening scholars and section members for the launch of SAR-Denmark. is responding. Our global network is means more opportunities to help scholars, raise awareness, The voice of the network membership channel for all involved. This allows and demand greater is SAR’s International Advisory for greater coordination of activities protection for universities, Committee (IAC), comprised of across regions, more sharing of best scholars, students, and representatives of SAR sections and practices leading to improved support academic freedom. partner networks. The IAC embeds for scholars, and more opportunities to an international perspective into advance academic freedom worldwide. SAR’s structure and governance and provides a forum and communication

Growing Our Network Professor Adam Braver, IAC SAR SECTIONS & PARTNER NETWORKS representative and SAR-United States section Chair, leads a discussion on academic freedom Academy for Research and Higher Education • Mexican Association at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in Spain. for International Education (AMPEI) • Cara-SAR UK Universities Network • Communauté Université Grenoble Alpes • Compostela Group of Universities • Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration (CONAHEC) • European Students Union (ESU) “When thinking about what it takes to make a more just world, it is always worth pausing to consider the hundreds of scholars worldwide • European Universities Association (EUA) • International Migration, who face daily risks on our behalf to think, debate, share, and challenge Integration and Social Cohesion (IMISCOE) • Magna Charta Observatory ideas. They are not the cautionary tale, they are all of us.” • SAR Canada • SAR Denmark • SAR Finland • SAR •

– ADAM BRAVER SAR Ireland • SAR Italy • SAR Norway • SAR Slovakia • SAR

Steering Committee Chair, SAR-United States National Section & Faculty Coordinator, Sweden • SAR Switzerland • SAR United States • Swiss Academies SAR Student Advocacy Seminars of Arts and Sciences • Swissuniversitie • UAF-SAR Netherlands and Belgium • Network of Universities from the Capitals of Europe (UNICA)

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SAR’s core protection work provides direct assistance to freedom by assisting scholars who are hosts, including four trainings this year directly affected. Together, we helped a for 177 participants. The trainings share threatened scholars, including by arranging temporary record 409 scholars this year, including best practices for hosts and prepare research and teaching positions at SAR member arranging 115 positions. These scholars to graduate from SAR support institutions and a range of other services. positions represent over $4.6 million by identifying next opportunities, in contributed by host campuses and exile or upon return. partners that directly supports at-risk Emergency Assistance Grants Scholars Seeking Assistance from across the Middle East and scholars and their families. SAR also provides gap-filling emergency Due to spreading conflicts and North Africa, Latin America, sub- assistance grants. This year SAR pressures on academics and Saharan Africa, and South Asia. Trainings & Other Services provided 33 emergency grants to universities around the world, SAR SAR currently handles a caseload of Beyond arranging positions, SAR scholars for in-country needs; travel has continued to receive an elevated over 700 scholars seeking assistance. provides scholars with advice, legal for interviews, conferences, or to take number of requests in recent years; referrals, career advisement, and other Universities & Colleges Respond up new positions; visa fees; legal costs; this year receiving 581 new services, and has provided these to or family support for those detained or applications, with the majority from The global SAR Network is responding 383 scholars this year. SAR staff lead facing charges. Turkey and Syria and large numbers to these pressures on academic training workshops for scholars and

TOP 5 HOST COUNTRIES HOW SAR HELPS Germany Netherlands TOP 5 ORIGIN USA COUNTRIES 73 $4.6 M Norway The chart at right shows Turkey 115 host direct Canada the journey of a scholar Syria scholar universities support Yemen seeking help. SAR typically placements OPTION 1 Iran 6 177 works with scholars for 3–5 Brazil Scholar Hosting trainings participants Safe Return years before “graduation” SAR refers appropriate from SAR’s direct assistance. candidates to network All numbers reflect 2018-19 levels members for possible temporary positions. 96 OPTION 1 Scholars Apply for scholar graduations TOP 5 RISKS TO Assistance Transition OPTION 2 SCHOLARS Scholars apply or are 33 SAR works with referred to SAR for assistance; emergency scholars and hosts in ARREST / IMPRISONMENT SAR evaluates their situation grants planning and navigating for one (or both) of transitions, including INSECURITY / two options. one of two options. CONFLICT Advice & Other OPTION 2 WRONGFUL Assistance DISMISSAL 581 98 22 New scholar 383 SAR provides advice or universities countries HARASSMENT / applications Opportunities THREATS scholars assistance with relocation, assisted integration and adjustment, KILLING / DISAPPEARANCE job skills or other services.

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SCHOLARS HOSTED

“Thank you very much, you During the 2018–2019 academic year, host campuses and other partners created helped me to breathe and positions for the scholars listed below by their discipline and country. The list work with a clean mind. The includes scholars whose positions commenced that year, positions arranged that things that you are doing, will be taken up shortly, as well as those offered positions which have not yet saving innocent people commenced due to arrest, travel restrictions, visa denials, or other external factors. around the world, is priceless. It is so valuable, so important.” Arts & Humanities (23) Law (Burundi) Cultural Anthropology (Turkey) Archaeology (Iran) Law & Human Rights (China) Cultural Anthropology (Turkey) –A scholar of chemistry education Archaeology (Syria) Law & Human Rights (Iran) Development Economics (Turkey) from Turkey at a SAR member Archaeology & Anthropology (Iraq) Law & Human Rights (Rwanda) Development Studies & Food in Norway Architecture (Turkey) Law & Human Rights (Zimbabwe) Security (Ethiopia) Comparative History (Turkey) Public Law (Turkey) Education (Turkey) Comparative Literature (Turkey) Public Law (Turkey) Educational (Iran) Comparative Literature & Mathematics & Ethnology (Turkey) Cultural Studies (Turkey) Information Sciences (2) Gender and Development Cultural Studies & Studies (Bangladesh) Humanities (Turkey) Mathematics & Higher Education (Eritrea) Geography & Urban Planning (Iran) English Literature (Jordan) Mathematics Education (Turkey) Governance & Civil Society (Pakistan) (Turkey) Government & International History (Syria) Medicine & Public Health (3) Relations (Bangladesh) “I have no words to express my History (Tajikistan) Medical Nursing (Turkey) Human Geography (China) History (Turkey) gratitude and admiration for the Psychiatry (Turkey) Human Geography (Syria) History & Islamic Studies (Tajikistan) Public Health Nursing (Turkey) International & Comparative support I got from SAR for the Linguistics & Semitic Languages (Syria) Education (Yemen) Modern Turkish Literature (Turkey) Physical & Life Sciences (21) last several years. SAR helped International Relations (Turkey) Near Eastern Studies (Turkey) Agricultural Engineering (Syria) International Relations me to build my career and get Philosophy (Cameroon) Biochemistry & Food (Turkey) Philosophy (Iraq) Sciences (Yemen) Peace and Conflict Studies(D.R. Congo) tremendous opportunities to Philosophy (Turkey) Biological Sciences (Syria) Political History (Turkey) get experience but also your Philosophy (Turkey) Chemistry (Syria) Political Science (Azerbaijan) Philosophy (Turkey) Civil Engineering (Syria) Political Science (Iran) support has protected me from Uyghur Language & Literature (China) Civil Engineering (Syria) Political Science (Turkey) persecution and torture in Environmental Engineering (Iraq) Political Science & International Business & Finance (8) Environmental Sciences (Burundi) Relations (Turkey) Ethiopia. Through SAR support, Economics (Syria) Environmental Sciences (Iran) Political Science & Public I have been able to contribute Economics (Turkey) Forest Ecology & Silviculture (Iran) Administration (Turkey) Economics (Turkey) Health Services Psychology (Turkey) Research bringing political transformation Economics (Turkey) (Saudi Arabia) Psychology (Turkey) Economics Mechanical Engineering (Syria) in Ethiopia. We are witnessing (Turkey) Psychology (Turkey) Finance & Accounting (Rwanda) Mechanical Engineering (Syria) Public Administration (Turkey) Human Resource Physics (Algeria) significant changes in Ethiopia. Social Anthropology (Turkey) Management (Syria) Physics (Turkey) Sociology (Bangladesh) Thank you for all the support! Management (Nicaragua) Plant Pathology (Cameroon) I am deeply interested to Polymer Science & Sociology (Cameroon) Journalism & Writing (5) Technology (Turkey) Sociology (Iran) contribute my share and pay back Creative Writing (Nigeria) Psychology & Education Sociology (Turkey) for the support I have received Journalism & Law (Maldives) Sciences (Turkey) Sociology (Turkey) Mass Communication & Rural Engineering (Syria) Sociology (Turkey) Journalism (Bangladesh) from SAR. Thank you for your Science Education (Turkey) Sociology (Turkey) Media & Communication Structural Engineering & Sociology (Turkey) personal follow up and advising Studies (Turkey) Architecture (Turkey) Political Satire & Journalism (Iran) Sociology (Ukraine) me during the last few years.” Social Sciences (40) Sociology & Gender Studies (Iran) Law & Human Rights –A scholar of law and human rights from (9) Anthropology & African Ethiopia in the United States Human Rights (Iran) Literature (D.R. Congo) International Human Communications & Political Rights Law (Uganda) Science (Yemen)

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HOSTS SAR’s advocacy work aims to increase protection for

SAR is grateful to the universities listed below that created positions for scholars vulnerable individuals by documenting the problem of during the 2018-2019 academic year. The list includes positions commenced that attacks on higher education and seeking accountability of year, positions arranged that will be taken up shortly, as well as positions offered perpetrators in order to deter future attacks. which have not yet been commenced due to arrest, travel restrictions, visa denials, or other external factors. Free to Think 2019, the annual This year, SAR released Obstacles to report of SAR’s Academic Freedom Excellence: China’s Quest for World- Åbo Akademi University Technische Universität Dresden School of Economics Université du Québec à Montréal Monitoring Project, documents 324 Class Universities, which provides Erasmus University Medical (UQAM) attacks on university communities in a survey of major issues impacting Center (Erasmus MC) Université Libre de Bruxelles Erasmus University Rotterdam University of Agder 56 countries (up from 294 attacks in academic freedom in China and where (International Institute of Social University of Amsterdam 2018). Dozens of volunteer monitors China has extraterritorial academic Studies) throughout SAR’s global network connections. The report calls on European University of Viadrina University of Fordham University University of British Columbia contribute by submitting and verifying the international higher education Forum Transregionale Studien University of California, Riverside incident reports and by supporting community, government leaders, and Freie Universität Berlin University of California, San Diego Georgetown University related advocacy. Since 2011, SAR has civil society in China and around the Goethe University Frankfurt University of Connecticut documented 1,023 incidents involving world to take actions that protect Hanken School of Economics 1,455 attacks on higher education in academic freedom while supporting Harvard University University of Duisburg-Essen HES-SO 101 countries. quality higher education in China. Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA) University of Geneva Humboldt University of Berlin University of Gothenburg Hunter College, CUNY University of Göttingen Documenting a Global Problem Julius Kühn-Institut University of Guelph Free to Think 2019 highlights violent attacks Justus Liebig University Giessen University of on higher education communities, wrongful Karlsruhe Institute of Technology prosecutions of scholars, pressures on student Kristiania University College expression, and restrictions on travel, among Leiden University other global pressures. The report notes in University University of Oslo particular tensions in Brazil, China, India, Linnaeus University University of Ottawa Sudan, and Turkey; and recommends actions to Ludwig Maximilian University of University of Portsmouth increase protections for academic freedom. Munich McGill University Download Report Mid Sweden University Uppsala University bit.ly/33xosOG National University of Ireland, Galway Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Netherlands Institute for Vrije Universiteit Brussel Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences Wageningen University Western Norway University of Applied Sciences Addressing Academic Freedom in China Nord University Western University Norwegian University of Science & Obstacles to Excellence: China’s Quest Technology, NTNU Trondheim Xavier University for World-Class Universities, released in Oslo Metropolitan University both English and Chinese, maps threats Radboud University Nijmegen to academic freedom that jeopardize China’s higher education ambitions. San Diego State University Simon Fraser University Download Report Södertörn University bit.ly/2Q39LiC

8 9 Advocacy Research & Learning

SAR-affiliated legal clinics increase develop research and leadership SAR’s research and learning work aims to increase monitoring coverage while training skills while advocating on behalf of students on academic freedom and imprisoned scholars and students security for scholars and universities by increasing human rights. Students produce reports identified by SAR’sScholars in Prison understanding of academic freedom and related higher on specific incidents involving attacks Project. This year, students in 14 education values among states, higher education on higher education and analyze seminars helped SAR campaign for country conditions relating to academic 50 imprisoned scholars and students. communities, and the public. freedom. This year, students in 8 SAR clinics helped prepare academic Seminar participants put their This year SAR continued to disseminate freedom reports on Ethiopia, Colombia, advocacy skills into practice at SAR’s and promote its publications. “This was the model of an and Côte d’Ivoire for submission to annual Student Advocacy Day in Promoting Higher Education Values: effective, well-designed online national and international human Washington, D.C. This year, 40 students A Guide for Discussion explores the course. The mixture of learning rights bodies. Together with partners and faculty from 8 colleges and meaning of academic freedom, why it activities and assessments was across the Americas, SAR launched universities exchanged best practices matters, and how to respond when it is engaging and effective, as was the Americas Academic Freedom in advocating for imprisoned scholars, threatened. Promoting Higher Education the array of resources in various Hub in February 2019, a regional discussed advocacy strategies with Values: Workshop Supplement offers formats. In my academic life, I do collaboration on advocacy in support guest experts, and held 50 meetings exercises and advice for self-study by a lot of work on effective course of issues relating to academic freedom with elected officials. individuals or for group discussion in design and accessible pedagogy, in the Americas. workshops or classes. and this course was a wonderful Building on these publications, SAR exemplar of both. It was great to Students participating in Student and partners co-created an online be able to choose among delivery Advocacy Seminars play an “Prior to taking the seminar course on academic freedom called formats (video or transcript for increasingly important role in SAR’s last semester, I wasn’t aware Dangerous Questions: Why Academic lectures, for instance), and the advocacy work. Seminar students at all of the power students Freedom Matters, the course features variety of interesting content had. After taking the seminar, I interactive video lectures, animations, and activities kept me engaged understood the power we wield quizzes, polls, and exercises to make the and challenged.” Student Advocacy Day as students and how we could Students at SAR’s Student Advocacy Day material accessible and to encourage – ONLINE COURSE PARTICIPANT use it, but I never thought it gather for meetings on Capitol Hill. discussion. The course has now would open such doors.” engaged more than 2,300 participants – IZZIDINE EL-MUFTI from 120+ countries, reflecting the Carleton University student discussing his participation in the seminars and international demand for information Student Advocacy Day about academic freedom.

Online Course on Academic Freedom An animation from Dangerous Questions, an online course on academic freedom, produced as part of an Erasmus+ project by SAR, the University of Oslo, UNICA, , EUA, EAIE, Al-Fanar Media, and University World News.

10 11 2020 Global Congress Launch of SAR Europe

SAR’s biennial Global Congress brings together leading The establishment of SAR Europe represents the scholars, advocates, students, and professionals to rethink culmination of nearly two decades of partnership between issues of academic freedom and related values, to learn European higher education institutions and the global from each other, and to help shape SAR’s agenda for the SAR Network. coming years. SAR launched its European office— The 2020 Global Congress will be based contributions to public discourse SAR Europe—in November 2018 in convened March 25-28 in partnership and policy, and meaningful engagement partnership with Maynooth University, with Johns Hopkins University and with the broadest public good. How Ireland. The establishment of SAR the American Association for the scholars, students, leaders, and the Europe formalized nearly twenty Advancement of Science (AAAS). The public understand these roles goes years of partnership between European higher education institutions 2020 Global Congress theme, Truth, to the heart of increasing pressures and SAR in protecting scholars Power & Society: The Promise of Higher on higher education around the and promoting academic freedom. Education in Challenging Times reflects world—from outside infringements three core roles of higher education: on autonomy to violent protests to SAR Europe’s mandate is to grow, research and teaching leading to new wrongful prosecutions, imprisonment support, and coordinate the activities insights and understanding, evidence- and more. The event will include of national SAR sections and partners workshops on protection, advocacy, across Europe, and to strengthen our collective voice in Europe for the and higher education values, followed SAR Europe at Maynooth University by keynotes, plenaries, parallel sessions, greater protection of scholars and L to R: Robert Quinn, SAR; Sinead O’Gorman, and networking aimed at promoting for increased respect for academic SAR Europe; Linda Connolly, MUSSI; Philip Nolan, President, Maynooth University. SAR-related and academic freedom- freedom worldwide. related activities. The launch was held at the European Maynooth University and SAR have Parliament in Brussels on November partnered since 2008, when Maynooth 28, 2018 in association with a became an active member of the global roundtable discussion on academic SAR network, hosting at-risk scholars, “Censorship as a form of freedom. The event was hosted by organizing events, and contributing to power shows its weakness: Wajid Khan, Member of the European SAR’s Academic Freedom Monitoring it indirectly admits the deep Parliament, and featured remarks Project. Together with eight other fear that censoring authorities by Member of European Parliament, universities in Ireland and Northern have of the power of speech, of Claude Moraes ; Vice-President Ireland, Maynooth University was a critique, of open-ended inquiry.” of the European Parliament, founding member of the SAR Ireland –PROF. JUDITH BUTLER Mairead McGuinness; Robert Quinn, Section in 2009. SAR Europe is now Join us! Register for the Maxine Elliot Professor in the SAR’s Executive Director; Sinead established as a center embedded 2020 Global Congress Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at O’Gorman, Director of SAR Europe within the Maynooth University Social Find registration and program University of California, Berkeley, 2018 and Professor Mark Maguire, Dean Sciences Institute (MUSSI). information at the 2020 Global SAR Global Congress keynote remarks Congress website: scholarsatrisk.org/ of the Faculty of Social Sciences at event/2020globalcongress Maynooth University.

12 13 Supporters

SAR is grateful for the generosity of our supporters with special Susan Einbinder Karen Lange Sadhna Singh Carl Ernst Joel Lebowitz Irina Soboleva thanks to the Office of the Provost and New York University for Mesut Erzurumluoglu Felice Levine Gregory Starrett hosting our network headquarters and the National University Ellen Fleischmann Jed Levine Stephen Steadman Juan Gallardo Stephen Marks Winifred Tan of Ireland, Maynooth for hosting SAR Europe. We are especially Gwenn Gebhard Joseph Martin Nayereh Tohidi Alvia Golden & Carroll Kate Medina Jenny Tolan grateful for the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme. We give Smith-Rosenberg Peter Merrill Gary Tomlinson thanks to the many colleagues and partners around the world who Robert Gosende Alison Mountz James Walker Elizabeth Grossman Letitia Naigles Jessica White have gone out of their way to help threatened and refugee scholars, Malachi Hacohen Jan Nespor Sarah Willcox especially those who have helped arrange visits, host events, mentor Paul Harris Joyce Pisarello Annabelle Wilmott Henry Heaphy James Rauch Alexander Wood scholars, or who have otherwise provided assistance or advice. Carla Houben Henry Reese Pamela Wooster Perry MacLeod Jensen Clare Farne Robinson Gerben Zaagsma Teresa Jopson-Gloeckl Tim Rowse Leah Zani Dona Lee Kelly LEADERS ADVOCATES Scott Harding Nate Schenkkan *matching gift $25,000+ $1,000+ Alice H. Henkin Katherine King Joan Scott List from Sept. 2018–Sept. 2019 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fred Block Thomas Keenan Karen-Lise S. Knudsen Scott Sehon Charina Endowment Fund Gregg & Chris Buckbinder Tondra Carlson Lynford Gary Krenz Marc Silver Charles Koch Foundation Jonathan Dwight Culler & Jeff Lynford Demoret Stiftung Irving Epstein Lenore Martin Erasmus + Alison T. Gray Anne McCall Falconwood Foundation Hanna H. Gray Yiting Nan Jan Krukowski David Levering Lewis Joan Shigekawa National Endowment for Gilbert Merkx Mark Silinsky Democracy Maura Monaghan Brent Smith Open Society Foudnations & Chris Morris Mary White Vivian G. Prins Foundation Robert and Barbara Quinn Winston Foundation Family Foundation BENEFACTORS Douglas Schwalbe $499 & BELOW CHAMPIONS Domna Stanton Susan Aaronson FINANCIALS (2018 – 2019) $10,000+ Catharine R. Stimpson Semahagn G. Abebe AAUP Foundation Michael Straus Susan Albertine Fritt Ord Foundation Mike Sweeney & Anonymous (2) SOURCES OF SUPPORT FY19 SUMMARY Matthew Nimetz Dr. Robin Jacobowitz Ali Arab Tampere University Assoc. of Ulrike Beisel Total Revenue DEFENDERS Researchers and Teachers 11 % $2,140,151 Paul Broady $5,000+ Margo Viscusi Ryan Brown Total Expenses $1,904,442 Newman’s Own Foundation* 26% David Bruning Protection Services $992,738 The Politiken Foundation SUPPORTERS 63% Kelly Clancy Lisa Anderson $500+ Monitoring & Advocacy $591,232 Kathleen Comerford Jonathan Cole Alberta Arthurs Research & Learning $158,874 Jonathan Fanton Alan & Susan Becker Michael Conway Admin & Fundraising $161,598 Jenny Holzer Jay M. Bernstein Burak Copur GRANTS The Crain Family MEMBERS Anonymous Jonathan Coopersmith Leveraged for At-Risk Scholars $4,678,803 Tara Crain INDIVIDUALS Rosalie J. Wolf Ariel Dorfman (Return on protection costs) Katarina Bengtson Ekström Mark Darby Joel Forman & Shannon Dea Dora Galacatos Regina Dolan-Sewell Scholars at Risk is an independent not-for-profit corporation, hosted at New York University.

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Board Monika Steinel Catharine R. Stimpson, Chair European University Association (EUA) Naila Al Atrash Bodil Stelwagen Lisa Anderson UAF SAR Netherlands and Belgium Alfred Babo Rowena Pecchenino Jonathan R. Cole SAR Ireland Irving Epstein Catrin Scheiber and Olivier Vincent Jonathan F. Fanton SAR Switzerland Robert J. Jones Julia Wojnowska-Radzińska Thomas Keenan Compostela Group of Universities (CGU) Jan Krukowski Stephen Wordsworth Gara LaMarche Cara-SAR UK Universities Network Gilbert W. Merkx Viera Žúborová Looking Forward Matthew Nimetz SAR Slovakia Judith Shapiro In 2020, the Scholars at Risk Ambassadors Council John J. Studzinski Network will celebrate its 20th Lloyd Axworthy, Chair Rosalie J. Wolf anniversary and 10th Global Anthony Appiah International Advisory Committee Louise Arbour Congress, to be held March 25–28 Adam Braver Ian Buruma in partnership with Johns Hopkins Robbert Dijkgraaf SAR United States University and AAAS. SAR invites Karolina Catoni Ariel Dorfman SAR Sweden Shirin Ebadi you to join the conversation on Kris Dejonckheere Richard Goldstone academic freedom and free inquiry Network of Universities from the Azar Nafisi Capitals of Europe (UNICA) Sigrid Rausing by attending the Congress and Viviana Fernandez helping to set SAR’s agenda for the Staff SAR Canada coming years. Ester Gallo Robert Quinn, Executive Director SAR Italy Rose Anderson Karen-Lise Knudsen Shreya Balhara SAR Norway Alexandra Bell Søren Høfler Leona Binz SAR Denmark Chelsea Blackburn Cohen David John Lock Lauren Crain Magna Charta Universitatum Observatory Madochée Bozier Sean Manley-Casimir Madeline Everett Consortium for North American Higher Educa- Orla Duke-Garcia tion Collaboration (CONAHEC) Ian Graham Eeva Nyrövaara Emily Kay SAR Finland Jesse Levine Stefan Rummel Starr Miller SAR Germany Daniel Munier Catrin Scheiber Sinead O’Gorman SAR Switzerland Joyce Pisarello Barbara Sheldon Clare Robinson SAR Germany Sarina Rosenthal List from Sept. 2018–Sept. 2019

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