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URL:https://www.ukfiet.org/events/symposium-academic-freedom-and-ethical-s
 cholarship-in-times-of-precarity-and-genocide/
SUMMARY:Symposium: Academic freedom and ethical scholarship in times of pre
 carity and genocide
DESCRIPTION:Thursday 21 March 2024\, 11am-4:30pm GMT\nThis is an in-person 
 event in Cambridge\, with the option to join online.\nREGISTER HERE\nAcade
 mic freedom is under threat now more than ever. During genocide\, academic
 s are targeted and killed\, and their voices are being silenced. This symp
 osium raises for discussion threats to academic freedom and the need for e
 thical scholarship as key to tackling injustices. \nThe symposium will be
 gin with a keynote address by Professor Adam Habib\, Director of the Schoo
 l of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)\, who has been actively involved 
 in debates about academic freedom and the role and responsibility of unive
 rsities\, through his current role as well as former position as the Vice 
 Chancellor at the University of the Witwatersrand\, South Africa. This wil
 l be followed by a panel discussion with experts from academic professiona
 l associations and universities who have been at the forefront of these de
 bates. Panellists include Professor Neve Gordon\, Chair of the British Soc
 iety for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES)' Committee on Academic Freedom\,
  and Dr Bashir Abu-Manneh and Dr Kelli Rudolph from the University of Kent
 .\nThe symposium will end with the speakers\, together with government and
  academic trade union representatives\, identifying actions that universit
 y leaders\, academic professional associations\, researchers and others ne
 ed to take to address academic freedom deliberations emerging during the s
 ymposium.\nThe event is co-organised by the University of Cambridge Resear
 ch for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL Centre) and Centre for Lebanese
  Studies. It builds on their seminar series focused on the need to tackle 
 multiple and interrelated injustices in the Global South\, which manifest 
 in war and genocide\, and the implications of this for education. Professo
 r Pauline Rose\, Professor Maha Shuayb and Professor Yusuf Sayed will act 
 as facilitators for the discussion throughout the day.\nYou can read the b
 log written by the facilitators in collaboration with other academic colle
 agues: What does ethical solidarity look like for academic professional bo
 dies in times of unfolding genocide?
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