Scholars at Risk at UBC

Urgent Update: SAR has learned that Dr. Djalali, a Professor of Disaster Medicine will soon have his death sentence carried out. Please see SAR's request for urgent action and stay tuned here for further calls to action. https://twitter.com/ScholarsAtR/status/1331286525942898692

Save the date!! On #HumanRightsDay, December 10th from 9-11am PST, SAR Canada & the McGill Centre for Human Right & Legal Pluralism (CHRLP) will be hosting this exciting roundtable on "The Effects of COVID-19 on Knowledge Creation, Exchange and Dissemination"! Panelists: ... Robert Quinn: SAR Executive Director Eva Egron-Polak: Former Secretary General of the International Association of Universities Nathalie Des Rosiers: Principal of Massey College UofT Shuchi Karim: SAR Scholar Western University Stuart J. Murray: Canada Research Chair in Rhetoric & Ethics Carleton University Andrew M. Johnston: Associate Professor of History Carleton University & moderated by Professor Nandini Ramanujam of the CHRLP at McGill! Register below! https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLScnP-DW9sTqm4FBRZ/viewform

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**STUDENT RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY** COVID-19, Academic Freedom and Human Rights Research Project is a remote academic freedom monitoring project led by students (supported by Scholars at Risk, UBC Office of Regional and International Community Engagement) who will research on global instances of scholars facing professional retaliation for their academic or other expression related to COVID-19 (i.e. scholars losing their jobs or being prosecuted as a result of speaking out). More details and how to apply: https://scholarsatrisk.ubc.ca/opportunities/

Thanks to all who joined for today's webinar on Human Rights and Academic Freedom. Lots of ways to get involved. Please consider helping us advocate on the case of Dr. Djalali by signing the petition and helping us gather more signatures. https://www.change.org/p/help-dr-ahmadreza-djalali