Scholars at Risk Network

SAR Speaker Series

Why a Speaker Series?
The Scholars at Risk Speaker Series offers an opportunity to educate campus communities and the public about threats to academic freedom and attacks on scholars. Join us this season and invite to your campus one or more diverse, interesting, courageous scholars, each with a powerful and unique story to share.

How does it work?
Hosting a Scholars at Risk Speaker is an excellent way to promote academic freedom and get your institution involved with Network activities. Each event is tailored to fit the schedule and interests of the host campus. A visit may include a lecture, panel, workshop, informal seminar or some combination, and may last from a few hours to one or more days.

In most cases, a scholar assisted by the Scholars at Risk Network or the IIE Scholar Rescue Fund visits a Network university or college with a representative of the Network office. Scholars spend time discussing both their academic work and the threats they experienced at home. The Network representative discusses Scholars at Risk's role in defending academic communities worldwide and the vital role played by the Network's member universities and colleges. Local hosts may wish to give a reception for the speaker before or after the event. The Network office staff will help coordinate these activities and ensure that the event fits your campus needs.

For each event, we ask the host institution to:

Schedule venue arrangements (time, location, and equipment for the event)

Publicize the event and coordinate visits with campus and local media

Provide speakers with lodgings if an overnight stay is required and transportation to and from the airport or other events

Provide an honorarium and pay all travel expenses for speakers to be shared between the scholar and the Network. The honorarium is an important means of supplementing the scholar's income and helping the Network to meet basic operating expenses.
We understand that some institutions can provide more support than others. Please let us know if cost is a concern, and we will help you identify possible resources (seeking co-sponsors such as other departments, centers, or institutions may help to defray costs).

How do I request information about the scholars?
SAR will provide detailed information about these scholars, including background information to interested universities and colleges for selection of a speaker and general media purposes. Contact Carla Stuart for more information by email at or by phone at (212) 998-2179.

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Speaker Profiles
For information on individual candidates, please contact the Network office

(by country)
Afghanistan
Cameroon
Cote d'Ivoire
Egypt
Ethiopia
Iran
Myanmar (Burma)
Pakistan
Russia
Rwanda
Swaziland
Tunisia
Uganda
Zimbabwe

(by discipline)
African Studies
Burmese Studies
Central Asian Studies
Creative Writing
Electrical Engineering
Ethnography
Human Rights
International Law
International Relations
Iranian Studies
Islamic Studies
Journalism
Library Science
Linguistics
Medical Physics
Middle Eastern Studies
Nuclear Physics
Peace Studies
Philosophy
Political Science
Public Health
Public Policy
Rwandan Studies
Southeast Asian Studies
Women's Studies