Protecting Academia at Risk

Who’s Protecting Academia? Dispatches from the frontlines of higher education under pressure

Universities are under pressure from authoritarian states and algorithmic automation. In this week’s Protecting Academia

🎙️New Episode: How has academia shifted from fostering public knowledge to operating on a market-driven logic? We discuss neoliberal universities, precarious academic labor, and the future of critical thought with Andrea Pető, Dina Gusejnova, Elena Trifan and Tania Arcimovich
#Neoliberalism #HigherEd

📢 How does war reshape knowledge production?

On Feb 26, Nadiya Kiss delivered a powerful lecture on the paradoxes of academic (un)productivity in wartime, highlighting epistemic injustice, academic displacement, and resilience.

New Protecting Academia at Risk episode! Why are certain scholars and histories absent from discussions on academic freedom? This episode explores the silences surrounding Belarusian academia, gendered exclusions, and the politics of recognition.
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On February 12, Bernhard Kleeberg, Tania Arcimovich, and Nadiya Kiss gathered at Kleine Synagoge, Erfurt, for the History of Science Study Day. They explored the intersections knowledge production and the challenges scholars face today.

Best way to celebrate History of Science Study Day!

New episode of our podcast takes a critical look at how universities respond to displaced scholars, political shifts, and the challenges of academic survival. Are institutions truly supporting scholars at risk, or is risk becoming a mere label in academia’s competitive landscape?

Tania Arcimovich presenting her paper "War and Epistemology: Displaced Female Scholars’ Perspectives" at "Re-Thinking Post-Socialist War(s): Comparative Dimensions of the War in Ukraine," Justus Liebig Uni / UNDIPUS joint project and Charles Uni / IMS Research Centre “Ukraine in a Changing Europe.”

What does risk in academia really mean? In this episode we talk about academic freedom, institutional challenges, and the shifting political landscape shaping higher education.

🔗 Listen here: podcasts.ceu.edu/content/reth...
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🎉 Happy New Year from the Protecting Academia at Risk team!

Start 2025 with a new podcast episode featuring Elena Trifan, exploring the challenges and resilience of scholars at risk in Romania.

Listen here: podcasts.ceu.edu/content/navi...

#AcademicFreedom #ScholarsAtRisk #PROAC #HigherEducation

🎧 New Podcast Episode Alert! 🎧

In our latest episode, our collegue, sociolinguist Nadiya Kiss, explores the role of language, migration, and identity in times of forced displacement.

Wishing everyone a restful holiday season! 🎄 We'll return in January with new episodes and more inspiring stories.

The first day of the "Academic Migration within the EU: Opportunities and Constraints" workshop at the Malmö Institute for Migration Studies, Malmö University, was incredibly insightful! Special thanks to our colleague
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Our colleague @Andrea Pető has published a powerful piece titled "Strategies of Contemporary Changemakers Against Anti-Gender Movements" in Ukrainian language.

Read the article here: genderindetail.org.ua/library/poli...

🎙️ New Podcast Episode!

Our colleague Tania Arcimovich shares her journey as a Belarusian scholar, exploring gender, risk, and academic displacement through an auto-ethnographic lens.

Listen now: podcasts.ceu.edu/content/prot...

#ProAc #ScholarsAtRisk #GenderStudies

🎙️ New podcast episode! Our colleague Prof. Dr. Bernhard Kleeberg from the University of Erfurt dives into Political Epistemologies and the micro-politics of knowledge in Central and Eastern Europe.
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New podcast episode: Rethinking Academia at Risk: Insights from Europe’s Peripheries! Alina Dragolea, Associate Professor at SNSPA and a key member of our team dives into the unique challenges faced by at-risk academics in Central&Eastern Europe.
#Proac #SNSPA #gerdahenkel #erfurtuniversity #CEU

Our colleague Nadiya Kiss presented her work on Protecting Academia at Risk at the "Language Ideologies in the EU and Europe" workshop organised by JLU. Great discussions and collaboration with colleagues across Europe! Congrats to all involved!
#proac #gerdahenkel

🎙️ New episode alert! In our Protecting Academia at Risk series, Dina Gusejnova from LSE discusses the challenges of supporting displaced scholars in Europe and rethinking academic mobility.
🔗 You can listen to it on the Central European University podcast platform!

#proac #gerdahenkel #ceu

We're excited to launch our "Protecting Academia at Risk" podcast series! Explore the stories of at-risk scholars & the challenges of academic freedom across Europe. Listen to the first episode: Resistance & Resilience with Andrea Pető.

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Rewarding mobility? Towards a realistic European policy agenda for academics at risk - Comparative Migration Studies This article maps from a critical and comparative perspective how scholars at risk are currently being integrated into the European research infrastructure, as well as in various EU and non-EU Member ...

🌍 Before our current project, our team contributed to "Rewarding Mobility? Towards a Realistic European Policy Agenda for Academics at Risk." This work laid the groundwork for our focus on protecting scholars at risk & strengthening EU policies.

At "The Promise of (Un)Happiness? Gender, Labour, and Migration," Tania Arcimovich presented her paper: "Notes on Unsuccess and Failure as Critical Discourse: Stories of Female Migrant Scholars from Belarus."
Highlighting the untold stories of female migrants, she reveals gaps in support systems.

🌟 Meet Dr. Nadiya Kiss, our postdoc expert in sociolinguistics! Her research focuses on language policy, minority languages, & narratives of forced migration. Excited to have her on the team! 🌍📚 #ProAC #gerdahenkel #protectingacademia #erfurtuniversity #Sociolinguistics #LanguagePolicy #Migration

🌟 Meet Dr. Elena Trifan, our postdoctoral fellow! With expertise in sociology & anthropology, Elena's research spans topics like higher ed, Romanian music, & social justice. Excited to have her insights driving our project forward! 📚 #proac #gerdahenkel #anthropology

Happy to welcome Dr. Tania Arcimovich to our team! Specializing in cultural studies, feminist theory, and art history, Tania brings deep insights from her work on post-Soviet societies and avant-garde art. #Proac #protectingacademia #erfurtuniversity #gerdahenkel #FeministTheory

Meet Bernhard Kleeberg, our esteemed colleague from University of Erfurt! Historian of science, with expertise in political economy, sociology, & life sciences. His scholarly work enriches our understanding of historical and contemporary scientific discourses
#proac #gerdahenkel #UniversityOfErfurt

A New Organon: Science Studies in Interwar Poland (Historische Wissensforschung): Cain, Friedrich, Kleeberg, Bernhard: 9783161543159: Amazon.com: Books A New Organon: Science Studies in Interwar Poland (Historische Wissensforschung) [Cain, Friedrich, Kleeberg, Bernhard] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A New Organon: Science Studies in Interwar Poland (Historische Wissensforschung)

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As summer ends, delve into "A New Organon: Science Studies in Interwar Poland" edited by Friedrich Cain & our colleague Bernhard Kleeberg, which explores the debates in early 20th-century, post-independence Poland among sociologists, philosophers & scientists.
#ProAC #erfurtuniversity #gerdahenkel

Meet Dr. Alina Dragolea! An Associate Professor at SNSPA, Bucharest, specializing in political science with a focus on gender equality and democratic erosion. Her work deeply explores the intersections of welfare, education, and labor market outcomes. #proac #gerdahenkel

Ukraine's Many Faces Russia's large-scale invasion on the 24th of February 2022 once again made Ukraine the focus of world media. Behind those headlines remain the complex developments in Ukraine's history, national ident...

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Our team, including Andrea Pető & Dina Gusejnova, recommends "Ukraine's Many Faces" for holiday reading! Edited by Olena Palko and Manuel Ferez Gill at the University of New Europe, this series dives into Ukraine's history & current challenges.

#holidayread #proac #gerdahenkel

🎙️ Exciting News! Our new podcast, part of the "Protecting Academia at Risk" project, is launching at the end of this month! Stay tuned for expert discussions on academic freedom, higher education challenges, and more. #PodcastLaunch #AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #StayTuned