Organizer: NYSEAN and the Southeast Asia Coalition for Academic Freedom (SEACAF)
Type/Location: Hybrid / New York, NY
Description:
Join NYSEAN and the Southeast Asia Coalition for Academic Freedom for a conference examining attacks on intellectual and academic freedom in Southeast Asia and the United States. Scholars, journalists, and activists will gather to look at how universities and intellectuals often become the first target of rising authoritarianism, the costs and benefits of collective action, and the strategies for resistance. The conversation will address the impact of funding cuts, strengthened immigration enforcement, and assaults on higher education in the United States as well as the lessons learned from crackdowns in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Turkey.
Speakers:
Leon Botstein, Bard College
Bencharat Chua, Southeast Asia Coalition on Academic Freedom
Rachel Cooper, Asia Society
Jonathan Friedman, PEN America, Free Expression Program
Sol Iglesias, University of the Philippines - Diliman
Pita Limjaroenrat, Harvard University and former head of the Move Forward Party in Thailand
Tom Pepinsky, Cornell University
Asli Peker, New York University
Kyaw Moe Tun, Parami University
Kenneth Roth, Princeton University and former head of Human Rights Watch
Ashutosh Varshney, Brown University
Herlambang Wiratraman, Gadjah Mada University
Registration:
To attend the event in person, please register here.
To attend the event virtually, please register here.