By Elizabeth Redden. A British professor is unable to give a plenary speech at a conference in Arizona because of her academic travels to an archaeological site in Sudan in 2014. She will instead be delivering her talk at the Cultural Evolution Society’s conference, which began Monday at Arizona State University, by Skype. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. A British Ph.D. student has been detained in solitary confinement for five months and is facing trial on spying charges in the United Arab Emirates, the Financial Times reported. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. A second instructor at the University of Michigan declines to write a letter for a student to study in Israel, citing support for the boycott, and a first professor who refused to write a letter is disciplined. Meanwhile, Israel has detained and ordered the deportation of a U.S. student for her support for the boycott movement. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. As part of a hard-line speech on China Thursday, Vice President Pence said that China seeks to exert pressure on scholars, students and universities abroad to toe the Chinese Communist Party line. He specifically cited the case of a University of Maryland, College Park, student from China, Yang Shuping, who came under heavy criticism back home after giving a spring 2017 commencement speech in which she praised “the fresh air of free speech” in the U.S. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. An American student is expected to be deported from Israel for backing the boycott movement against the nation, Haaretz reported Thursday. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. Editors of book series stop publishing with Springer Nature to protest its acquiescence to Chinese government censorship demands. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. White House aide Stephen Miller urged President Trump to end all student visas for Chinese nationals before the proposal was abandoned over concerns about the economic and diplomatic impact, the Financial Times reported, citing four people familiar with the deliberations. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. The University of Brighton, in Britain, has sought to clarify that it is not promoting prostitution after a support organization for sex workers was given a booth at a fair for new students, the BBC reported. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. Middle East studies scholars are criticizing a decision by George Washington University to cooperate with The New York Times to create a public online archive of the “ISIS files,” internal Islamic State documents that were removed from Iraq by the newspaper and became the subject of the investigative article "The ISIS Files." The Middle East Studies Association’s Committee on Academic Freedom previously criticized the newspaper's decision to remove and publicize the documents, arguing in a letter in May that the Times had no right to remove the documents and that the publication of documents containing personal information risked endangering the safety of individual Iraqis. More...
By David Matthews for Times Higher Education. Team of scholars uncovered thousands of suspected abusers, but some say they would have found more if not for the limits they accepted on their work. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
