{"id":10811,"date":"2010-04-14T10:20:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T09:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=10811"},"modified":"2016-11-21T16:46:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T16:46:36","slug":"academic-freedom-in-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=10811","title":{"rendered":"PAST EVENT: Academic freedom in the 21st century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">In collaboration with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics\u00a0will be running a series of panel discussions at UK universities throughout the 2009\/2010 academic year. These will focus on the important role of academics and academic freedom in society and the specific problems faced by academics in trying to carry out their work under repressive conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">15th April, 5-6.30pm &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><strong><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Academic Freedom in the 21st Century<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Lawyer Mark Stephens, Chair of UEL Governors and trustee of Index of Censorship will chair a panel discussion by three academic refugees from Cameroon, Iraq and Rwanda\u00a0covering the personal threats and difficulties they faced as academics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">The event will be held at the University of East London, East Building, G08<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">To RSVP to any CARA\/BIS Academic Freedom Discussion please email <\/span><a href=\"mailto:development.cara@lsbu.ac.uk\"><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">adi.cara@lsbu.ac.uk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academic Freedom in the 21st Century, panel discussion chaired by Mark Stephens. 15 April, University of East London <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[8843,7],"tags":[571,1635,2023],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10811"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81931,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10811\/revisions\/81931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}