BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs \;East Asia Program pr esents \;New Threats to Academic Freedom in Asia \;Researchers\, i nstitutions\, teachers\, and students around the world are confronting new and growing threats to academic freedom. Academic freedom in and on Asian countries has faced particular assault over the last decade\, with increa singly global ramifications. In this roundtable event\, sponsored by the O pen Society Foundations\, we will explore emerging threats to academic fre edom as well as their downstream political\, economic and cultural impact. Participants will discuss trends in censorship and new modes of suppressi on in an effort to shed light on the problem and provide reference points to those working in restrictive academic environments. \; \;Paneli sts:  \;Katrin KinzelbachKatrin Kinzelbach is a Professor of Political Science at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg\, where she teaches the international p olitics of human rights. Before joining FAU in 2019\, Kinzelbach was assoc iate director of the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin and a visiti ng professor at the \; Central European University in Budapest. \; In 2017\, working in close cooperation with the Scholars at Risk Network\ , she initiated a world-wide data collection effort on academic freedom\, the Academic Freedom Index (AFi)\, which was implemented in partnership wi th the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg\, and launched in 2 020. \;Lynette H. Ong \;Lynette H. Ong is a political scientist at the University of Toronto. She specializes in the politics of China and S outheast Asia and has written widely on the Chinese Party-state power\, re pression\, social protests\, as well as the economy and financial sector. Her research addresses the intersections of authoritarian politics\, conte ntious politics and the political economy. She has published widely in a r ange of academic journals in political science\, including \;Perspecti ves on Politics\, Comparative Politics\, International Political Science R eview\, and in area studies\, namely \;China Quarterly\, China Journal \, Journal of Contemporary Asia\, Journal of East Asian Studies\, etc. She is the author of \;Prosper and Perish: Credit and Fiscal Systems in R ural China\, (Cornell University Press\, 2012). She was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University’ Weatherhead Center for International Affairs in 202 0\, and previously an An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at the Fairbank Center f or Chinese Studies at Harvard University. She has also held visiting fello wship at various esteemed universities in China.Robert QuinnRobert Quinn i s the founding Executive Director of the Scholars at Risk Network\, an ind ependent not-for-profit corporation based at New York University\, and hos t of the Free to Think podcast.Mr. Quinn formerly served as a member of th e Council of the Magna Charta Observatory\, based in Bologna\, Italy\; Exe cutive Director of the Institute of International Education’s Scholar Resc ue Fund\; on the Steering Committee of the Network for Education and Acade mic Rights (NEAR)\, based in London\, UK\; a member of the Committee on Sc ientific Freedom and Responsibility of the American Association for the Ad vancement of Science\; a member of the Scientific Committee of Pax Academi ca\, an online journal on academic freedom in Africa published by CODESRIA from Dakar\, Senegal\; a fellow with the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows Program in Washington\, DC. He received an A.B. cum laude from Princeton i n 1988\, a J.D. cum laude from Fordham in 1994\, and an honorary doctorate from Illinois Wesleyan University in 2010. In 2012\, Mr. Quinn and Schola rs at Risk received the University of Oslo’s human rights award\, the Lisl and Leo Eitinger Prize\, for “relentless work to protect the human rights of academics and for having inspired and engaged others to stress the imp ortance of academic freedom.”Moderator:Dimitar D. GueorguievDimitar D. Gue orguiev is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University . He specializes in Chinese politics. His work has been published in sever al top scholarly and general interest outlets. He recently co-authored a C ambridge University Press book on Chinese governance institutions entitled China’s Governance Puzzle. Gueorguiev’s forthcoming book\, Retrofitting L eninism\, looks at non-democratic participation and information control in China. \;Co-sponsored by \;Open Society Foundations and \;Ass ociation for Asian Studies \;Click here to registerFor more informatio n\, please contact Havva Karakas Keles\, hkarakas@syr.edu or to request ac commodation arrangements please contact Morgan Bicknell\, mebickne@syr.edu . DTEND:20210514T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260512T135038Z DTSTART:20210514T140000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:New Threats to Academic Freedom in Asia UID:RFCALITEM639141762384171974 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs \;

East Asia Program presents \;


New Thre ats to Academic Freedom in Asia \;

Researchers\, instit utions\, teachers\, and students around the world are confronting new and growing threats to academic freedom. Academic freedom in and on Asian coun tries has faced particular assault over the last decade\, with increasingl y global ramifications. In this roundtable event\, sponsored by the Open S ociety Foundations\, we will explore emerging threats to academic freedom as well as their downstream political\, economic and cultural impact. Part icipants will discuss trends in censorship and new modes of suppression in an effort to shed light on the problem and provide reference points to th ose working in restrictive academic environments. \;

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Panelists:  \;

Katrin Kinzelbach
Katrin Kinzelbach is a Professor of Politica l Science at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg\, where she teaches the international politics of human rights. Before joining FAU in 2019\, Kinzelbach was asso ciate director of the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin and a visit ing professor at the \; Central European University in Budapest. \ ; In 2017\, working in close cooperation with the Scholars at Risk Network \, she initiated a world-wide data collection effort on academic freedom\, the Academic Freedom Index (AFi)\, which was implemented in partnership w ith the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg\, and launched in 2020. \;


Lynette H. Ong \;
Ly nette H. Ong is a political scientist at the University of Toronto. She sp ecializes in the politics of China and Southeast Asia and has written wide ly on the Chinese Party-state power\, repression\, social protests\, as we ll as the economy and financial sector. Her research addresses the interse ctions of authoritarian politics\, contentious politics and the political economy. She has published widely in a range of academic journals in polit ical science\, including \;Perspectives on Politics\, Comparative Politics\, International Political Science Review\, and in area studi es\, namely \;China Quarterly\, China Journal\, Journal of Contemp orary Asia\, Journal of East Asian Studies\, etc. She is the author o f \;Prosper and Perish: Credit and Fiscal Systems in Rural China\, (Cornell University Press\, 2012). She was a Visiting Fellow at Harv ard University’ Weatherhead Center for International Affairs in 2020\, and previously an An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at the Fairbank Center for Chin ese Studies at Harvard University. She has also held visiting fellowship a t various esteemed universities in China.


Robert Quinn
Robert Quinn is the founding Executive Director of the S cholars at Risk Network\, an independent not-for-profit corporation based at New York University\, and host of the Free to Think podcast.
Mr. Qui nn formerly served as a member of the Council of the Magna Charta Observat ory\, based in Bologna\, Italy\; Executive Director of the Institute of In ternational Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund\; on the Steering Committee of the Network for Education and Academic Rights (NEAR)\, based in London\, UK\; a member of the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility of the American Association for the Advancement of Science\; a member of the Scientific Committee of Pax Academica\, an online journal on academic fre edom in Africa published by CODESRIA from Dakar\, Senegal\; a fellow with the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows Program in Washington\, DC. He receive d an A.B. cum laude from Princeton in 1988\, a J.D. cum laude from Fordham in 1994\, and an honorary doctorate from Illinois Wesleyan University in 2010. In 2012\, Mr. Quinn and Scholars at Risk received the University of Oslo’s human rights award\, the Lisl and Leo Eitinger Prize\, for “relentl ess work to protect the human rights of academics and for having inspired and engaged others to stress the importance of academic freedom.”

< strong>Moderator:
Dimitar D. Gueorguiev
Di mitar D. Gueorguiev is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Syracus e University. He specializes in Chinese politics. His work has been publis hed in several top scholarly and general interest outlets. He recently co- authored a Cambridge University Press book on Chinese governance instituti ons entitled China’s Governance Puzzle. Gueorguiev’s forthcoming book\, Retrofitting Leninism\, looks at non-democratic participation and i nformation control in China. \;


Co-sponsored by \ ;Open Society Foundations and \;Association for Asian Studies \;


Click here to register


For more information\, please contact Havva Karakas Keles\, hkarakas@syr.edu or to request accommodation arrangements please contact Morgan Bicknell\, mebickne@syr.edu.

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