Open Letter to German Academia

We are deeply concerned to learn that the Zentrum für Türkeistudien und Integrationsforschung (ZfTI) in Essen is sponsoring a panel discussion on 13 June 2019 on the integration of refugee academics and students into Turkish higher education, and that it will do so in collaboration with the Turkish Council of Higher Education (YÖK). A similar event was scheduled to be held on 11 June 2019 at the Brunei Gallery in…

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Open Letter to the The University of Duisburg-Essen

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We are deeply concerned to learn that the Zentrum für Türkeistudien und Integrationsforschung (ZfTI) in Essen is sponsoring a panel discussion on 13 June 2019 on the integration of refugee academics and students into Turkish higher education, and that it will do so in collaboration with the Turkish Council of Higher Education (YÖK). A similar event was scheduled to be held on 11 June 2019 at the Brunei Gallery in…

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Invitation to the Press Statement of Academics for Peace

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As Academics for Peace - Germany, we are organizing a demonstration to protest the imprisonment of Prof. Dr. Füsun Üstel in Turkey this week. Since the mass trials against all signatories of the Peace Petition titled "We Will Not Be A Party To This Crime" started more than a year ago, Prof. Dr. Üstel is now the first academic who is prisoned this week. Peace Petition was first publicised in…

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Finding Common Solutions: Precarious Labour and the Lack of Diversity in German Higher Education

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Joint Workshop of GEW Hessen and Academics for PeaceGermany in Collaboration with the Department of Sociology at the Goethe University Frankfurt May 24 - 25, 2019 Frankfurt am Main The Program of the workshop: Finding Common Solutions: Precarious Labour and the Lack of Diversity in German Higher EducationDownload

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