Students will engage in research and scholarly informed activism in support of SAR’s Scholars in Prison Project– which seeks to support and free wrongfully imprisoned scholars and students around the world. This year’s case will focus on imprisoned scholars India, China, Iran, Belarus and Egypt.
Students engage in research and analysis to advance the understanding of Canadian cultural heritage and interdisciplinary considerations as to the effects of Canadian Armed Forces’ (CAF’s) military actions in the past, present, and future. The third cohort will build on the work of the first two cohorts, and will explore how cultural heritage protection games could be used to inform the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and engage youth in peace and security processes.
Students engaged in research and analysis to advance the understanding of Canadian cultural heritage and interdisciplinary considerations as to the effects of Canadian Armed Forces’ (CAF’s) military actions in the past, present, and future. Through a literature review, students explored how various stakeholders conceptualize ‘space’/’place’ and the relationships of military forces and communities within those spaces.
Students worked collaboratively towards understanding how the Canadian Higher Education sector is responding to threats to Academic Freedom in Canada and how such policies might inform the rights-based approach taken by global SAR Network and the work of SAR-Canada.
This opportunity was a remote academic freedom monitoring project led by students (supported by collaborators), who researched global instances of scholars facing professional retaliation for their academic or other expression related to COVID-19 (i.e. scholars losing their jobs or being prosecuted as a result of speaking out).