Online Roundtable Discussion “Rethinking academic relations with Russia in wartime?”

Thursday, 24^th March 2022, 12-14.00 Strasbourg time (CET) via https://bbb.unistra.fr/b/kei-4cx-har-qth

As Ukraine calls on the world to fully isolate Russia by all means, academic communities and science and higher education policy makers in Germany, in France, in the EU and globally, are debating whether to exclude the country from research networks and infrastructures, from joint degrees and exchange programs. This roundtable unites five speakers from different backgrounds with the aim to contrast perspectives and personal as well as research experiences on the question of an academic boycott against Russia.

Participants:

Dr Jörg Schneider, Head of Division International Affairs at DFG (German Research Foundation)

Pr Françoise Daucé, Directrice du Centre d'études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-européen

Pr Ari Sitas, Emeritus, University of Cape Town and Gutenberg Chair at Strasbourg University

Pr Sari Hanafi, American University of Beyrouth and President of the International Sociological Association

Dr Amr Saad Eddin, Independent researcher, PhD Université Libre de Bruxelles

Coorganised by Pr Ari Sitas, Gutenberg Chair at SAGE (Sociétés, Acteurs, Gouvernement en Europe) and SAGE’s research axis 3 “Production, Circulation and Critique of Knowledge” (Wiebke Keim and Magdaléna Hadjiisky)