Free to Think podcast

Free to Think podcast

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Free to Think features conversation with interesting, thoughtful, and inspiring individuals whose research, teaching, or expression falls at the always sensitive intersection of power and ideas. We’ll be speaking with those who have the courage to seek truth and speak truth, often at great risk, as well as with those who support them and share their stories. Free to Think is a podcast presented by Scholars at Risk, where we celebrate people with the courage to think, question, and share ideas. For information on membership, activities, or donating to Scholars at Risk, visit www.scholarsatrisk.org.

Recent Episodes

  • ‘Refusing to accept the status quo’ — Students speak up for at-risk scholars through SAR seminars & legal clinics

    5 months ago
  • Navigating the ‘mental prison’ – Mubashar Hasan on higher education in Bangladesh

    7 months ago
  • Gaining or losing academic freedom? Decoding the Academic Freedom Index with Katrin Kinzelbach and Lars Lott

    8 months ago
  • “Undoing the censorship that was stuck in me” – A conversation with Achiro Olwoch, writer, playwright, filmmaker from Northern Uganda

    8 months ago
  • “We have no definition” — MSCA4Ukraine fellow Artem Nazarko on prosecuting war crimes in Ukraine

    9 months ago
  • “Our voices really do matter from an early age” – Student advocates at UC Santa Barbara highlight wrongful charges against Egyptian scholar Patrick Zaki

    2 years ago
  • “‘Jane from California' might be an Afghan woman…” University of the People's Shai Reshef on education in Afghanistan under the Taliban

    2 years ago
  • “Raising the cost of repression” — Sol Iglesias on political violence, red tagging, and threats to academic freedom in the Philippines

    2 years ago
  • “Every day my children can go to school, I laugh, because my heart is full of joy,” with SAR scholar Zahra Hakimi

    2 years ago
  • The "forgotten crisis" of attacks on higher education in Venezuela

    2 years ago