Palestine Caucus Series and Update on CAHE’s Day of Action

Thursday 13 March, 1pm EST on Zoom BDS, International Law, and the Struggle for Rights and Representation on US Campuses Workshop Introduction and moderator: Karim Mattar (CAHE) Speakers: Omar Barghouti (Palestinian BDS National Committee) and Radhika Sainath (Palestine Legal) Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/pyyCqnJvT1ain-vG4sJ5mg Please join CAHE on Thursday 13 March, 1pm EST for our BDS, International Law, and the…

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The word STOP appears in yellow on a blue background and the word WAR! appears in blue on a yellow background with colors matching the Ukrainian flag.

Slava Ukrainy!

BY HANK REICHMAN The recently published Winter issue of Academe, devoted to the theme of “higher education in wartime,” which I guest-edited, includes three articles by Ukrainian scholars.  Odesa historian and philosopher Oksana Dovgopolova writes movingly about the impact of the war on her institution.  “War creates immense challenges for higher education—there is no way around…

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From the Guest Editor: Higher Education in Wartime

BY HENRY REICHMAN Following is the guest editor’s introduction to the winter 2025 issue of Academe, out this week. The full table of contents for the issue is available here. We live in a world at war. According to the United Nations, the current century can be characterized as “a new era of conflict and violence.” The…

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The Australian National University and Palestine Solidarity Protests

BY TAMARA JACKA Since October 2023, students on campuses across Australia have been protesting in large numbers in solidarity with Palestine and against universities’ complicity in Israeli occupation and genocidal violence in Palestine. In April and May of this year, Palestine solidarity encampments were set up at eleven campuses. These were peaceful protest encampments, whose…

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Court Rejects Kagarlitsky’s Appeal

BY HANK REICHMAN Sociologist, antiwar activist, and internationally renowned Marxist thinker Boris Kagarlitsky, a professor at the Moscow Higher School of Economics and head of the Moscow think tank The Institute for Globalization Studies and Social Movements, who was convicted of “justifying terrorism” for remarks he made about Russia’s war against Ukraine and sentenced to…

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Open Letter from Gaza Academics

POSTED BY JENNIFER RUTH This open letter to the world from Gaza academics and university administrators was published yesterday by Al Jazeera here. On May 6, Israel’s cabinet voted to ban Al Jazeera and shut down its local offices. Among the many things American academics might do in response to help, one would be to…

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Boris Kagarlitsky Sentenced to Five Years

BY HANK REICHMAN I’m a historian of Russia by training, but I guess I didn’t realize that there’s apparently no double jeopardy rule, at least with respect to sentencing, in Russia.  Turns out that I—and many others—celebrated too soon when back in December we learned of the release of renowned Marxist sociologist and university professor…

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Boris Kagarlitsky is Free!

BY HANK REICHMAN Sociologist, antiwar activist, and internationally renowned Marxist thinker Boris Kagarlitsky, a professor at the Moscow Higher School of Economics and head of the Moscow think tank The Institute for Globalization Studies and Social Movements, has been released after paying a fine of 600,000 rubles ($6,600) for “justifying terrorism” in comments he made…

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Russian College Ends Liberal Arts Program

BY HANK REICHMAN A bit over two years ago I posted to this blog a piece about a decision by Russia’s prosecutor general to designate New York’s Bard College as an “undesirable organization.” Since 1997, Bard had been collaborating with St. Petersburg State University, offering a program of open enrollment liberal arts courses for students…

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