Supporting at-risk scholars – GYA workshop at AAAS conference

Members of the Global Young Academy’s At-Risk Scholar Initiative participated in the AAAS Science, Technology and Human Rights Conference, from 23-25 October 2019 in Washington, DC, USA. Üzeyir Ogurlu, Lecturer, University of Wisconsin, and GYA member Teresa Stoepler, co-lead of the At-Risk Scholars Initiative, organized and spoke at an interactive workshop “Supporting at-risk and refugee […]

GYA at Breaking and Creating Boundaries in the Middle East Conference

In August, Abdalhadi Alijla (Sweden), co-lead of the GYA Global Migration and Human Rights working group participated in the Eleventh Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies in Helsinki, Finland. During the Conference on “Breaking and Creating Boundaries in the Middle East” Abdalhadi presented a paper on the importance of auto-ethnographies in borders and migration studies. […]