Academic Freedom: Global Demands and Local Responses

Conference School of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Almaty Management University Almaty, 31 October – 2 November 2024   Academic freedom is a cornerstone of scholarly and research activities worldwide. The globalization of higher education and science...
Higher Education in an Era of Full-Scale War

Higher Education in an Era of Full-Scale War

How Russian universities are working to normalize the war Dmitry Dubrovsky   Photo: “Visual propaganda” also works to normalize the war. Photo: Mil.ru, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons   According to the...
Para-Academic Communities in Russian Science

Para-Academic Communities in Russian Science

The government may be able to censor research activities at universities, but this will not stop the discussion of scientific issues on independent platforms. Petr Torkanovsky   Photo: Researchers create para-academic channels—grassroots communities, reading...
Homophobia as a Science

Homophobia as a Science

From “non-traditional relationship propaganda” to “LGBT extremism” Dmitry Dubrovsky   Photo: Even before February 2022, homophobia was becoming increasingly widespread in Russian academia. Photo by Stainless Images on Unsplash   Homophobia has long been a...
The “Skolkovo Method”

The “Skolkovo Method”

How a little-known organization from Tolyatti became the “system-thinking-activity” forge for personnel at Russian universities. Ekaterina Trubnikova   Photo: Virtually no critical analysis of Skolkovo’s activities is to be found in the media or scientific...