2024
08.02.2024 Poser pour la liberté: Round Table
As part of
the award-winning French exposition “Poser pour la liberté/Standing for Academic
Freedom”, The Global Office together with the IFRA-SHS/Institut français
Frankfurt organized a round table with researchers in exile at Goethe
University.
We heard
from Prof. Dr. Nataliia Medzhybovska, a postdoc researcher from Ukraine at the
Chair of Information Systems and Information Management, and Dr. Olesia
Zvezdova, also a postdoc researcher from Ukraine at the Dept. of Political
Science. From Turkey, we heard from Mehmet Mutlu, a PhD researcher at the
Faculty of Social Science, and Dr. Serdar Değirmencioğlu, a postdoc researcher at
the Institute for Social Geography. Finally, Prof. Dr. Aung Aug, a postdoc researcher
from Myanmar at the Department of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, joined
us as well.
We are
grateful to our speakers for giving a first-hand account of their (academic)
life in exile and to all those who came to listen.
06.02.2024 New Year's Reception
On Feburary
6th, the Goethe Welcome Centre and the Foundation for Promotion of
International Scientific Relations at Goethe University invited all
international researchers and scholars at GU to the traditional annual New Year's
Reception at the guesthouse in the Frauenlobstraße.
