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Step into the realm of scholarly conversation with SAIH President Hector Ulloa and Amy Kapit, Associate Professor at Swarthmore College, as they unpack SAIH's latest report, 'Activism Under Attack.' They reflect on the effects of over fifteen years of d

In the Student advocacy seminars, students follow scholars and students who have been wrongfully imprisoned and coordinate advocacy activities on their behalf.
Through the seminars, students and university staff are part of a larger network, learning about individual cases, issues pertaining to academic freedom as well as developing skills related to advocacy and campaigning.
How are these acts of solidarity affecting the scholars and their families? Why is it important to lift the university as a site for critical questions and solidarity?
Listen to SAIH's president Hector Ulloa in a conversation about the Student Advocacy Seminars with Professor and author Adam Braver, former chairperson for Scholars at Risk USA Section and coordinator of the student advocacy seminars– a concrete example of university-based solidarity.

La pandemia cambió al sistema educativo tal como lo conocemos. ¿Como ha afectado la digitalización a la calidad de la educación superior? ¿Cuál es el papel de los actores empresariales, como Microsoft y Google que proporcionan la tecnología utilizada allí? ¿Como afecta la transición a la esfera digital a los grupos indígenas y marginados? Escuche a Héctor Ulloa, el presidente de SAIH, hablando con académico William Flores de la Universidad intercultural en Nicaragua, URACCAN.  

The pandemic was a shock to the education system as we know it. How has digitalization affected access to and the quality of higher education?

What is the role of commercial actors such as Microsoft and Google?

And how are indigenous and marginalized groups affected by digitalization?

Listen to SAIH President Hector Ulloa in conversation with Tania Rossmann from the intercultural university URACCAN in Nicaragua (University of the Autonomous Regions of the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast)

South Africa has a long and proud history of student activism. What was the role of students in the struggle against Apartheid? What are the current topics of student activism? And what is the situation for students rights and academic freedom today? This and much more you will hear in this episode wuth Sindisa Monakali, student activist and student at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa and SAIH activist Hilde Storhaug.

What are students in Colombia fighting for? What happened with the peace process in Colombia? How is the government responding to the demands of the Colombian students? What is the role of commercial universities? This and much more when Hector Ulloa, Vice President of SAIH talks with María Paula Rozo from Colombian student union ACEU.