This meeting took place from the 8^th to the 10^th of June 2022.

Academics in Solidarity invited its members for a Network Meeting & Retreat between 08.-10. June 2022 at Wannseeforum Berlin. The event was conceived in order to exchange and network in a semi-closed environment, to create stringer bonds through joint experiences such as working groups, canoeing, forest walks camp fire and to elaborate strategies to better support scholars in exile in the future, in and outside academia.

The thematic concept gave participants the chance to investigate three key issues: First, the situation of migrant scholars working and living in the German research environment. The focus lay here on what one can learn from previous experiences of and research on “academics in exile”. Second, the attendees discussed the changing concepts and practices of solidarity performed and called for in reference to flight and migration or authoritarian shifts. The main emphasis was put on present-day notions and practices of solidarity in light of existing political struggles. Third, members negotiated matters of academic freedom by discussing the current state of research in different countries and by outlining initiatives dedicated to changing conditions of academic freedom.

FInd the full report of the retreat below.