Universities at the Crosstroads: Academic Freedom in a Changing World
The international conference took place in Tbilisi from 29 September to 01 October 2022.
It was organized by the Center for Independent Social Research and the Georgian American University with the support of Academics in Solidarity, Freie Universität Berlin and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Peace with around forty researchers who came together in the capital of Georgia to discuss the situation of academic freedom in post-soviet countries. It gathered speakers and participants from fifteen countries, mostly from Eastern Europe and Central Asia, to discuss pressing matters of academic freedom, especially against the background of the war in Ukraine.