Human rights session

130th Statistical Mechanics Meeting, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA

December 15, 2025

Slides

Jauslin_HR_SMM130_2026.pdf

Sources and further reading

Scholar at Risk Newsletters

• Academic Freedom Media Review: US Bulletin: https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/academic-freedom-media-review-us-bulletin/
• Academic Freedom Media Review: https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/academic-freedom-media-review/

Lists of threatened scholars seeking placement

• Scholar Rescue Fund: http://scholarrescuefund.org/hosts/scholars-seeking-placement.
• Scholars at Risk: https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/actions/host-a-scholar/.

Local organizations that place endangered scholars

• Council for At-Risk Academics (United Kingdom).
• Philip Schwartz initiative of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany).
• PAUSE (France).

General reports and tools

• Free to Think 2025 (Scholars at Risk, Academic Freedom Monitoring Project).
• V-Dem: a tool to analyse the Academic Freedom Index and other measures of democracy. See, in particular their Graphing Tool in which one can select the 'Academic Freedom Index' dataset.

Organizations

• Have your institution join the Scholars at Risk network: https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/join/. You can check if your institution is a member by reading the Insitutional Membership Packet.
• Have your institution join the Scholar Rescue Fund: https://www.scholarrescuefund.org/partner-with-us/.
• Committee of Concerned Scientists.