26 September, 2024

Greetings from the Coalition for Academic Freedom in the Americas (CAFA)!

We are delighted to invite you to our 2024 Conference, to be held in Washington D.C., United States, on 20-21 November 2024. It will convene advocates, researchers, teachers and students from across the hemisphere at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs. Registration is now open, and we would be honoured to have you join us, noting that participation will be hybrid.

Amid rapid democratic backsliding and increasing threats to educational communities, the Conference is a critical opportunity to gather and reflect on the state of academic freedom in the hemisphere, to interact and learn from each other, and to explore possible strategies and collective actions that will help advance the respect, protection and fulfilment of this human right.

The Conference is co-hosted by CAFA and the Pulte Institute for Global Development–part of the Keough School of Global Affairs–with support from the Central America Research Alliance (CARA), Scholars at Risk (SAR), the Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM), and the Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) at the University of Ottawa.

About CAFA

CAFA is a non-governmental and not-for-profit network, created in 2021, headquartered at the UDEM, Mexico. It was founded by SAR, UDEM, and HRREC. CAFA seeks the promotion, protection, and respect for academic freedom and university autonomy, with the goal of developing relevant human rights standards that serve to protect educational spaces, leverage human rights and strengthen democratic principles in the Americas.

For more information, click here | Access the agenda here