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European universities call for immediate rethinking of Trump’s executive order
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World Science Café (ZAK in co-operation with IScO, funded within the Philipp Schwartz Initiative)
- Lecture series featuring at-risk academics along with other scholars on topics related to academic freedom, refugees, working in exile presented by the The Centre for Cultural and General Studies (ZAK ) in co-operation with the International Scholars and Welcome Office (IScO) funded within the Philipp Schwartz Initiative.
- Venue: Foyer of the Presidential Building (Adolf Würth Building, bldg. 11.30), Ehrenhof, Engelbert-Arnold-Str. 2, KIT Campus South
- upcoming Programs:
  - Wednesday, 15 February 2017 , 6 pm - On Refugee Lives, or A Note on Human Condition
    - Prof. Dr. Hande Birkalan-Gedik (Turkey), Institute of Sociology
      Institute of Sociology, Goethe-University Frankfurt
The first Workshop of the German SAR Section “aiming at facilitating the exchange of expertise and best practices amongst institutions in Germany” will be held on 27^th -28^th . April 2017 in Berlin.

World Science Café
- Opening Lecture: Foreign Involvement in the Syrian Conflict: Status Quo and Prospects
  - Wednesday, 30 November 2016 , 6 pm - Prof. Dr. Hussein Almohamad (Syria), Anthropogeography, Institute of Geography, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen
  - Watch it on Youtube
  - Event impression
- Syrian Cultural Heritage during the Crisis
  - Wednesday, 6 pm 01 February 2017 , Prof. Dr. Ammar Abdulrahman (Syria), Archeology, Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies (IANES), Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
- In cooperation with the German Commission for UNESCO.
Presentations about Philipp Schwartz Initiative and Scholars at Risk at
- 12 th Humboldt-Tag at KIT 27th Oktober 2016
- 9. Annual Meeting of the German Society of Humboldtians 28th -29th October 2016, at KIT

Impressions of the 12th Humboldt-Tag on 27th Okt. 2016