Dear GEP-Ed colleagues, For those of you that are ISA members thanks for discussing how best our professional associations can respond to the US Executive Order banning or suspending refugees and others. The ISA has released its statement today as per below. As the ESS chair I currently sit on the Governing Council and voted for this statement. We stand by our colleagues and if anyone is affected by this with regard to attending Baltimore please contact the Academic Freedom Committee. It took a little longer to respond than some other professional associations as it was a democratic process with people in different timezones (it went through both the Academic Freedom committee and the Governing Council with majority voting). ISA is still responding to the logistics of teleconferencing. We will be vigorously debating the prospect of holding the ISA outside the US in the future at the Governing Council meeting in Baltimore. Although the ESS business meeting is held at the end of the conference do feel free to contact me to make your voice heard in the prelude to the Governing Council meeting (we meet on the day before the conference begins).
Check out both the comments from the Executive Director of the ISA Mark Boyer https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/01/31/protest-trump-entry-ban-some-scholars-are-boycotting-us-based-conferences as well as the incoming President for 2017 on the ISA Facebook page. Best, Susan Associate Professor Susan Park The University of Sydney Dept of Government and International Relations Merewether Building H04, Sydney, NSW 2006 t: 61 2 9351 6593 f: 61 2 9351 3624 e: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> tw: Spark_syd New Book: http://www.amazon.com/Governance-Development-Practices-Multilateral-Political/dp/1138827126 Free Article in Global Environmental Politics: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/glep/16/2 From: The International Studies Association [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 1 February 2017 8:57 AM To: Susan Park Subject: Statement Regarding Executive Order on Travel ban Dear ISA members, On Friday, January 27, 2017, President Donald Trump signed an executive order which bans entry of all refugees to the United States for 120 days, and which suspends entry for refugees, immigrants, dual nationals, and US permanent residents from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days, or longer. As a scholarly organization, ISA has a professional obligation to promote and protect the values of academic freedom. As such, the ISA strongly condemns any action by any government which prevents the free movement of scholars engaged in research on international affairs, or any other scholarly discipline. Indeed, the charter of the Academic Freedom Committee of the ISA includes the following language: "The Committee will document such violations as: government revocation of academic degrees; demotion or dismissal; denial of a petition to emigrate, travel abroad or return to one's country of origin; and arrest, arbitrary detention, disappearance, and extrajudicial killing." This order, which has already been challenged in Federal Courts, is an infringement upon the academic freedom of scholars from those countries who wish to travel to the United States to conduct research, collaborate with colleagues, and engage in conferences and conventions. It will cause serious disruption in the lives of scholars and students who, prior to the issuing of the order, had already undergone the complex and time-consuming process for obtaining the necessarypapers for travel. It may also violate the constitutional rights of scholars and students who are in lawful permanent resident status. Finally, it constitutes a serious disruption of the business of our upcoming 2017 Annual Convention, in Baltimore. For ISA members attending the ISA Convention in Baltimore, and for concerned members of the general public, we encourage you to attend the two roundtables (room assignment pending) dedicated to the topic of academic freedom: 1. WB39: Academic Freedom, Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism (Wednesday, 10:30AM) 2. SC39: Academic Freedom and Professional Associations (Saturday, 1:45PM) Scholars negatively affected by this executive order are strongly encouraged to contact the committee through its dedicated email address (academic- [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>). Sincerely, T.V. Paul, ISA President Ashley Leeds, ISA President-Elect Paul Diehl, ISA Past-President Mark A. Boyer, ISA Executive Director Anthony Lang, Chair, ISA Academic Freedom Committee NOTE: This statement was proposed through the Academic Freedom Committee process and adopted by the ISA Executive Committee using its regular decision-making rules for academic freedom issues. This process took several days to unfold. You are receiving this email because you are either a Member of ISA or registered to attend the 2017 Annual Convention in Baltimore. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
