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Free to Think Podcast

Free to Think features conversation with interesting, thoughtful, and inspiring individuals whose re

Episodes

Total: 39

Free to Think speaks with three university students who express the profound impact of joining the S

Free to Think speaks with academic, policy analyst and human rights activist Mubashar Hasan. He desc

Free to Think speaks with Katrin Kinzelbach and Lars Lott, researchers behind the Academic Freedom I

Free to Think speaks with Achiro P. Olwoch, an award-winning writer, playwright, and filmmaker from

In February 2022, Artem Nazarko was in Odesa, Ukraine with his family, coming to terms with the Russ

Emma Hartley and Jonathan Gelfond, undergraduates at UC Santa Barbara in California, weren’t sure if

Free to Think speaks with Shai Reshef, President of the University of the People,  the first non-pro

Free to Think speaks with political scientist Sol Iglesias about "violence for social control" and t

In Herat, Afghanistan, Zahra Hakimi was a faculty member, midwife, family planning trainer, and wome

Venezuelan higher education is in crisis. After decades of political attacks on universities, many p

What is ‘academic activism?’ What responsibility, if any, do scholars have for engaging outside of a

In 1997, Henry Reese and his wife, Diane Samuels, were at a public talk by writer Salman Rushdie, an

Free to Think talks with Roya Hakakian, a writer and founding member of the Iran Human Rights Docume

Free to Think talks with Yulia Bezvershenko, a visiting scholar at Stanford University, and Liz Shch

Free to Think talks with Hadi Ghaemi, founding Executive Director of the Center for Human Rights in

Free to Think talks with Brian Mello, a professor of political science at Muhlenberg College in Alle

Free to Think talks with Colin Harvey, a Professor of Human Rights Law and former Head of the School

Free to Think talks with Dr. Aziz Mohibbi, an environmental engineer and former chancellor of Afghan

Free to Think talks with Christiane Schmeken, Director of the Strategy Department of the German Acad