Keynote

Shahrzad Mojab, University of Toronto and Mahdi Ganjavi, University of Torontowill give a talk on ‘Students Revolt, State Revenge: Universities and Authoritarianism in Iran’

Saardar Saadi, Wageningen University and director of the institute of social sciences at the University of Rojava will give a talk on ‘Reclaiming Knowledge, Rebuilding University: Higher Education against War and Repression in Autonomous Northeast Syria/Rojava’

Abstract

Coming soon

For 2025, the Policy Futures International Webinar Series will serve as a prelude to the release of the World Yearbook of Education 2026: The Changing Geopolitics of Higher Education and Research University futures reimagined . Edited by: Katja Brøgger, Hannah Moscovitz, Susan Robertson, and Jenny Lee. The 2025 keynotes have contributed to this volume which is scheduled for publication in late 2025/early 2026.