Universities as sites of refuge, struggle and action

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Universities as sites of refuge, struggle and action

Contributions examining how universities can both counteract and reproduce broader inequalities and harms, and how university classrooms can serve as spaces of sanctuary, community engagement, and meaningful action, prompting questions about what kinds of hope are possible within institutions marked by contradiction.

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Three images in a row, one is a room with a staircase and paintings on the wall, one is a leafy courtyard, one is a screengrab of a campus map.
alessandra wollaston

Drawings created during a classroom activity illustrating university students’ experiences of academic pressure, emotional stress, personal challenges and other difficulties encountered in university life.
Iresha Madushani Samarasinghe

Part of a photographic timeline, The Cost of Continuity: University Teaching in Gaza, documenting destruction, improvised teaching and educational hope at Al-Aqsa University. Image 1 of four.Part of a photographic timeline, The Cost of Continuity: University Teaching in Gaza, documenting destruction, improvised teaching and educational hope at Al-Aqsa University. Image 2 of four.Part of a photographic timeline, The Cost of Continuity: University Teaching in Gaza, documenting destruction, improvised teaching and educational hope at Al-Aqsa University. Image 3 of four.Part of a photographic timeline, The Cost of Continuity: University Teaching in Gaza, documenting destruction, improvised teaching and educational hope at Al-Aqsa University. Image 4 of four.
Ahmed Kamal Junina

A university dining hall decorated for the graduation of culinary services workers completing a year-long intensive English-language tutoring programme.
Amanda Flaim

Triptych showing a coiled hammerhead worm, a cicada emerging from its exoskeleton, and a petri dish containing microbial colonies.
Andrea Kunze

Photographs of a teacher with students and children from an underserved tribal community, illustrating education's potential to transform lives.
ARPANA

A man leaning on a shovel beside a newly planted tree.
Daniel Ahlquist

Peer teaching and three-dimensional visualisation used to explain complex warp-knitting principles.
ACSI Mumthas

An image reflecting inclusion in higher education through collective struggle, collaboration and equitable pedagogical growth.
Ali Saha

An image reflecting feminist pedagogical hope and the promise of higher education for women in rural northern India.
Ashish Kumar

Colourful pixel-art-themed Bridge of Hearts conversation cards with questions about culture, belonging, curiosity and empathy.
Umawathy Techanamurthy and Ummu Hani Yusof

A study desk with laptop, books and notes, with a small green leaf emerging from the darkness.
Ebru Kızıltaş

Nighttime collage of student projections on McGill University's Redpath Museum, calling attention to accessibility and proposing an elevator route.
Ipek Türeli

A welcoming office corner with a floral armchair, botanical rug, plants, toadstool footstool and colourful whiteboard magnets.
Kara Dymond

Fourteen people sitting, standing and reclining together in an outdoor courtyard, smiling toward the camera.
Kris De Welde

Knitting needles and multicoloured wool arranged as a knitting set.
Laura Péaud

Colourful leaves and nail clippers in the foreground, juxtaposed with a black-and-white image of a prison housing unit.
Lisa B. Fiore

Classroom 302 at Alzahra University in Tehran, with crossed-out slogans in Persian, French and English including Woman, Life, Freedom.
Mona Hoorvash and anonymous students at Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract pastel artwork with a dark geometric grid, flowing pink, orange, yellow and green forms, and scattered star-like shapes.
Rachel Barber

Illustration of a crumbling tower of books amid lightning, fire and torn pages, with university buildings and protest banners below.
Wes King

Faith Hope Love and the Greatest, contributed by Kimberly K. Williams.
Kimberly K. Williams

Hope in Precarity, an image contributed by Kym Davis.
Kym Davis

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