{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Finding solidarity \u201cbeyond the border\u201d in Southeast Asia \u2013 Khoo Ying Hooi on how building regional coalitions can help protect scholars & academic freedom","description":"Free to Think speaks with Dr. Khoo Ying Hooi, an Associate Professor at the University of Malaya and 2022-23 Mellon\/SAR Academic Freedom Fellow, on academic freedom and coalition building in Southeast Asia.  Ying Hooi discusses her research and shares how building an academic freedom coalition across Southeast Asia \u2013 a region that spans 11 countries and represents a range of universities \u2013 can help academics and higher education institutions support one another. She emphasizes that academic freedom matters for all, and identifies the need for increased dialogue on related issues, particularly in states most at risk of repression. \u201cIt is really important that we embrace and understand why academic freedom is important for the future of countries,\u201d she says. \u201cWithout being able to talk freely and write freely and express ourselves freely and learn freely, I think there will be a major obstacle for us to advance as a country.\u201d ","author_name":"Free to Think Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/scholarsatrisk.org\/podcast","html":"