Iveta Silova
@isilova.bsky.social
Scholar of education and planetary futures 🌍 | Exploring the intersections of post-socialist, post-colonial, and decolonial thought | Looking for portals 🌿 | Professor at ASU | @isilova.bsky.social
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Iveta Silova
@isilova.bsky.social
· Apr 9
Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought giving in to government demands would save their independence
Before the Nazis, German universities were among the best in the world. Step by step, the universities gave up their independence until they were instruments of the state.
theconversation.com
Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought that complying with authoritarian demands would protect their independence. It didn’t—and history is warning us again.
🔗 theconversation.com/universities...
#AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #Authoritarianism #DEI #TheConversation
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#AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #Authoritarianism #DEI #TheConversation
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Chapter 1: Who Do I Remember For? Memory as Genre and Dark Pleasures of Trauma Witnessing
✍️ By Petar Odak
What shapes our memories—before they are even ours to tell? Read more 👇 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #ColdWar #Memory #Childhood @microbial-child.bsky.social
✍️ By Petar Odak
What shapes our memories—before they are even ours to tell? Read more 👇 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #ColdWar #Memory #Childhood @microbial-child.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Chapter 1: Who Do I Remember For? Memory as Genre and Dark Pleasures of Trauma Witnessing
✍️ By Petar Odak
What shapes our memories—before they are even ours to tell? Read more 👇 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #ColdWar #Memory #Childhood @microbial-child.bsky.social
✍️ By Petar Odak
What shapes our memories—before they are even ours to tell? Read more 👇 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #ColdWar #Memory #Childhood @microbial-child.bsky.social
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Thank you in advance for your help with the reviews and looking forward to working with you!
Thank you in advance for your help with the reviews and looking forward to working with you!
Book & Dissertation Awards Reviewer Application Form
Thank you for your interest in participating as an evaluator in the “CIES SIG Book & Dissertation Awards” . Evaluators play a vital role in recognizing outstanding scholarly contributions. Please com...
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November 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The SIG is currently looking for reviewers!! Please fill out the form below to participate as an evaluator in the Book & Dissertation Awards process: wordpress.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?...
Thank you in advance for your help with the reviews and looking forward to working with you!
Thank you in advance for your help with the reviews and looking forward to working with you!
🔥 Every crisis has its curriculum—and young people are refusing this one. What if the climate crisis is also an education crisis—and the lesson is to unlearn? #EducationFutures #Youth @norrag.bsky.social @arizonastateuni.bsky.social @carkar.bsky.social
www.norrageducation.org/when-educati...
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When Education Is the Problem: Lessons from Youth Climate Activism - NORRAG -
In this blogpost, which is part of NORRAG’s blog series “Provocations for education from youth climate activism,” Iveta Silova, Jeremy Rappleye and Hikaru Komatsu argue that the crisis we face is educ...
www.norrageducation.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
🔥 Every crisis has its curriculum—and young people are refusing this one. What if the climate crisis is also an education crisis—and the lesson is to unlearn? #EducationFutures #Youth @norrag.bsky.social @arizonastateuni.bsky.social @carkar.bsky.social
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www.norrageducation.org/when-educati...
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Introduction: The (An)archive
What if the stories that shape us were never meant to be archived? What if memory could unwrite borders, reorder time, and restore what was erased? (An)archive begins here—with fragments, refusals & futures that never arrived. doi.org/10.11647/obp...
What if the stories that shape us were never meant to be archived? What if memory could unwrite borders, reorder time, and restore what was erased? (An)archive begins here—with fragments, refusals & futures that never arrived. doi.org/10.11647/obp...
November 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Introduction: The (An)archive
What if the stories that shape us were never meant to be archived? What if memory could unwrite borders, reorder time, and restore what was erased? (An)archive begins here—with fragments, refusals & futures that never arrived. doi.org/10.11647/obp...
What if the stories that shape us were never meant to be archived? What if memory could unwrite borders, reorder time, and restore what was erased? (An)archive begins here—with fragments, refusals & futures that never arrived. doi.org/10.11647/obp...
Reposted by Iveta Silova
Tracking Key Lawsuits Against the Trump Administration
Higher education groups are suing the federal government at an exceptional scale to block executive orders, DEI guidance and other policy changes. Here’s the latest on the legal challenges. https://bit.ly/46VfIDV
#AcademicSky #EDUSky #HigherEd
Higher education groups are suing the federal government at an exceptional scale to block executive orders, DEI guidance and other policy changes. Here’s the latest on the legal challenges. https://bit.ly/46VfIDV
#AcademicSky #EDUSky #HigherEd
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Tracking Key Lawsuits Against the Trump Administration
Higher education groups are suing the federal government at an exceptional scale to block executive orders, DEI guidance and other policy changes. Here’s the latest on the legal challenges. https://bit.ly/46VfIDV
#AcademicSky #EDUSky #HigherEd
Higher education groups are suing the federal government at an exceptional scale to block executive orders, DEI guidance and other policy changes. Here’s the latest on the legal challenges. https://bit.ly/46VfIDV
#AcademicSky #EDUSky #HigherEd
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS begins.
What do we carry from childhood? What have we learned to forget? Starting next week, I’ll share weekly glimpses from the book "(An)archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War"
📘 Read free: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
#MemoryMondays #ColdWar #Memory
What do we carry from childhood? What have we learned to forget? Starting next week, I’ll share weekly glimpses from the book "(An)archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War"
📘 Read free: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
#MemoryMondays #ColdWar #Memory
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS begins.
What do we carry from childhood? What have we learned to forget? Starting next week, I’ll share weekly glimpses from the book "(An)archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War"
📘 Read free: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
#MemoryMondays #ColdWar #Memory
What do we carry from childhood? What have we learned to forget? Starting next week, I’ll share weekly glimpses from the book "(An)archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War"
📘 Read free: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
#MemoryMondays #ColdWar #Memory
The West’s aid model was always a mirage. It’s time for a realistic alternative. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/08/a...
The End of Development
The West’s aid model was always a mirage. It’s time for a realistic alternative.
foreignpolicy.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The West’s aid model was always a mirage. It’s time for a realistic alternative. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/08/a...
Reposted by Iveta Silova
“Trump’s compact is the greatest single incursion into the freedom & autonomy of higher education to ever happen in this country.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
#DefendHigherEd
#DefendHigherEd
‘Students Are Terrified’: How Trump’s Higher Education Compact Puts Queer Students at Risk
The heavy-handed document promises federal funding in exchange for ideological compliance. So far, it's unpopular.
rewirenewsgroup.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
“Trump’s compact is the greatest single incursion into the freedom & autonomy of higher education to ever happen in this country.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
#DefendHigherEd
#DefendHigherEd
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Wives, mothers, fighters, activists: the millennial women keeping Ukraine going
Wives, mothers, fighters, activists: the millennial women keeping Ukraine going
Born into an independent Ukraine, the lives of these young women changed for ever when Russia invaded their country, forcing them to shoulder huge burdens of responsibility
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Wives, mothers, fighters, activists: the millennial women keeping Ukraine going
The federal government is trying to extort universities through the so-called "Compact”. This is a time for courage, not capitulation. Sign this alumni petition now to tell your school to reject the "Compact" and stand up for campus freedom. alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/si...
SIGN THE ALUMNI PETITION: Tell your school to reject the federal government’s “Compact”
The federal government is trying to extort your school by coercing American universities into joining its so-called "Compact”. This is a time for courage, not capitulation. Sign this alumni petition n...
alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org
October 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The federal government is trying to extort universities through the so-called "Compact”. This is a time for courage, not capitulation. Sign this alumni petition now to tell your school to reject the "Compact" and stand up for campus freedom. alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/si...
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TONIGHT AT 7:30PM ET / 4:30 PM PT!
Join AAUP President Todd Wolfson & AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal for an update on universities MASS REFUSAL of Trump’s loyalty oath compact & how it violates the US Constitution.
Live on both IG & YouTube
Link: www.youtube.com/live/h-H-ETa...
Join AAUP President Todd Wolfson & AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal for an update on universities MASS REFUSAL of Trump’s loyalty oath compact & how it violates the US Constitution.
Live on both IG & YouTube
Link: www.youtube.com/live/h-H-ETa...
October 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
TONIGHT AT 7:30PM ET / 4:30 PM PT!
Join AAUP President Todd Wolfson & AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal for an update on universities MASS REFUSAL of Trump’s loyalty oath compact & how it violates the US Constitution.
Live on both IG & YouTube
Link: www.youtube.com/live/h-H-ETa...
Join AAUP President Todd Wolfson & AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal for an update on universities MASS REFUSAL of Trump’s loyalty oath compact & how it violates the US Constitution.
Live on both IG & YouTube
Link: www.youtube.com/live/h-H-ETa...
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“What made Hitler’s orders stick, Silova argued, ‘was the eagerness of many academic leaders to comply, justify and normalize the new order … Within a few years, German universities no longer served knowledge — they served power.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Insatiable
The president is trying to pick off institutions (and people) one by one.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
“What made Hitler’s orders stick, Silova argued, ‘was the eagerness of many academic leaders to comply, justify and normalize the new order … Within a few years, German universities no longer served knowledge — they served power.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...
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I am happy to share that a new open-access article by my colleague Iveta Silova (@isilova.bsky.social) and I is now published.
The article, titled "From Finland to the world: interrogating the global learning crisis" can be found here: tinyurl.com/yc6b9ps3
The article, titled "From Finland to the world: interrogating the global learning crisis" can be found here: tinyurl.com/yc6b9ps3
From Finland to the world: interrogating the global learning crisis
The ‘learning crisis’, often framed as an urgent challenge of educational access and quality, masks deeper structural and geopolitical inequities. This article critically examines the narrative of ...
www.tandfonline.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I am happy to share that a new open-access article by my colleague Iveta Silova (@isilova.bsky.social) and I is now published.
The article, titled "From Finland to the world: interrogating the global learning crisis" can be found here: tinyurl.com/yc6b9ps3
The article, titled "From Finland to the world: interrogating the global learning crisis" can be found here: tinyurl.com/yc6b9ps3
Reposted by Iveta Silova
AAUP President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump’s Loyalty Pledge for Colleges and Universities.
Now is the time to unite in defense of democracy and higher education!
Read full statement below 👇
@aft.org
@proftwolf.bsky.social
@rweingarten.bsky.social
Now is the time to unite in defense of democracy and higher education!
Read full statement below 👇
@aft.org
@proftwolf.bsky.social
@rweingarten.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
AAUP President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump’s Loyalty Pledge for Colleges and Universities.
Now is the time to unite in defense of democracy and higher education!
Read full statement below 👇
@aft.org
@proftwolf.bsky.social
@rweingarten.bsky.social
Now is the time to unite in defense of democracy and higher education!
Read full statement below 👇
@aft.org
@proftwolf.bsky.social
@rweingarten.bsky.social
Reposted by Iveta Silova
The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda.
This is corruption.
Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.
This is corruption.
Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.
Universities Must Reject Trump Admin 'Loyalty Oath' Compacts
The AAUP and AFT warn that the Trump administration’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities that court government favor in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological...
www.aaup.org
October 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda.
This is corruption.
Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.
This is corruption.
Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.
Reposted by Iveta Silova
Academia must take responsibility for its carbon footprint. Our research and scholarship should help heal the planet, not harm it. Join us in decarbonizing higher education and sign the manifesto and be part of the change! 🌍
Sign Here: educators-for-climate-action.com/researchers/
Sign Here: educators-for-climate-action.com/researchers/
Researchers
Join usManifesto for Decarbonizing Scholarship and ResearchWe are scholars committed to decarbonizing academia. We call on colleagues to reduce emissions, realign research priorities, and transform hi...
educators-for-climate-action.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Academia must take responsibility for its carbon footprint. Our research and scholarship should help heal the planet, not harm it. Join us in decarbonizing higher education and sign the manifesto and be part of the change! 🌍
Sign Here: educators-for-climate-action.com/researchers/
Sign Here: educators-for-climate-action.com/researchers/
Farewell, Jane Goodall 🌿 You reminded us that hope is a daily choice — to care, to connect, to keep planting seeds even in dark times. May your next great adventure be as extraordinary as the light she left behind. 💚
October 2, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Farewell, Jane Goodall 🌿 You reminded us that hope is a daily choice — to care, to connect, to keep planting seeds even in dark times. May your next great adventure be as extraordinary as the light she left behind. 💚
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Each tide sketches a forest, each wave erases it — what the sea remembers may include us, too. 🌊 Read more in "A Tree in a Wave, a Wave in a Tree: What the Tide Remembers" #Ecomemory #PlanetaryFutures www.linkedin.com/pulse/tree-w...
September 25, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Each tide sketches a forest, each wave erases it — what the sea remembers may include us, too. 🌊 Read more in "A Tree in a Wave, a Wave in a Tree: What the Tide Remembers" #Ecomemory #PlanetaryFutures www.linkedin.com/pulse/tree-w...
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Childhood memories as research data! @phoebegilpin.bsky.social @katepahl.bsky.social @psayoungpol.bsky.social @memorystudies.bsky.social @mervikaukko.bsky.social @karenpashby.bsky.social @eecera.bsky.social @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social @clpn.bsky.social @fohn.bsky.social @coldwarpod.bsky.social
What can Cold War childhood memories teach us about living in the Anthropocene and its uncertain futures? 🌍✨
(An)Archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War by Mnemo ZIN is out now! Join the online launch Oct 1st at 8am MST! RSVP & Register 👇
tinyurl.com/2ju6syz3 @microbial-child.bsky.social
(An)Archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War by Mnemo ZIN is out now! Join the online launch Oct 1st at 8am MST! RSVP & Register 👇
tinyurl.com/2ju6syz3 @microbial-child.bsky.social
(An)archive: From Cold War Childhoods to the Anthropocene
Mnemo ZIN
open.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:32 AM
What can Cold War childhood memories teach us about living in the Anthropocene and its uncertain futures? 🌍✨
(An)Archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War by Mnemo ZIN is out now! Join the online launch Oct 1st at 8am MST! RSVP & Register 👇
tinyurl.com/2ju6syz3 @microbial-child.bsky.social
(An)Archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War by Mnemo ZIN is out now! Join the online launch Oct 1st at 8am MST! RSVP & Register 👇
tinyurl.com/2ju6syz3 @microbial-child.bsky.social
(An)archive: From Cold War Childhoods to the Anthropocene
Mnemo ZIN
open.substack.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM
What can Cold War childhood memories teach us about living in the Anthropocene and its uncertain futures? 🌍✨
(An)Archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War by Mnemo ZIN is out now! Join the online launch Oct 1st at 8am MST! RSVP & Register 👇
tinyurl.com/2ju6syz3 @microbial-child.bsky.social
(An)Archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War by Mnemo ZIN is out now! Join the online launch Oct 1st at 8am MST! RSVP & Register 👇
tinyurl.com/2ju6syz3 @microbial-child.bsky.social
Excited for this book talk with Gita Steiner-Khamsi on Time in Education Policy Transfer. How do different temporalities shape global school reform—past, present, and future? A timely and important conversation. Join us! ⏳
Discover how time shapes global school reforms—from its historical roots to its contemporary tempo.
Join us for a hybrid book talk
🗓️ 15 Sept 2025 | 16:00 CEST / 10:00 EST
🌍 Online & Teachers College, NY
👉 Register now buff.ly/bFG4QZM
#edusky @isilova.bsky.social @teacherscollege.bsky.social
Join us for a hybrid book talk
🗓️ 15 Sept 2025 | 16:00 CEST / 10:00 EST
🌍 Online & Teachers College, NY
👉 Register now buff.ly/bFG4QZM
#edusky @isilova.bsky.social @teacherscollege.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Excited for this book talk with Gita Steiner-Khamsi on Time in Education Policy Transfer. How do different temporalities shape global school reform—past, present, and future? A timely and important conversation. Join us! ⏳
Authoritarianism doesn’t just thrive on control. It thrives on silence. My essay in Comparative Education Review reflects on three forgotten books - The Abuse of Learning, Hitler’s Professors, The Making of Nazis - and what they teach us now. 🔗https://lnkd.in/gJgq-xrH
#CIES @gesigcies.bsky.social
#CIES @gesigcies.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Authoritarianism doesn’t just thrive on control. It thrives on silence. My essay in Comparative Education Review reflects on three forgotten books - The Abuse of Learning, Hitler’s Professors, The Making of Nazis - and what they teach us now. 🔗https://lnkd.in/gJgq-xrH
#CIES @gesigcies.bsky.social
#CIES @gesigcies.bsky.social
Reposted by Iveta Silova
Discover how time shapes global school reforms—from its historical roots to its contemporary tempo.
Join us for a hybrid book talk
🗓️ 15 Sept 2025 | 16:00 CEST / 10:00 EST
🌍 Online & Teachers College, NY
👉 Register now buff.ly/bFG4QZM
#edusky @isilova.bsky.social @teacherscollege.bsky.social
Join us for a hybrid book talk
🗓️ 15 Sept 2025 | 16:00 CEST / 10:00 EST
🌍 Online & Teachers College, NY
👉 Register now buff.ly/bFG4QZM
#edusky @isilova.bsky.social @teacherscollege.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Discover how time shapes global school reforms—from its historical roots to its contemporary tempo.
Join us for a hybrid book talk
🗓️ 15 Sept 2025 | 16:00 CEST / 10:00 EST
🌍 Online & Teachers College, NY
👉 Register now buff.ly/bFG4QZM
#edusky @isilova.bsky.social @teacherscollege.bsky.social
Join us for a hybrid book talk
🗓️ 15 Sept 2025 | 16:00 CEST / 10:00 EST
🌍 Online & Teachers College, NY
👉 Register now buff.ly/bFG4QZM
#edusky @isilova.bsky.social @teacherscollege.bsky.social
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Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
September 2, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.