Iveta Silova

@isilova.bsky.social

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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 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

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.

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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 5d

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

Reposted by Iveta Silova, David Darmofal

AAUP @aaup.org · 11d

“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

‘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.

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Reposted by Iveta Silova

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12d

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

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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 12d

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

Reposted by Joshua S. Weitz, Iveta Silova, David Darmofal

AAUP @aaup.org · 20d

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...

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Íris Santos @santosiris.bsky.social · Oct 6

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

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 ...

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Reposted by Iveta Silova

AAUP @aaup.org · Oct 3

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 👇

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AAUP @aaup.org · Oct 2

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.

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...

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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · Oct 2

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. 💚

Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · Sep 25

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...

A tide-drawn forest, branching across the sand like living memory — erased and redrawn with each returning wave. Solana Beach, 2025.

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Microbial Childhood Collaboratory / Zsuzsa Millei @microbial-child.bsky.social · Sep 17

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

Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · Sep 16

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: From Cold War Childhoods to the Anthropocene

Mnemo ZIN

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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · Sep 16

(An)archive: From Cold War Childhoods to the Anthropocene

Mnemo ZIN

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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · Sep 7

… Shonna White
Writing all night?

Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · Sep 4

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! ⏳

NORRAG @norrag.bsky.social · Sep 2

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

Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

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NORRAG @norrag.bsky.social · Sep 2

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · Sep 2

Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.

Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · Aug 20

The Big Ten Rises UpAgainst Trump newrepublic.com/article/1983... via @newrepublic.com

The Big Ten Rises Up Against Trump

The press acts as if “higher education” = Harvard. But a more interesting and gutsier stand is being taken in the heartland by schools that have a lot more going for them than football.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Aug 14

There’s a way to respond to Donald Trump’s brutal and reckless funding cutbacks—and it doesn’t need Washington’s permission, L. Rafael Reif argues.

How States Could Save University Science

There’s a way to respond to Trump’s brutal and reckless funding cutbacks—and it doesn’t need Washington’s permission.

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Reposted by Zsuzsa Millei

Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · Aug 14

🌀 What if education isn’t saving the world—
…but scripting its collapse?

In our new article, we ask whether global calls for “more education” are reinforcing the very systems driving ecological collapse.

📖 journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

#Unlearning #PlanetaryFutures #SDGs #MoreThanHuman