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Iveta Silova
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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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Íris Santos @santosiris.bsky.social · 2d
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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AAUP @aaup.org · 4d
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 · 5d
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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ed4planetfutures.bsky.social @ed4planetfutures.bsky.social · Mar 19
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/
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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...
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 6d
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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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 12d
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 13d
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 · 21d
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
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 21d
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
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 21d
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
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · Sep 7
… Shonna White
Writing all night?
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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! ⏳
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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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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
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · Aug 10
Thanks. In the spirit of reciprocity and mutual learning, I’d suggest The Road to Terror (Getty & Naumov) and The Whisperers (Figes)—both offer valuable perspectives on repression, dissent, and life under Stalinism. Worth reading alongside Losurdo.
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · Aug 10
We clearly disagree—but denying Stalin’s repression or treating criticism as “fascist revisionism” doesn’t make history go away. I’m stepping out of this thread.
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · Aug 10
The pact didn’t just buy time—it enabled the invasion and partition of Poland and let the Nazis roll into Western Europe without fear of a second front. Acknowledging that isn’t “revisionism.” It’s part of understanding how authoritarian regimes operate pragmatically, not just ideologically.
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · Aug 10
Losurdo challenges Cold War myths, but acknowledging Stalin’s purges, gulags, and Trotsky’s murder isn’t “fascist revisionism”—it’s history. The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact shows the USSR aligned with fascism when it suited power. Authoritarian regimes always crush dissent—starting with intellectuals.
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · Aug 10
I’m not equating ideologies. I’m examining how institutions collapse under authoritarian pressure—from Nazi control to Stalin’s Great Purge, which saw 700,000–1.2 million executions and mass Gulag imprisonment. That’s not revisionism, it’s history.
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · Aug 10
It’s possible to oppose fascism and still take seriously the harms of Stalinist repression—especially in education.
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · Aug 10
Stalin defeated Hitler, but not fascism’s logic—he replaced it with repression of his own: gulags, purges, censorship. The article compares how universities surrendered under authoritarian pressure, not the regimes themselves. The lesson isn’t who was better or worse—but how institutions collapse.
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · Aug 10
Equating with Stalinism - there’s a big difference.
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