Dilemma over academic meeting in Uganda

“The American Political Science Association is among several disciplinary associations that have found themselves caught in debates over whether to hold meetings in locales that some want to boycott. In 2008, the association rejected calls by some to move the 2012 meeting out of New Orleans because Louisiana has adopted a stringent ban on gay marriage. Now the association is facing yet more criticism from boycott organisers …” (more)

[Scott Jaschik, University World News, 21 February]

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