Standing for Freedom is a photography exhibit that features portraits of scholars in exile from around the world.

Created by Pascale Laborier and Pierre-Jerôme Adjedj, the exhibit highlights the work of the French organization PAUSE, which enables scientists in exile to carry out their work in French higher education and research institutions. Its installation at MIT will be the first showing in the United States.

The exhibit coincides with the launch of the MIT Global At-Risk Scholars Fellowship Program (GMAF). The GMAF pilot program is a semester-long, residential fellowship at MIT that launched in February 2024 and is hosting Ukrainian scholars for the next two years. Read about it in MIT News here.

Co-sponsors: MIT Center for International Studies, Global MIT, and PAUSE

A full list of partners is available here.