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U of A Scholars at Risk Lecture Features Former Kyrgyzstani Diplomat

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This year's Professor Dick Bennett Lecture, hosted by the Scholars at Risk Committee at the University of Arkansas, is going to be held virtually on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 5 p.m. Speaker Baktybek Bashimov, a one-time diplomat from Kyrgyzstan who had to flee his native country, says there are critical issues surrounding academic freedom that need to be addressed.

Kyle Kellams is KUAF's news director and host of Ozarks at Large.
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