APPLY | Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights

The Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights at the FXB Center at Harvard University and ICPH at Birzeit University is excited to announce the call for applications for the 2024-2025 Health and Human Rights Fellowship.

This year, the Fellowship will support a scholar with significant work in international humanitarian law and/or human rights law with an intersection in health and human rights as it pertains to the health of Palestinians to produce innovative scholarship in their respective field. You can find more details and the application here.

APPLY | 2024-2025 PARC FELLOWSHIPS

  • 12th National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) competition for field-based research in Palestine in the humanities or research that embraces a humanistic approach and methods. EXTENDED DEADLINE: Applications are due January 29, 2024.
     

  • 25th annual U.S. research fellowship competition for research that will contribute to Palestinian studies. EXTENDED DEADLINE: Applications are due January 22, 2024.
     

  • 16th annual Faculty Development Seminar on Palestine competition for U.S. faculty members with a demonstrated interest in, but little travel experience to, Palestine. EXTENDED DEADLINE: Applications are due January 8, 2024.
     

  • 4th Media Development Seminar on Palestine competition for U.S. faculty members in the fields of journalism, film, communication, or media with a demonstrated interest in, but little travel experience to, Palestine. EXTENDED DEADLINE: Applications are due January 8, 2024.

For complete fellowship details, including eligibility and travel contingency plans, visit the PARC website. 

APPLY | 2024-2025 Postdoctoral or Associate Researcher Scholar of Modern Palestine and Israel 

The Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia (TRI) invites applications from outstanding postdoctoral or more senior researchers of modern Palestine and Israel for one or more positions as a Postdoctoral Research Associate or an Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University.

TRI will consider applicants from any discipline, though it is especially interested in applicants trained in the disciplines of history, politics, religious studies, literature and culture, and international relations. 

Review of applications will begin January 1, 2024.

For more info, including application details, click here. 

ATTEND | "Israeli Authorities' Crime of Apartheid Under International Law" w/ Omar Shakir on 11/20

"Israeli Authorities' Crime of Apartheid Under International Law"
Omar Shakir, Human Rights Watch
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 103

A conversation with Omar Shakir of Human Rights Watch. Omar presently serves as the Israel and Palestine Director at HRW, where he investigates human rights abuses in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. He has authored several major reports, including a 2021 report comprehensively documenting how Israeli authorities are committing the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution against millions of Palestinians. This discussion will elucidate this work and also touch on how it relates to the present situation in Israel-Palestine.

Please note that advanced registration is required and that in-person attendance is only available to CUID holders. Non-Law School affiliates must RSVP by 12pm (noon) on Monday, 20 Nov 2023 using this form. Non affiliates may attend via Zoom.

READ | “Zionism’s Political Unconscious” by Nadia Abu El-Haj

 
 

“Zionism’s Political Unconscious” by Nadia Abu El-Haj, Verso Blog, 17 November 2023. 


“From the river to the sea” is “threatening” and “intimidating” speech; it is a call to “genocidal violence.” Perhaps such interpretations are revealing in ways those voicing them cannot quite hear—or admit.

Nadia Abu El-Haj is Ann Whitney Olin Professor in Departments of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University, Co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies, and author of Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society (University of Chicago, 2001), and most recently Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post 9/11 America (Verso, 2022).

ATTEND | "War and Peace in Israel/Palestine" w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj + Naor H. Ben-Yehoyada on 11/20

At times of conflict—when the world is looking with dismay at the devastating loss of life, or when disagreement about politics, policy, or values is dividing communities near and far—many are looking for ways to create common ground on campus. How can we make room for agreement as well as disagreement, discovery, and learning? In this spirit—which is also the spirit of our Core Curriculum—Arts and Sciences is offering a series of Community Discussions that will bring together faculty with relevant expertise and students who want to join the conversation, welcoming diverging perspectives to build greater mutual understanding.

Community Discussion: War and Peace in Israel/Palestine
Monday, November 20, 2023, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Professors Nadia Abu El-Haj (Ann Whitney Olin Professor in the Departments of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University, Co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies) and Naor H. Ben-Yehoyada (Assistant Professor of Anthropology).

Registration is appreciated, but not required.
Coffee and refreshments will be available.

 

VENUE
Calder Lounge, Uris Hall
For a map, click here.

EVENT CONTACT INFORMATION
Arts & Sciences
jl3880@columbia.edu

 

ATTEND | “War and Peace in Israel/Palestine” w/ Rashid Khalidi and Yinon Cohen on 11/16

At times of conflict—when the world is looking with dismay at the devastating loss of life, or when disagreement about politics, policy, or values is dividing communities near and far—many are looking for ways to create common ground on campus. How can we make room for agreement as well as disagreement, discovery, and learning? In this spirit—which is also the spirit of our Core Curriculum—Arts and Sciences is offering a series of Community Discussions that will bring together faculty with relevant expertise and students who want to join the conversation, welcoming diverging perspectives to build greater mutual understanding.

November 16, 3:30-5pm, Calder Lounge, Uris Hall
“Community Discussion: War and Peace in Israel/Palestine” 

Professors Yinon Cohen (Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi Professor of Israel and Jewish Studies) and Rashid Khalidi (Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies)

 

VENUE
Calder Lounge, Uris Hall
For a map, click here.

EVENT CONTACT INFORMATION
Arts & Sciences
jl3880@columbia.edu