APPLY | Palestine Health and Human Rights Post-Doctoral Fellowship

The Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights (PPHHR) at the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and the Institute of Community and Public Health at Birzeit University is thrilled to announce its inaugural post- doctoral fellowship for 2023-2024.

Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights Overview
The Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights is an academic hub engaging in a broadly collaborative justice- and rights-based approach to foster Palestinian health through health research, education, and multidisciplinary community and academic engagement. Addressing the structural drivers of health inequities for Palestinians requires a multidisciplinary approach across a myriad of fields including health, human rights, international law, economics, politics, and history. The Palestine Program’s cross-disciplinary engagement seeks to produce scholarship and programming aimed at elucidating and addressing the structural determinants of health for Palestinians in the occupied territory, Israel, refugees, and the diaspora. Further information about the PPHHR can be found on the program’s website.

Health and Human Rights Fellowship
The PPHHR seeks a fellow whose work centers Palestinian health within a larger socio-political context. The fellowship will support a scholar working in the fields of medicine, public health, social sciences, and/or human rights law as it pertains to the health of Palestinians to produce innovative scholarship in their respective fields. The fellow will be responsible for contributing to the advancement of the Program’s mission of knowledge production, education, and community engagement in Palestinian health and human rights.

The Fellowship will be a one calendar year appointment with a flexible start date between March and September 2023. Fellows are required to spend the majority of the fellowship based in Boston at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights but may choose to begin the fellowship internationally and may travel as required for scholarly endeavors. We encourage Palestinians and citizens of all nationalities to apply. Full application details here.

APPLY | MESA Travel Grants

MESA Expands and Increases Travel Grants

MESA is pleased to announce increased financial support for students and others for whom cost concerns are a major factor in attending the MESA Annual Meeting. MESA is therefore doubling the award amount for graduate students attending the MESA 2022 conference in Denver.

The MESA Board of Directors and Secretariat are also expanding the Travel Grant Program to include contingent faculty as well as un/underemployed members, plus undergraduate students attending the CUMES workshop.

MESA first began offering $250 travel grants to graduate students in 2005, and will continue to offer those grants, now at an increased amount of $500.

The travel grants for all categories (contingent/precariously employed as well as undergraduate and graduate students) will be $500 in 2022.

Applications are due October 7, 2022.

ATTEND | Prospects for Development in Palestine, Symposium on 12 Sept 2022

Palestine Studies International Symposium: Prospects for Development in Palestine 2022

The symposium is an initiative sponsored by the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS), with support from the most prominent Palestine and Arab Studies research centers in universities from around the globe, to create a virtual space to come together to reflect, discuss, and contemplate on the results of new research on major Palestinian economic, social and political developments.

The purpose is to encourage candid and constructive, scholarly dialogue during a difficult stage in the Palestinian development process and in the history of the Palestinian people’s liberation movement from injustice. While these international centres of excellence educate, train and nurture scholarship in a range of disciplines pertinent to Palestinian development, MAS deploys the skills and expertise of researchers and academics in its applied policy research on the ground in Palestine.

The Symposium allows our community to meet and compare notes between theory and praxis. MAS would be happy to see this develop as an annual exercise, to examine other work of special importance going forward.

The hybrid Symposium will take place on Monday, Sep 12, 2022, 14:00 -17:15 Jerusalem time (07:00 - 08:15 EST).

It is co-sponsored by the European Centre for Palestine Studies, University of Exeter, UK, the Centre for Palestine Studies, SOAS, University of London, UK, the Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University, USA, the Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, USA and the Arab Center for Policy Research, Qatar.

READ | Michael Harris "On scientists and solidarity with Palestine"

Michael Harris frames an interview with Steven and Hilary Rose in Science for the People as a valuable reminder of the central role scientists played in setting the stage for international support of the Palestinian-led BDS campaign.

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Michael Harris is a mathematics professor at Columbia University. He was involved with SftP in the 1980s as an organizer of the Science for Nicaragua program. He taught in Paris for more than twenty years at Université Paris-Diderot; before that he taught at Brandeis University. He has also held visiting appointments at the Steklov Mathematical Institute in Moscow, Bethlehem University in Palestine, and the Institut des Hautes-Études Scientifiques in France, among other places. In France he was a founding member of AURDIP (Association des universitaires pour le respect du droit international en Palestine). His blog is mathematicswithoutapologies.wordpress.com.