Date and Time: Tuesday, February 27, 2024 | 1:00pm - 2:30pm EST Format: Hybrid - registration required Zoom or in-person at the Jonathan M. Mann Conference Room, FXB Building, 7th Floor, 651 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA. In-person attendance is open to HUID-holders only. Lunch will be provided to in-person attendees. About the book: Thanks to our increasingly connected world, we can now witness the worst manifestations of war in ways we…

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Submission Deadline: February 29, 2024 Conference Dates: May 16-17, 2024 Conference Venue: Central European University, Vienna and online The Romani Studies Program at Central European University, in cooperation with the Yehuda Elkana Center for Teaching, Learning, and Higher Education Research; the Roma Program at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University; and the Critical Romani Studies Department at Södertörn University are pleased to invite scholars to submit abstract…

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Date and Time: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 | 6:00pm EST Location: In-person at Sever Hall, Room 113, 25, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA, 02138 About the Event This event will bring together formerly incarcerated artists and writers to explore the relationship between making art and creating change, both within prisons and outside the walls. The panel will feature Eric Christo Martinez, Russell Craig, and Morgan Godvin, and will be moderated by Elizabeth…

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Date and Time: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 | 11:00am – 12:30pm EST | 6:00pm - 7:30pm EET Location: Zoom – Registration required In commemoration of International Women’s Day, the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights invites you to join a webinar dedicated to the Palestinian women in Gaza. The webinar will bring together three feminist scholar-activists in conversation about Gaza, Palestinian women’s health, and resistance to genocide. This webinar…

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Event Recording Date and Time: Monday, March 25 at 1:00pm – 1:30pm ET Location: Hybrid – please register for free in advance to submit questions. Presented jointly by the The Studio at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. This event brings together City Councilor At-Large Julia Mejia, who pressed for a reparations task force in Boston, and public health scholar…

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Date and Time: Thursday, April 4, 2024 at 4:00pm -5:30pm EDT. Reception to follow. Location: Salata Institute Conference Room 3.5, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School (79 John F. Kennedy Street Cambridge, MA 02138) and online. Join the Salata Institute's Climate Action Accelerator, Harvard Chan C-CHANGE, and the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights for a conversation with Cassie Flynn, Global Director of Climate Change at the United Nations Development…

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Watch the YouTube livestream below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km9Vw4fUqRY Date and Time: Friday, April 5, 2024 at 1:00pm - 6:30pm EDT. Reception to follow at 6:30pm. Location: 110 Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA 02138 (Harvard University) and online Conference Overview: In partnership with the Romani Studies Program at Central European University, the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights, the Center on Forced Displacement at Boston University, the Center for Human…

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Date and Time: Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT Location: Zoom - registration required Join us for a conversation with Dr. Jennifer Leaning, senior fellow at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, on the effect and impact of war and conflict on children across…

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Date and Time: Tuesday, April 16 | 1:00pm to 2:30pm EDT Location: Kresge 201 and Zoom All HSPH staff, faculty, and students are invited to join the SBS Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Committee in collaboration with the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights on Tuesday, April 16 from 1 PM to 2:30 PM in Kresge 201 or via Zoom for a hybrid screening of the documentary Conscience Point. Participants…

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Date and Time: Thursday, April 18 (part 1) and Friday, April 19 (part 2) | 3:00-5:15 p.m. EDT Location: Jonathan M. Mann Conference Room (FXB Building, 7th Floor). Pizza and beverages will be served. Join us for a screening of Steve McQueen’s Occupied City, a documentary informed by Bianca Stigter’s book Atlas of an Occupied City (Amsterdam 1940-1945). The past collides with the present in this excavation of the Nazi…

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