Join us for a discussion on the core pedagogical initiatives of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and ways you can get involved. Learn more about the following: This three-week intensive, interdisciplinary course on migration and refugee studies is designed to offer participants both conceptual and practical engagement with key issues related to contemporary forced migration. The course schedule includes lectures, seminars, interactive class sessions and fieldwork. It…

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Event Recording Date and Time: Tuesday, October 24 at 1:00pm - 1:30pm ET Location: Hybrid - please register for free in advance to submit questions. Presented jointly by the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and the Center for Health Communication  It isn’t enough to write about race and health separately: to tell the whole story, journalists must explore the many complex ways in which race, racism, and health intersect. In…

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Event Recording Date and Time: Thursday, November 2 at 11:30am – 1:00pm EDT | 5:30pm – 7:00pm EET Location: Zoom – registration required Join the FXB Center Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights for a conversation with health and human rights experts to discuss the ongoing attacks on healthcare in Gaza, the West Bank, and the United States. This event is co-sponsored by the Religion, Conflict and Peace Initiative at…

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Event Recording Join us for a conversation between the Palestine Program's inaugural fellow, Dr. Sawsan Abdulrahim, and Dr. Anne Irfan to discuss her recent book Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System. The book traces the history and politics of the specialized UN body, the Relief and Works Agency, that was established to provide quasi-state services to Palestinian refugees including education and healthcare. Dr. Irfan shows how Palestinian…

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Event Recording Read a workshop summary: Researchers from Global South Probe Climate Adaptation Strategies Date and Time: Tuesday, November 14 at 5:30pm - 7:00pm ET Location: In person at Tsai Auditorium S010, CGIS South (Concourse), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Join the keynote event of the workshop on ‘Adapting to Climate Change in South Asia and West Africa’ organized by the Harvard Climate Research Clusters on the Gulf of Guinea…

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Date and Time: Thursday, November 30, 2023 at 5:00pm to 6:30pm ET Location: In-person at the Allison Dining Room, Harvard Kennedy School (Taubman Building (5th Floor), 79 John F. Kennedy St, Cambridge, MA 02138) Focusing on the themes covered in FXB Visiting Scientist Cécile Aptel's new book, Atrocity Crimes, Children and International Criminal Courts, this talk will center on the challenges international criminal courts face when handling atrocity crimes involving children.…

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Event Recording Date and Time: Monday, December 11 at 11:00am EST | 6:00pm EET | 4:00pm GMT Location: Zoom – registration required Join the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights, a partnership program between the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights and the Institute of Community and Public Health at Birzeit University for a webinar with Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah in conversation with Dr. Omar Dewachi, Associate Professor of Anthropology at…

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Date: Saturday, February 3, 2024 Time: 11:00am - 4:30pm ET Location: In-person at the Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics (please enter from the Wexner Courtyard entrance at 19 Eliot St.) Public Interested is a campus-wide conference organized by the Center for Public Service and Engaged Scholarship and collaboratively planned by the Harvard Alumni Association, Advanced Leadership Initiative, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard Global Health Institute, Harvard Innovation Labs, Institute of Politics,…

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Webinar Recording Date and Time: Wednesday, February 7 at 11:00am -12:30pm EST | 6:00pm - 7:30pm EEST Location: Zoom – registration required On January 11, 2024, the South African legal team argued at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that Israel, in action and intent, breached the 1948 Genocide Convention by perpetrating the following acts of genocide in Gaza: mass killings of Palestinians; bodily and mental harm; forced displacement and food blockade;…

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Part of a two-day engagement with Jack Ferver co-presented by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the Office for the Arts at Harvard Dance Program, in partnership with Theater, Dance & Media. For information and to register for the movement workshop on February 16 visit: ofa.fas.harvard.edu/dance Date and Time: Thursday, February 15, 2024, 5:00pm - 6:30pm EST Location: Malkin Penthouse, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 John F.…

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