Event Recording Join the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School, and the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University for the discussion “Affirmative Action after SFFA: Is the US in Violation of International Human Rights Law?”    Date and Time: Thursday, September 28 at 12:30pm - 1:45pm ET Location:…

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The FXB Center for Health & Human Rights, the Centre for Medical Humanities at Oxford Brookes University, the Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights, and the Harvard Department of the History of Science are co-sponsoring a showing of the exhibition “We Are Not Alone”: Legacies of Eugenics at the student lounge on the second floor of the Kresge building. The exhibition is also part of a series of events commemorating the 75th…

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Webinar Recording Join this work in progress (WIP) seminar to hear from FXB Visiting Scholar, Sergio Aguayo, PhD, MA a scholar, human rights advocate, and political analyst from Mexico. Through his dedication and experience, Dr. Aguayo has spent his career shedding light on social justice issues, human rights violations, and democratic governance in Mexico. Dr. Aguayo is a professor and researcher for El Colegio de México, a visiting professor at Harvard…

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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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