CPS opened our Fall 2022 public programming with an insightful and hilarious talk by Suad Amiry about her new novel, Mother of Strangers (Random House, 2022).
We look forward to seeing you in-person at our events this semester!
READ | CPS BIANNUAL REPORT
The Center is thrilled to share our Biannual Report 2020-2022, which celebrates our work over the last two years. Revisit our programming and read updates from members of our community.
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.
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.
CONGRATS | Nate George Appointed Lecturer at SOAS
CPS congratulates Nate George on his appointment as Lecturer in Politics of the Middle East, Department of Politics and International Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London!
Nate was the 2020-2021 Ibrahim Abu-Lughod fellow at CPS. Recently, he was the 2021-2022 Raphael Morrison Dorman Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow, at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Nate holds a PhD in History from Rice University.
CONGRATS | Gil Hochberg wins 2022 René Wellek Prize
CPS congratulates faculty member Gil Z. Hochberg for winning the 2022 René Wellek Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association for her monograph, Becoming Palestine (Duke University Press, 2021)!
Gil is the Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies at Columbia University and a core faculty member of CPS.
The René Wellek Prizes recognize outstanding books in the discipline of comparative literature. Submissions can pertain to any field of comparative literature, but they are expected to cross national, linguistic, geographic or disciplinary borders.
For more info about the award, click here.
Fore more info about Becoming Palestine, click here.
VISIT | The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question
The Institute for Palestine Studies is proud to present The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, which it has been developing as part of a joint project with the Palestinian Museum.
The fully bilingual (English–Arabic) platform is entirely devoted to the history of modern Palestine, from the end of the Ottoman era to the present. The Encyclopedia, the first of its kind, was developed for use by academics, students, journalists, and the general public. It currently consists of the following sections:
An Overall Chronology that presents the main events and developments that shaped Palestinian modern history in the realms of war, diplomacy, politics, culture, and economy;
Thematic Chronologies, or subsets of the Overall Chronology, that facilitate access to entries relevant to specific topics;
Highlights, written by leading academics and experts in the field, that cover important events and institutions, political, military and legal-constitutional developments, as well as crucial aspects of Palestinian cultural, social, or economic life or experience;
Biographies of Palestinian intellectuals, artists, leaders, combatants, and politicians who have influenced the history of Palestine since the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries;
Places, the digitized version of the seminal book All That Remains, dedicated to the 418 Palestinian villages destroyed in 1948;
Documents, consisting of hundreds of primary texts, photographs, maps, and charts.
The Encyclopedia has come to fruition following years of preparation and several stages of implementation. Throughout this process, utmost attention has been given to introduce a description of the Palestine Question that is simultaneously committed and objective and to present Palestinians as they are—purposeful actors, and not just victims, who build with both successes and setbacks their political, social, and cultural institutions inside and outside Palestine.
The Encyclopedia will be continually upgraded and populated with additional content. To help improve it further, send feedback and suggestions to: palquest@palestine-studies.org.