NEWS | Rashid Khalidi and Nathalie Handal named 2020 Palestine Book Award winners

CPS congratulates our faculty members Rashid Khalidi and Nathalie Handal, winners of the 2020 Palestine Book Awards.

A total of 38 books were entered in this year’s competition, with seven books being shortlisted by a panel of expert judges. The awards were categorised as follows: Academic, Creative, and Lifetime Achievement Award.

Lifetime Achievement Award
Finbarr Barry Flood (Editor)
There Where You Are Not: Selected Writings of Kamal Boullata (Hirmer Verlag, Munich)

Creative Award
Nathalie Handal
Life in a Country Album (University Of Pittsburgh Press)

Creative Award
Susan Abulhawa
Against the Loveless World (Bloomsbury Circus)

Academic Award
Rashid Khalidi
The hundred years' war on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Metropolitan Books/henry Holt & Company)

For more info about the Palestine Book Awards click here.

SUBMIT | Call for Papers: Power(s) in Palestine, special issue of Confluences Méditerranée

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Confluences Méditerranée invites submissions for the open call, Power(s) in Palestine.

The issue is being coordinated by Dima Alsajdeya (Paris II / College of France), Francois Ceccaldi (HEESS / College de France), and Emilio Dabed (Osgoode Hall Law School, Nathanson Center, York University, Toronto).

The special issue aims to produce a powerful collection of articles exploring the new forms of power(s) brought to Palestine by Oslo, and the neoliberal state-like institutions being built.

Read the full call for submissions here

ATTEND | Rashid Khalidi shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2020

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Join the 9th annual Palestine Book Awards!

The evening will begin with a keynote address by Dr Rima Khalaf, former Jordanian minister and president of the Global Organisation Against Racial Discrimination and Segregation.

The keynote will be followed by a roundtable discussion with our shortlisted authors, discussing their books, moderated by Professor Eugene Rogan of St Anthony’s College, Oxford.

After the roundtable, the winners of this year's award will be announced.

Shortlisted Authors:

Susan Abulhawa | Against the Loveless World

Finbarr Barry Flood (Editor) | There Where You Are Not: Selected Writings of Kamal Boullata

Nathalie Handal | Life in a Country Album

Rashid Khalidi | The hundred years' war on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017

Sahar Khalifeh (Author), Sawad Hussain (Translator) | Passage to the Plaza

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian | Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding

Gardner Thompson | Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel

You can read the judges' notes on why their books were shortlisted here.

REGISTER

ATTEND | Launch event for Hamid Dabashi's new book, On Edward Said: Remembrance of Things Past

Join Hamid Dabashi and Ahdaf Soueif as they discuss Dabashi's new book, On Edward Said: Remembrance of Things Past.

On Edward Said: Remembrance of Things Past is an intimate intellectual, political and personal portrait of Edward Said, one of the 20th centuries' leading public intellectuals. This is an online event and information and registration can be found here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/on-edward-said-remembrance-of-things-past-tickets-127041794427

Tue, December 8, 2020 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

ATTEND | WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED: AGAINST THE CENSORSHIP AND CRIMINALIZATION OF ACADEMIC POLITICAL SPEECH

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WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED: AGAINST THE CENSORSHIP AND CRIMINALIZATION OF ACADEMIC POLITICAL SPEECH

With Katherine Franke (Columbia University), Nerdeen Kiswani (CUNY Law School/Within our Lifetime), Fred Moten (NYU), Radhika Sainath (Palestine Legal) and moderated by Andrew Ross (NYU-AAUP and USACBI)

Last month, Zoom, Facebook, and YouTube all shut down an open academic webinar, organized by a San Francisco State University department, and featuring Palestinian liberation advocate Leila Khaled. Why are big tech platforms making decisions that violate academic freedom? Why is speech about Palestinian rights always the first to be censored, and how should academic communities respond? NYU's AAUP chapter hosts a webinar panel of New York-based speakers as part of a national day of action to address these urgent questions.

Get more info here.

APPLY | 2020 PARC Fellowship Awards

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2020 PARC Fellowship Awards

  • PARC announces its 9th National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) competition for research in the humanities or research that embraces a humanistic approach and methods. Fellowship awards are $4,200 per month for a minimum of four and a maximum of eight consecutive months. Applications due January 11, 2021.

  • PARC announces its 22nd annual U.S. research fellowship competition for research that will contribute to Palestinian Studies. Research must take place in Palestine, Israel, Jordan, or Lebanon. Fellowship awards are up to a maximum of $9,000. Applications due January 4, 2021.

  • PARC announces its 22nd annual Palestinian research fellowship competition for research that will contribute to Palestinian Studies. Applicants must be Palestinian doctoral students or Palestinian scholars who have earned their PhD. Fellowship awards are up to a maximum of $6,000. Applications due November 24, 2020.

For complete information on these fellowships, visit PARC's website at http://parc-us-pal.org.

  • The Council of American Overseas Research Centers announces its Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program. Scholars must carry out research in two or more countries outside the United States, at least one of which hosts a participating American overseas research center (this includes PARC). Applications due January 12, 2021. Visit https://www.caorc.org for more information.