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Call for Applications: CFD Summer Fellowships

Please find full application details here. The Center on Forced Displacement Summer Fellows Program offers graduate students (enrolled in master’s or doctoral programs) from across Boston University an opportunity to engage in intensive interdisciplinary research and writing on topics related to forced displacement.  The 10-week fellowship (May 30 – August 2024) includes a financial stipend […]

Call for Applications: Summer Workshop on Forced Displacement for K-12 Teachers

Please find full application details here.  The Center on Forced Displacement at Boston University invites K-12 public school teachers to participate in an enriching one-week summer workshop focused on one of the greatest global challenges of our time: forced displacement.  The workshop is designed for public school teachers (primary, middle, and high school levels) from […]

Call for Contributions – Critical Forced Displacement Magazine

Boston University’s Center on Forced Displacement invites contributions to our new interdisciplinary, multi-genre magazine. The magazine, published quarterly, will bring together a variety of original works across disciplines in a peer-reviewed publication that examines the global challenge of forced displacement through a multi-faceted lens. For our online publication, the entries can be broadly related to […]

CFD Annual Conference 2024 – Call for Presentations

Center on Forced Displacement Annual Conference: The Future of Borders  April 23-24, 2024 – Boston, MA The Center on Forced Displacement is inviting calls for presentations for our 2024 annual conference entitled The Future of Borders.    The conference will bring together interdisciplinary scholars, researchers, artists, practitioners, students and engaged community members from around the world […]

Call for 2024 Seed Grant Applications

The Center on Forced Displacement (CFD) is a platform for educators, students, researchers, activists, and policymakers to engage in interdisciplinary research, discussion, and education about forced displacement. Through interdisciplinary, international collaboration, we identify, research, and work to resolve the challenges of forced displacement, one of the major moral imperatives of our time. By connecting with […]

CFD 2022-2023 Annual Report

  CFD was launched in July 2022, and our initiatives, events, and activities have brought together students and scholars from across the campus and around the world to create new knowledge, constructively critique existing approaches, and engage in rigorous research that improves lives.  In this first Annual Report, we look back at the past year […]

Call for Applications – Post-Doctoral Fellow (Sawyer Seminar)

Boston University, Center on Forced Displacement Accepting Applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow   Boston University’s Center on Forced Displacement (CFD; www.bu.edu/cfd) invites applications for a one-year post-doctoral scholar position supporting a seminar on EU and US Border Regimes as they impact migrants and asylum seekers traveling through Central America and the Balkan states. The CFD […]

Call for Applications – Post-Doctoral Fellow

  Boston University, Center on Forced Displacement Accepting Applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow   Boston University’s Center on Forced Displacement (CFD; www.bu.edu/cfd) invites applications for a two-year post-doctoral scholar position developing new projects with a focus on migrants and displaced people in or traveling through Turkey and the Balkans. The CFD Post-doctoral Fellow will have […]

Call For Applications – STEM Postdoctoral Associate Position

The Center on Forced Displacement (CFD; www.bu.edu/cfd ) at Boston University is seeking a postdoctoral associate for a unique opportunity at the interface of science, public health, policy and forced displacement. The post-doctoral associate will conduct original research at the interface of disease dynamics, forced displacement and access to care among refugees, internally displaced and […]