In the first initiative of its kind, the Palestinian Museum has announced 17 research grants on Palestinian culture. The initiative comes in fulfilment of one of the key components of the Museum’s 2019–2023 strategic programme and through its newly-established research department. The department’s programme is aimed at fostering civic engagement and reflexion, producing and disseminating knowledge about Palestine, and addressing knowledge gaps about Palestinian history and culture. The department’s first annual programme is funded with the generous support of Ghalia and Omar al-Qattan.
The Palestinian Museum is pleased to announce an open call for papers for the Museum’s strategic research programs, as follows:
- Art History in Palestine from the 19th century until late-20th century (1990s) and its discourses
Description: This research project invites scholars and field researchers to submit outlines of their research proposals that reflect a wide-ranging engagement with the historiography of art in the context of Palestine and its diasporas.
- The Palestinian Coast: From the late Ottoman Period until the Present
Description: The project seeks to deepen and strengthen qualitative research on history of the Palestinian coast, with in-depth insight into its material, socio-economic and political and settler colonial contexts and futures.
- History of Printing in Jerusalem
Description: The project seeks to deepen and strengthen qualitative research on history of printing and publishing in Jerusalem, with in-depth insight into its material, socio-economic and political contexts.
- New Perspectives on Contemporary Palestinian Culture
Description: The project seeks to deepen and strengthen qualitative critical research on contemporary Palestinian culture, with in-depth insight into its material, socio-economic and political contexts.
Timeline
7 February 2020: Call for applications.
1 April 2020: Deadline for submitting abstracts and research outline.
1 June 2020: Announcement of awards granted.
30 June 2020: Signing of contracts with successful applicants.
This research programme is generously funded by Ghalia and Omar Al-Qattan.
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