Birzeit University participates in Fulda’s International Autumn School on mobilities and human rights
Birzeit University participated in the second International Autumn School on Mobilities and Human Rights organized by Fulda University of Applied Sciences in Germany on November 14-18, 2022. This event is part of a research, exchange and teaching collaboration between Birzeit University and Fulda’s Department of Social and Cultural Sciences.
The International Autumn School brought scholars and students from around the world to discuss various dimensions of mobilities and human rights. The workshops and panels explored human rights and (im)mobility in labor migration, forced migration in relation to displacement and development, intersectional perspectives on (im)mobility, student mobility in connection to transnational knowledge production and doing research in a mobile world.
Political science professor at Birzeit University Anja Zorob co-chaired a workshop titled “Global Trade and Cooperation in Times of Corona: Old and New Asymmetries?” Natali Salameh, Ph.D. candidate in social sciences at Birzeit, presented a paper on “Palestinian Commercial Interests and the Colonial System.”
The International Autumn School is part of Fulda’s project “Transnational Governance and Human Rights.” Birzeit University has been a partner in the project since it commenced in 2021. Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the collaboration will continue until 2024. Several institutions at Birzeit University cooperate in the project, including the Muwatin Institute for Democracy and Human Rights, the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies and the PhD Program in Social Sciences.
The project targets students, PhD candidates, researchers and teaching staff to enhance cooperation between international partners to internationalize teaching, research and doctoral studies. Partners include the State University of New York (SUNY) in Cortland, United States; the MacEwan University in Edmonton, Canada; Sciences Po Toulouse, France; University College London; and the German Jordanian University in Amman.
More information on Fulda’s project “Transnational Governance and Human Rights” can be found on the following website:
