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 […]
Addressing Challenges of Forced Displacement through STEM Education: Collaborative Initiative With National Academies
Engineering a Holistic Response to the Global Crisis of Forced Displacement
The Center on Forced Displacement Announces CFD Annual Conference Keynote Speaker: Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Center on Forced Displacement is excited to announce that the keynote speaker for the inaugural CFD Annual Conference is Nobel Laureate, Abdulrazak Gurnah. Gurnah is the celebrated author of novels, as well as critical studies of postcolonial literature. He grew up on the island of Zanzibar but was forcibly displaced when, in the 1960s, the […]
Call for Applications – Summer Program on Forced Migration and Borders
Center on Forced Displacement (CFD) opens a call for applications for its first Summer Program on Forced Migration and Borders to be held July 17 – 29, 2023 in Belgrade, Serbia. Program Background and Objectives Long before the beginning of the migration “crisis” in 2015, the US and the European Union began working on establishing […]