Pardee Center Announces 2025 Graduate Summer Fellows

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2025 Graduate Summer Fellows. These eight outstanding Boston University graduate students represent seven different academic departments. This summer, the Graduate Summer Fellows will spend 10 weeks writing research papers while participating in programming designed to advance interdisciplinary research and learning. Meet the 2025 Fellows.

Pardee Center Hosts 2025 Janetos Distinguished Lecture, “Trump 2.0 and Latin America,” by Jamil Mahuad

Through threats of mass deportations, tariffs on Mexico, and of “taking back” the Panama Canal, Latin America has been one of the most affected regions by the initial policies of the second Trump administration. How will the region be impacted at a time when it is still recovering from its worst economic downturn in 120 years? What does this portend for U.S.-Latin American relations in years to come? Jamil Mahuad, former President of Ecuador, addressed these questions and more when he delivered the 2025 Anthony C. Janetos Memorial Distinguished Lecture titled “Trump 2.0 and Latin America.” Watch the full lecture and discussion on the Pardee Center’s YouTube Channel. Read more and watch the video.

Pardee Center Completes Spring 2025 Global Health Politics Workshop Speaker Series

The Pardee Center recently concluded the sixth semester of its Global Health Politics Workshop (GHPW) speaker series. The five-part Spring 2025 series included talks about primary health care reforms across nine countries; the relationship between images, health, and security; the prevalence of unnecessary hysterectomy in India; how legacies of colonialism affected responses to the 2014-2016 West African Ebola crisis; and the urgent need to reimagine global health by shifting power to people and institutions in the Global South. The monthly series, which has included 25 events since its launch in 2022, will continue in the fall. Read more.

Pardee Center Hosts Two-Day Workshop Exploring the Future of Food

On April 24 and 25, 2025, the Pardee Center and the BU Center for the Humanities hosted a two-day experts’ workshop exploring a set of fundamental questions about the future of food: how choices around consumption and production inflect the wider transformation of food systems. The workshop, titled “Eating to Change the World” and convened by Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow Benjamin Siegel (BU History) and Andrea Catania (BU Gastronomy), brought together scholars, activists, chefs, and students. Read more.