2024 Graduate Summer Fellows Arrive at the Pardee Center

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently welcomed the 17th cohort of its Graduate Summer Fellows program to the Center. This year’s session includes BU graduate students representing seven different academic departments. Over the course of the 10-week program, the Fellows will complete research papers while participating in activities and events designed to advance interdisciplinary research and learning. Learn more about this year’s Fellows and their research.

New Paper: “Between Cohesion and Control: Shequ Governance during China’s Zero-COVID”

In a new Issues in Brief, Xuyi Zhao, a 2023 Graduate Summer Fellow and PhD candidate in sociocultural anthropology, explores how China’s draconian zero-COVID policy was made possible on a daily basis, and what implications this top-down initiative engendered for urban governance and community building in urban China. Based on her 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Chengdu, she presents “the Community” (shequ) as a dynamic interface between the state and the individual citizens that often oscillates between the paradoxical aspects of social cohesion and political control. Read more.

Pardee Center, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS) to Partner on Faith and Climate Change Initiative

The Pardee Center and OCIS have launched a research initiative to explore the moral dimensions of climate action. As part of this initiative, which is co-led by Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow Prof. Adil Najam, OCIS and the Pardee Center are organizing two roundtables – one in Oxford and one in Boston. Each roundtable will bring together scholars, policy experts, and activists from a variety of disciplines to produce a policy paper that identifies a research agenda on faith and climate change. Read more.

Pardee Center Launches Global Health Politics Podcast

The Pardee Center is pleased to announce the launch of the Global Health Politics podcast. Hosted by Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow Prof. Joseph Harris as part of the Global Health Politics Workshop, the podcast features intimate, one-of-a-kind conversations with leading scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and activists working on critical issues in global health. Read more.