Most research on China’s zero-COVID policy has focused on its relationship with the country’s political regime, ideological reasoning, policy-making logic, and self-legitimation of the Communist Party. Few studies have paid sufficient attention to how the policy was lived through in everyday life and collectively experienced on the ground. In this Issues in Brief, Xuyi Zhao […]
This week, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future 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. During the first week of the program, the Fellows participated in an orientation session led by Pardee Center […]
On May 26 and 27, 2024, the Pardee Center and the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS) co-hosted a one-and-a-half day Roundtable to discuss the nature of the emerging field of ‘Faith and Climate Change,’ with a particular, but not exclusive, focus on Islam and Muslim Societies. The Roundtable brought together a diverse group of […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to present 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 […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS) have launched a future-oriented, interdisciplinary, and structured research initiative to explore the moral dimensions of climate action and the possible role of faith-based values in encouraging positive environmental and climate behaviors – particularly in the […]
Boston University recently awarded the fourth annual Anthony Janetos Climate Action Prize to a team of BU College of Engineering students for their work on portable air pollution monitors. The group is currently in talks with Bluebikes about a potential pilot program to gather air quality data from bike trips around Boston. This year’s winners […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2024 Graduate Summer Fellows. These eight outstanding Boston University graduate students represent seven different academic departments. Starting May 28, the Graduate Summer Fellows will spend 10 weeks developing research papers while participating in programs designed to advance interdisciplinary research and learning. […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently concluded the second year of its new Global Health Politics Workshop (GHPW) speaker series. The four-part Spring 2024 series included talks on exploring economically-driven health inequities, reducing maternal mortality, seeking justice for harm in situations where public authorities bear some responsibility, and […]
On April 24, 2024, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted the U.S. book launch of The Concertation Impulse in World Politics (Oxford University Press, 2024), featuring the book’s author, Andrew F. Cooper. The event also featured the Pardee School of Global Studies’ Sanne Verschuren and Grant F. Rhode […]
Is globalization over? If not, is it under fatal threat? Who should care about its possible demise? Ultimately, what’s at stake? Ernesto Zedillo, former President of Mexico and currently the Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization at Yale University, answered these questions and more when he delivered the 2024 Anthony C. Janetos […]