Jorge Heine, Research Professor at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, has been named Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future — an affiliate center of the Pardee School of Global Studies — effective January 1, 2023. Heine succeeds Adil Najam, Dean Emeritus and […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the BU Precarity Lab hosted a two-part speaker series during the fall of 2022 to get behind the scenes of doing and publishing research on precarity and inequality. The series, which featured Barbara Kiviat (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Stanford University) and Lauren […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently concluded the first semester of its new Global Health Politics Workshop (GHPW) speaker series. The four-part fall 2022 series included talks on reducing health inequalities, reproductive justice organizing, post-pandemic debt cancellation for the Global South, and post-abortion care in Senegal. The monthly […]
Muhammad H. Zaman, a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, is the co-editor of a new book titled Migration and Health. The book, published by The University of Chicago Press, is an interdisciplinary introduction to the implications of human migration for […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the University of Cambridge’s Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) recently hosted a virtual symposium featuring a panel of interdisciplinary experts exploring the topic of “climate repair” — and geoengineering more broadly — through a humanities lens, with a particular focus on the […]
Carrie Preston and Muhammad Zaman, Faculty Research Fellows at the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and co-founders of the new University-wide Center on Forced Displacement (CFD), recently participated in a panel discussion on forced displacement. The event, which was hosted by Boston University Global Programs as part of its 2022 International […]
Ateeb Gul, a 2022 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow and a PhD candidate in Religion at Boston University, recently presented a paper at a symposium at the University of Oslo’s Norwegian Centre for Human Rights. The paper, titled “Child Marriage Legislation in Pakistan: Religious (Counter)Narratives and the Politics of Law,” is the result of Gul’s recent research as […]
Noor Toraif, a 2021 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow and a PhD candidate at BU’s School of Social Work, was recently featured in a BU Today article for her work creating a new free online course for understanding structural racism. Led by Dawn Belkin Martinez, a School of Social Work Clinical Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Equity […]
Jeffrey Geddes, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently presented gave a Distinguished Lecture at the University of Toronto Centre for Global Change Science (CGCS) seminar series. Prof. Geddes’s talk, titled “Contemporary and Future Changes to Biosphere-Atmosphere-Chemistry Interactions,” explored the role of the terrestrial […]
John Okechi, a 2020 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow, recently co-authored a paper exploring the ecological health of Lake Victoria resulting from the rapid growth of cage aquaculture in recent years. About 45 million people depend on Lake Victoria directly and indirectly for their food, economic livelihoods, transportation, and more. To offset the effects of climate […]