The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2024-25 Global Health Politics Fellows. The inaugural group of Non-Resident Fellows is comprised of five PhD students or postdoctoral fellows who were selected by the Global Health Politics Workshop’s (GHPW) Steering Committee. Fellows will participate in GHPW events […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future mourns the unexpected passing of Pablo Suarez, a long-time Visiting Research Fellow, collaborator, and friend. For more than 15 years, Pablo frequently and generously shared his magnetic personality and infectious energy with the Pardee Center community, particularly with the Center’s Graduate Summer Fellows […]
Period poverty, a term originating in the United Kingdom, refers to the inadequate access to essential products and services for menstrual care. It has been a prominent focus in menstruation scholarship for over a decade. To persuade decision-makers and donors, civil society organizations and scholars have often highlighted the negative consequences of the lack of […]
On July 1, 2024, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future welcomed a delegation of academics, researchers, and policymakers from Spain for a conversation about China and its activities in the Indo-Pacific with Amb. Jorge Heine, Pardee Center Interim Director. The delegation was invited to the United States under the […]
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 […]