The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2024 Faculty Research Fellows. With seed funding from the Pardee Center, the 12 new Faculty Research Fellows will launch one- to two-year interdisciplinary research projects. The projects were selected by an interdisciplinary committee of Pardee Center-affiliated faculty. Over the course […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at the Pardee School of Global Studies announces a call for proposals for Faculty Research Fellows to begin in Spring 2024. By awarding seed grants to Faculty Research Fellows within the Boston University community, the Center seeks to catalyze interdisciplinary, policy-relevant research on […]
Jeffrey Geddes, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently gave an invited talk at the American Chemical Society’s 2023 Spring Meeting in Indianapolis. The title of his talk was “Sources and Sinks in the Biosphere: Advancing the Predictive Capacity of Ecosystem-Atmosphere-Chemistry Interactions.” In his […]
Sam Deese and Michael Holm, Senior Lecturers in the College of General Studies and former Faculty Research Fellows at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, are the co-editors of a new book exploring how liberal democracy can better adapt to the challenges of our time by evolving beyond the […]
On March 29, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted an all-day conference titled “How Wars End.” The event featured five expert panels. The full program is below. This conference was convened by
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]