Research at the Pardee School brings together talent from across Boston University. The School’s research portfolio includes projects undertaken by Pardee School’s core faculty, Centers and Institutes, and research initiatives.
The Pardee School's 7 affiliated research centers are dedicated to advancing human progress. Each center has a regional or thematic focus: African Studies; Asian Studies; European Studies; Latin American Studies; Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA); Global Development Policy (GDP Center); and the Study of the Longer-Range Future.
On Friday, May 3rd, a large audience gathered at Boston University for a daylong conference on the Jewish Left, hosted by the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies' Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA). CURA Director Jeremy Menchik opened the event by emphasizing the institute's commitment to fostering open dialogue and education...
The African Studies Center at Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies recently hosted two insightful seminars that examined the complex relationships between language, power, art and identity in Africa's history.On April 22nd, Dr. Joshua Castillo, a Boston University History PhD, presented his research on the use of the Lingala language as a means of...
The African Studies Center at Boston University's Pardee School of Global Studies announced over $360,000 in tuition and stipend awards to 17 graduate and undergraduate students studying African languages. The record funding through the Foreign Language and Area Studies program will support intensive language training in Kiswahili, isiXhosa, Wolof and others.
In a significant contribution to the discourse on sustainable energy transition, Tsitsi Musasike, Professor of the Practice of Global Development Policy at Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, alongside Kevin P. Gallagher, Professor of Global Development and Director of the Global Development Policy Center, and others, recently co-authored a comprehensive report from the Boston University Global Development...
The Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the African Studies Center within the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies were honored to jointly host a distinguished delegation from Mozambique. Led by Dr. Frederico Benito Congolo, Director of the Diplomatic School at Joaquim Chissano University in Maputo, the delegation comprised representatives...
The Pardee School’s African Studies Center hosted its annual African Theater Night and Community Dinner on April 3rd, 2024, featuring nine original skits performed in person and on film by ASC’s African language students. Skits included Swahili, Akan Twi, Amharic, Igbo, Wolof, IsiXhosa and isiZulu presentations touching on traditional African customs, challenges of modern life, the African...
The African Studies Center hosted Simmons University Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations Abel Djassi Amado March 18 for another in the Center’s Walter Rodney seminar series. Professor Amado, a BU PhD in Political Science and African Studies, spoke on “Anticolonial Nationalism in ‘Portuguese’ Africa and the Language Question.,” Professor Amado focused on...
The African Studies Center hosted a delegation of nine International Visitors Leadership Program members from eight African Countries on March 20, 2024. The program, organized by the Department of State brings emerging leaders from around the world to the U.S. for focused study trips. The delegation included members from Cameroon, Central African Republic, Mali, Morocco,...