Pardee Center Hosts 2025 Janetos Distinguished Lecture, “Trump 2.0 and Latin America,” by Jamil Mahuad
Through threats of mass deportations, tariffs on Mexico, and of “taking back” the Panama Canal, Latin America has been one of the most affected regions by the initial policies of the second Trump administration. How will the region be impacted at a time when it is still recovering from its worst economic downturn in 120 years? What does this portend for U.S.-Latin American relations in years to come? Jamil Mahuad, former President of Ecuador, addressed these questions and more when he delivered the 2025 Anthony C. Janetos Memorial Distinguished Lecture titled “Trump 2.0 and Latin America.” Watch the full lecture and discussion on the Pardee Center’s YouTube Channel. Read more and watch the video.
Pardee Center Hosts Two-Day Workshop Exploring the Future of Food
On April 24 and 25, 2025, the Pardee Center and the BU Center for the Humanities hosted a two-day experts’ workshop exploring a set of fundamental questions about the future of food: how choices around consumption and production inflect the wider transformation of food systems. The workshop, titled “Eating to Change the World” and convened by Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow Benjamin Siegel (BU History) and Andrea Catania (BU Gastronomy), brought together scholars, activists, chefs, and students. Read more.
Pardee Center Completes Spring 2025 Global Health Politics Workshop Speaker Series
The Pardee Center recently concluded the sixth semester of its Global Health Politics Workshop (GHPW) speaker series. The five-part Spring 2025 series included talks about primary health care reforms across nine countries; the relationship between images, health, and security; the prevalence of unnecessary hysterectomy in India; how legacies of colonialism affected responses to the 2014-2016 West African Ebola crisis; and the urgent need to reimagine global health by shifting power to people and institutions in the Global South. The monthly series, which has included 25 events since its launch in 2022, will continue in the fall. Read more.
Pardee Center Hosts Boston Launch of New Report, “Toward a Better Security Order”
On February 6, the Pardee Center hosted the Boston launch of a major new report from The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft’s Better Order Project, which brought together more than 130 experts from more than 40 countries to develop a roadmap for stabilizing the international security order. The report, titled “Toward a Better Security Order,” puts forth a series of proposals aimed at rejuvenating an inclusive global security order rooted in international law, multilateralism, and the ability of states to participate on an equal basis. The event was recorded, and is available to watch on the Pardee Center’s YouTube channel. Read more and watch the video.