Category: 2020

Dean Adil Najam Discusses “The World After Coronavirus” Video Series in Chatham House’s The World Today Article

Pardee School of Global Studies Dean Adil Najam recently discussed the importance of multidisciplinarity in international relations for an article in the Chatham House magazine, The World Today. Specifically, he focused on the lessons learned after conducting more than 100 interviews with a wide range of leading experts for the Pardee Center’s video series, “The […]

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Faculty Research Fellow Neta Crawford Authors Piece on Biden Administration’s Foreign Policy Approach for The Conversation

Neta C. Crawford, Professor and Chair of the BU Department of Political Science and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently co-authored a new article for The Conversation exploring how the Biden administration will impact the future of racism, the Supreme Court, and foreign policy. In the article, Prof. Crawford specifically addresses the future of foreign […]

Faculty Research Fellow Catherine West Co-Authors Paper on Changing Cod Sizes in the North Pacific Over Millennia

Catherine West, a Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored a paper exploring the size of cod in the North Pacific over the past several thousand years. The paper, published in the journal Quaternary Research, […]

Postdoc Kira Sullivan-Wiley Authors Paper on Future Land Use Narratives in Brazil

Kira Sullivan-Wiley, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, co-authored a recent paper presenting a new, interdisciplinary approach using qualitative and quantitative methods to better understand the land-use choices that people make. In the paper, published in the journal Global Environmental Change, the authors introduced the integrated socio-perceptual (ISP) […]

Ecological Forecasting Initiative Launches First NEON Forecast Challenge

The Ecological Forecasting Initiative’s Research Coordination Network (EFI-RCN) has announced the launch of the inaugural NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network) Ecological Forecast Challenge. The challenge asks participants to make predictions about ecological processes using NEON data prior to its release. The challenge spans five themes: aquatic ecosystems, terrestrial carbon and water fluxes, tick populations, phenology, […]

Pardee Center Hosts Virtual Symposium, “How Democracy Survives: The Crises of the Nation State”

In Conjunction with the Stanley P. Stone Distinguished Lecture Series, the BU College of General Studies, the Workable World Trust, and the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning From October 28-30, 2020, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies hosted a symposium […]

Dean Adil Najam Interviewed on “The World After Coronavirus” Video Series

 Pardee School of Global Studies Dean Adil Najam was recently interviewed by Prva TV in Montenegro about the Pardee Center’s video series, “The World After Coronavirus.” In the series, Dean Najam conducted more than 100 interviews with leading experts from Boston University and around the world, exploring the challenges and opportunities we will face […]

Faculty Research Fellow Heidi Peltier Gives Talk on Post-9/11 Military Spending for MIT’s Radius Initiative

Heidi Peltier, a Research Professor at the BU Department of Political Science and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently gave a talk exploring the impacts of post-9/11 military spending. In the talk, Prof. Peltier drew on her recent research for the Costs of War project to illustrate the scale of post-9/11 U.S. military spending […]

Pardee Center Co-Hosts Webinar on the Future of Clean Energy Markets in the Wake of COVID-19

On October 23, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future co-hosted a webinar titled “Clean Energy Markets in the Wake of COVID-19,” in which panelists discussed the dynamics that will shape clean energy markets in 2021 and beyond. The panel included Robert Kaufmann (Pardee Center Faculty Associate and Professor, Earth […]