Category: 2024

Pardee Center Mourns the Passing of Visiting Fellow Pablo Suarez

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 […]

New Paper: “Desire for Diverse Menstrual Care: Contextualizing Period Poverty with Turkish Menstruators”

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 […]

New Paper: “Between Cohesion and Control: Shequ Governance during China’s Zero-COVID”

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 […]

2024 Graduate Summer Fellows Arrive at the Pardee Center

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 […]

Pardee Center Launches Global Health Politics Podcast

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 […]

Pardee Center, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies to Partner on Faith and Climate Change Initiative

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 […]

2024 Anthony Janetos Climate Action Prize Winners Announced

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 […]