The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2025 Graduate Summer Fellows. These eight outstanding Boston University graduate students represent seven different academic departments. Starting May 27, the Graduate Summer Fellows will spend 10 weeks writing research papers while participating in programming designed to advance interdisciplinary research and learning. […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has 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; […]
On April 24 and 25, 2025, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future 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 […]
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 […]
On February 25, 2025, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Kenney, a Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School, gave a public lecture about how artificial intelligence, especially generative AI, will disrupt all facets of society, particularly national security. The event, titled “AI and American National Security,” took place at the […]
On February 6, 2025, the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future 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. […]
On January 28, 2025, Tim Ritchie, President of the Museum of Science, gave a public lecture about the importance of scientific collaboration between countries. The event, titled “Science Across Borders,” took place at the CDS Conference Center on the 17th Floor of the Boston University Center for Computing and Data Sciences. It was part of […]
Adriana Craciun, Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Chair of Humanities and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored an article exploring “Arctic Greening” — the phenomenon where land once covered by ice is being colonized by plants — in Greenland. While 95% of Greenland remains covered […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce the International History Institute’s (IHI) Spring 2025 “History of International Law” speaker series. All three events will be held in the Pardee School of Global Studies’ Riverside Room at 121 Bay State Road. The series is open to the […]
On January 22, 2025, Joseph S. Nye Jr., Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, gave a talk about his new book, A Life in the American Century. In the book, Nye explains that, for the past eight decades, we have lived in “the American Century” – a period during which the U.S. has enjoyed […]