Join us on Monday, November 17, for a lecture by William C. Kirby, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. The subject of the talk will by Kirby’s recent book, released this year in paperback with a new preface, Creating […]
Application Deadline: Friday, November 14 Detailed Application Instructions Applications are now being accepted for the 2026 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows Program. Open to graduate students across Boston University, the program provides fellows an opportunity for intensive interdisciplinary research and writing on topics aligned with the research interests of BU’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for […]
Join us on Thursday, October 16, from 4 to 5:30 PM for the Pardee Center’s Fall Welcome Reception. This fun annual event is great way to kick off the new semester and to mingle with Pardee Center colleagues and friends. Refreshments will be served. Once again, the event will feature “Lightning Talks” by our Graduate […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2025-26 Global Health Politics Fellows. The distinguished group of Non-Resident Fellows were selected by the Global Health Politics Workshop’s (GHPW) Steering Committee. Fellows will participate in GHPW events throughout the course of the academic year and receive feedback […]
Last week, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future welcomed the 18th annual class of Graduate Summer Fellows to the Center. This year’s session includes eight BU graduate students representing seven different academic schools/departments. During the first week of the program, the Fellows participated in an orientation session with Pardee Center Interim […]
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, was recently awarded a 2025-26 Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, one of the university’s most prestigious fellowships. Radcliffe Fellows are a uniquely interdisciplinary community of scientists, artists, and scholars doing innovative work […]
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 […]