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 […]
Application Deadline: Tuesday, March 25 Download full application instructions Applications are now being accepted for the 2025 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows Program, which offers graduate students from across Boston University an opportunity for intensive interdisciplinary research and writing on topics aligned with the future-focused research interests of BU’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study […]
“Arctic greening” describes the alarming increase of vegetation around the Northern world, which accelerates global warming and permafrost thaw. But greening in the Arctic also inspires economic, political, and imaginative innovation among local and Indigenous Arctic peoples, who are “experts of change,” as Mininnguaq Kleist (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Greenland) affirmed at the Arctic Circle […]