The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held its first information session on the Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows Program on October 31, 2014 with approximately 45 Boston University graduate students in attendance. Pardee Center Director Anthony Janetos and Associate Director Cynthia Barakatt provided an overview of the program and the application process. Attendees also […]
Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future Director Anthony Janetos was featured in an October 30, 2014 article in the Daily Free Press titled “Boston University staff, students support adoption of new standardized climate change indicator system.” The article discusses an indicator system that would show impacts and response strategies to climate change, which Prof. […]
2014 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow Lilly Havstad was recently awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship to support her research in Mozambique and Portugal. Havstad is a Ph.D. candidate in the History department at Boston University. For her dissertation, she is researching changing foodways and the emergence of an African middle class in Maputo, the capital […]
The Initiative on Cities and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will co-sponsor the conference “Sea Level Rise & the Future of Coastal Cities” on Thursday, November 13 and Friday, November 14, 2014 in the Metcalf Trustee Center. The conference will examine how cities are planning for and adapting to rising sea levels, extreme weather events, and […]
Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Susan Foster’s presentation at the Pardee Center conference “The Future is Now: Urban Asia in the 21st Century” was featured in the CityLab article “As Asian Cities Grow, so Do Public Health Concerns.” Foster’s presentation “Promise and Peril: Urbanization and Public Health in Asian Cities” focused on some of the ways that […]
2011 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow M. Chloe Mulderig will give a lecture on Monday, October 20, 2014 as part of the Walter Rodney Seminar lecture series. Her presentation is titled “Social Sanctioning and Religious Subjectivities Among Young Women in Fes, Moroco.” M. Chloe Mulderig is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at BU. She received her […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future invites Boston University graduate students interested in applying for the 2015 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows Program to an information session at the Pardee House, 67 Bay State Road, on Friday, October 31, 2014 from 12-1p.m. (lunch will be provided). Seating is limited and advance […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce a Pardee House Seminar titled “Freshwater, Floods, Fish, and The Future of a Nation.” The seminar will be held at the Pardee House, 67 Bay State Road, on Wednesday, October 22, 2014 from 12-1:30p.m. (lunch will be available starting at 11:30a.m.). Seating […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study for the Longer-Range Future in collaboration with the Boston University Global Programs’ India Initiative hosted an informal discussion with former Minister Jairam Ramesh of India on October 6 titled “Energy, Economy, Environment.” Sixteen participants joined in the discussion, including Boston University professors from Earth & Environment, the School of Public Health, […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future in collaboration with the Boston University Center for Finance, Law & Policy has published a new Pardee Center Task Force Report titled “Capital Account Liberalization in China: The Need for a Balanced Approach.” This is the third report stemming from the Pardee Center […]