John Okechi, a 2020 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow, recently co-authored a paper exploring the ecological health of Lake Victoria resulting from the rapid growth of cage aquaculture in recent years. About 45 million people depend on Lake Victoria directly and indirectly for their food, economic livelihoods, transportation, and more. To offset the effects of climate […]
The new University-wide Center on Forced Displacement (CFD), founded by Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellows Carrie Preston and Muhammad Zaman, was recently featured in an article in The Brink. CFD fosters interdisciplinary research and engagement on the forced displacement of tens of millions of people due to war, persecution, climate change, and other disasters. “Forcibly […]
On September 28, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted its annual fall reception. At the beginning of the reception, the eight 2022 Graduate Summer Fellows, who represent five different schools or colleges and eight different academic departments, gave a series of lightning talks on the outcomes of their […]
Pablo Suarez, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently joined the University of Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), as a visiting researcher and senior policy fellow. In this capacity, Suarez co-designed and facilitated two recent workshops at CSER. The first […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is proud to co-sponsor the International Studies Association’s (ISA) annual Global South Travel Grant. The grant, provided by the Global Health Studies Section of ISA, is also co-sponsored by Brill Publishers and the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. The award will […]
Boston University has awarded the second annual Anthony Janetos Climate Action Prize to Olivia Henning (Environmental Analysis and Policy, CAS ’22) and Lucia Vilallonga (Statistics and Computer Science, CAS ’22) for their research on quantifying BU employee air travel emissions. The Prize, which includes a financial gift to the winners, is awarded annually to the […]
Cathal J. Nolan, a Professor of History, Director of the Pardee Center’s International History Institute (IHI), and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, has joined the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft as one of ten new Non-Resident Fellows. The Quincy Institute’s Non-Resident Fellows program connects scholars, practitioners, advocates, and journalists from around the country and […]
Neta C. Crawford, Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and co-director of the Costs of War Project at Brown University, has authored a new book titled The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions. In the book, published by MIT Press, Prof. Crawford […]
Joshua Duclos, a former Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, authored a new book titled Wilderness, Morality, and Value. In the book, Duclos explores the morality of wilderness preservation given the inherent suffering of wildlife, and argues that “the technological and ethical reality of the […]
This week, the 2022 Graduate Summer Fellows gave presentations on their ongoing research projects at the midpoint of the 10-week program at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. The eight Fellows presented their research progress to date and next steps, receiving feedback from their peers, Pardee Center staff, and affiliated faculty. The Fellows will […]