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New Paper: “Between Cohesion and Control: Shequ Governance during China’s Zero-COVID”
Most research on China’s zero-COVID policy has focused on its relationship with the country’s political regime, ideological reasoning, policy-making logic, and self-legitimation of the Communist Party. Few studies have paid sufficient attention to how the policy was lived through in everyday life and collectively experienced on the ground. In this Issues in Brief, Xuyi Zhao reflects on her 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Chengdu — a southwestern Chinese metropolis with over 21 million permanent residents... More
2024 Graduate Summer Fellows Arrive at the Pardee Center
This week, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future welcomed the 17th cohort of its Graduate Summer Fellows program to the Center. This year's session includes BU graduate students representing seven different academic departments. During the first week of the program, the Fellows participated in an orientation session led by Pardee Center Interim Director Amb. Jorge Heine (Research Professor, Pardee School of Global Studies) and a workshop on effective writing and communication for... More
Najam Co-Leads First OCIS-Pardee Center Roundtable on Faith and Climate Change at Oxford
On May 26 and 27, 2024, the Pardee Center and the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS) co-hosted a one-and-a-half day Roundtable to discuss the nature of the emerging field of ‘Faith and Climate Change,’ with a particular, but not exclusive, focus on Islam and Muslim Societies. The Roundtable brought together a diverse group of 16 participants, including researchers, practitioners, community activists, policymakers and journalists – mostly from the UK. After an opening session in... More
Pardee Center Launches Global Health Politics Podcast
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to present the Global Health Politics podcast. Hosted by Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow Prof. Joseph Harris as part of the Global Health Politics Workshop, the podcast features intimate, one-of-a-kind conversations with leading scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and activists working on critical issues in global health. The first episode features a conversation about transnational reproductive justice organizing with Prof. Jallicia Jolly, an Assistant... More
Pardee Center, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies to Partner on Faith and Climate Change Initiative
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS) have launched a future-oriented, interdisciplinary, and structured research initiative to explore the moral dimensions of climate action and the possible role of faith-based values in encouraging positive environmental and climate behaviors – particularly in the context of Islam and Muslim societies. As part of this initiative, OCIS and the Pardee Center are organizing two roundtables –... More