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Amb. Jorge Heine Named Pardee Center Interim Director
Jorge Heine, Research Professor at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, has been named Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future — an affiliate center of the Pardee School of Global Studies — effective January 1, 2023. Heine succeeds Adil Najam, Dean Emeritus and Professor of International Relations and Earth and Environment at the Pardee School, who has overseen the Pardee Center since 2019. More
Pardee Center Co-Hosts Precarity Lab Fall Speaker Series
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the BU Precarity Lab hosted a two-part speaker series during the fall of 2022 to get behind the scenes of doing and publishing research on precarity and inequality. The series, which featured Barbara Kiviat (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Stanford University) and Lauren Rivera (Professor of Management & Organizations and Sociology, Northwestern University) explored precarious work — work that is poorly paid, unprotected, More
Pardee Center Hosts Four-Part Speaker Series on Politics of Global Health
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently concluded the first semester of its new Global Health Politics Workshop (GHPW) speaker series. The four-part fall 2022 series included talks on reducing health inequalities, reproductive justice organizing, post-pandemic debt cancellation for the Global South, and post-abortion care in Senegal. The monthly series will continue in the spring. View the Spring 2023 schedule and register to attend here. Recordings of the fall... More
Faculty Research Fellow Muhammad Zaman Co-Edits New Book on Migration and Health
Muhammad H. Zaman, a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, is the co-editor of a new book titled Migration and Health. The book, published by The University of Chicago Press, is an interdisciplinary introduction to the implications of human migration for public health, examining not just the welfare of migrants, but also that of the source, destination, and ensuing-generation populations. The book... More
Pardee Center Hosts Symposium on Science and Ethics of Climate Repair
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the University of Cambridge's Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) recently hosted a virtual symposium featuring a panel of interdisciplinary experts exploring the topic of “climate repair” — and geoengineering more broadly — through a humanities lens, with a particular focus on the Arctic. The event was the twelfth installment of the ongoing Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series, a partnership between the Pardee... More