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Pardee Center Welcomes Spanish Delegation for Discussion on U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy & China Policy
On July 1, 2024, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future welcomed a delegation of academics, researchers, and policymakers from Spain for a conversation about China and its activities in the Indo-Pacific with Amb. Jorge Heine, Pardee Center Interim Director. The delegation was invited to the United States under the auspices of the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) and the meeting was organized in partnership with... More
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