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 […]
On November 12, 2021, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Center for the Study of Asia co-hosted a webinar titled “The Russia-China Quasi-Alliance and the Polar Silk Road.” The event featured a presentation by Lyle J. Goldstein (Research Professor, China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI), Naval War College), […]
Catherine West, a Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored a paper exploring the size of cod in the North Pacific over the past several thousand years. The paper, published in the journal Quaternary Research, […]
Adriana Craciun, Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Chair of Humanities and Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has been awarded a Henderson Senior Research Fellowship by the Boston University Center for the Humanities (BUCH). Named after Jeffrey Henderson, former Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences (CAS), the […]
On February 26, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, the College of Arts & Sciences, and the Center for the Humanities hosted an all-day, interdisciplinary symposium exploring the future of the Arctic. The event, titled “Arctic Worlds: A Symposium on the Environment and Humanities,” took place at Barristers Hall at the […]
Catherine West, a Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently presented a paper titled “Human Behavioral Ecology and the Complexities of Arctic Foodways” at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The paper, which […]