The Graduate Summer Fellows recently had a lunch discussion with Jennifer Weeks, the Environment and Energy Editor at The Conversation, a non-profit online publication featuring articles written by academics and intended for the general public. Weeks gave an overview of the origin of The Conversation, which began in Australia and now has editions in Africa, Canada, […]
Pablo Suarez, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, hosted an interactive game session with the Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows on July 18. Suarez facilitated a series of activities with the Fellows designed to demonstrate the value of participatory games for contextualizing risk, probability, preparation, and […]
The Graduate Summer Fellows participated in the fifth faculty lunch discussion of the session on July 13 when they were joined by Henrik Selin, an associate professor of international relations and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. Prof. Selin spoke about his research on environmental politics, toxic chemicals, the […]
On July 12, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a group of students from the St. Paul’s School Advanced Studies Program for a conversation with Pardee Center Director Anthony Janetos about science, ethics, and climate change. Prof. Janetos presented the science and impacts of climate change, and the current and […]
On July 6, the 2017 Graduate Summer Fellows had a lunch discussion with Madhu Dutta-Koehler, an Associate Professor of Practice and the Director of the City Planning and Urban Affairs program, as well as a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. Prof. Dutta-Koehler spoke about her unique career […]
The 2017 Graduate Summer Fellows have reached the midpoint of the program at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and over the course of two days last week they presented their research progress to receive feedback from Pardee Center staff, post-docs, affiliated faculty, and their peers. On the first day of presentations, Jonathan […]
On June 22, the Graduate Summer Fellows had a lunch discussion with Joseph Harris, an assistant professor of Sociology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. Prof. Harris gave an overview of his research on the “social determinants of health” — such as class, […]
The Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows met with Faculty Research Fellow Kevin Gallagher over lunch on June 13. Prof. Gallagher talked about his research on international trade and investment agreements and global financial and environmental governance issues. He also discussed his career path from an undergraduate major in biology and political science to his current […]
On the second day of the program, the Graduate Summer Fellows at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future participated in a writing and communications workshop led by Director Anthony Janetos and Associate Director Cynthia Barakatt. Janetos and Barakatt began with an overview of the structure and objective of the research paper that […]
On May 30, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future welcomed its 2017 class of Graduate Summer Fellows. The eight Boston University graduate students, representing six different academic departments, will spend the next 10 weeks in residence at the Pardee House developing research papers on a wide range of topics for consideration in […]