Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future

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Pardee House Events

06/05/09 (F): Seminar:
Governance and Sustainability
05/23/09 (S): Workshop:
Measuring Democracy
05/11/09 (M): Seminar:
Food & Sustainable Development
04/28/09 (Tu): Seminar:
Can We Afford the Future?

03/20/09 (F): Workshop:
The Future of NAFTA
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03/19/09 (Th): Workshop:
'Sustainability' & the university
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03/06/09 (F): Seminar:
Energy & Environment: China
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Our People:James McCann James McCann James McCann is a Professor of History and Pardee Center Faculty Fellow specializing in the agro-ecological history of Africa.

Our Library:3 New Papers on Food Three new Issues in Brief on Food and Development by Kati Kulovesi, Frances Moore Lappe and Abid Qaiyum Suleri published as part of a project on Food and Development.

Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future

Pardee Distinguished Lecture: Prof. Simon Levin2009 Pardee Summer Graduate Fellows Seven outstanding graduate students from across BU start their fellowships at the Pardee Center on June 1. The Fellows were selected from a pool of over 50 applicants. They come from the Departments of Anthropology, Economics, International Relations, and the School of Public Health.

Pardee Seminar: Governance and SustainabilityPardee House Seminar on Governance & Sustainability, June 5, 2009 A special summer Pardee House Seminar on June 5, 2009, looked at the future challenges on Global Governance and Sustainability. The seminar featured Hans Hoogeveen (on forests) , Abid Suleri (on food) and Mukul Sanwal (on climate).

Pardee Center Conference on Measuring DemocracyPardee Center Conference on Measuring DemocracySupported via the Clinton Global Initiative, a Pardee Center research conference on measuring democracy brought together leading scholars of the subject to Boston University for a project that seeks to develop better measures of democracy.