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The Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University Celebrates Convocation
The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, one of the nation’s newest schools of international relations and international affairs, celebrated its first convocation on May 16, 2015. Visit www.bu.edu/pardeeschool to [...]learn more.
More than 200 BA and MA degrees were awarded at the ceremony, along with multiple prizes for students and faculty members, including awards in undergraduate and graduate academic excellence.
The Pardee School is now home to Boston University’s long-established International Relations program and a range of programs and centers of area and thematic studies. These include the African Studies Center, the Latin American Studies Program, the Center for the Study of Asia, the Center for the Study of Europe, the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies & Civilizations, the Middle East & North Africa Studies Program and the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs.
In 2014, the Pardee School opened its doors to nearly 1,000 students in nine graduate degree programs, two graduate certificates, five undergraduate majors and eight undergraduate minors. The 2015 graduating class is the first to walk under the Pardee School banner, but they join an illustrious community. The programs that are now part of the Pardee School of Global Studies have produced nearly 9,000 Pardee School alumni, who can be found around the world and are already making a global impact.
The Pardee School offers generous financial assistance and opportunities for study abroad and student-directed research. Learn more at www.bu.edu/pardeeschool.
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Body Language: AFRITHMS
The student dance troupe AFRITHMS brings a little bit of Africa to the BU community.
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Dean Elmore Chats With Margie Dillenburg About KONY 2012
Dean Elmore chats with Margie Dillenburg, who has served as Chief Operating Officer for Invisible Children. Invisible Children launched the KONY 2012 video and initiative on March 5, 2012.
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Spiritually Charged Art That Heals
Images from Sherman Gallery's current exhibition by Senegalese artist, Yelimane Fall entitled "Yelimane Fall: African Calligraphy in Action."
Read the full story on BU Today: http://www.bu.edu/today/2011/yelimane-fall/
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25 Years of Caversham Press
South Africa: Artists, Prints, Community, Twenty-Five Years at the Caversham Press runs through March 27 at the 808 Gallery. Simultaneously, Three Artists at the Caversham Press—Deborah Bell, Robert Hodgins and William Kentridge is on display [...]at the BU Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery.
Read the story on BU Today:
http://www.bu.edu/today/node/12269
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2015 Pardee Distinguished Lecture Featuring Calestous Juma
Calestous Juma, an internationally recognized authority on the role of science, technology, engineering and innovation in sustainable development, delivered the 2015 Pardee Distinguished Lecture sponsored by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the [...]Study of the Longer-Range Future on April 14. Prof. Juma, Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project and Professor of the Practice of International Development (on leave) at the Harvard Kennedy School, presented an address titled “Technological Innovation and Development: Long-Range Perspectives for Africa.â€
April 14, 2015
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The State of Africa
Ambassador Charles Stith, director of the African Presidential Archives & Research Center (APARC) and former US ambassador to Tanzania, along with a panel of US Ambassadors to African states, come together for the debut of the annual "State of [...]Africa" report.
Hosted by the African Presidential Archives & Research Center (APARC) and the BU Alumni Association on January 27, 2012.
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Can Africa Feed Itself?
Does Africa have the potential to feed itself? Yes, and in the near future, says Bingu wa Mutharika, president of Malawi and current interim chair of the African Union.
“Africa is not poor,†says Mutharika, who has been Malawi’s [...]president since 2004 and has a degree in economics. The continent, he says, “has decided to shift from Afro-pessimism to Afro-optimism.â€
The president of the southeastern African nation outlines a strategy incorporating subsidies to small—especially women—farmers, improvements in irrigation, distribution of sturdy hybrid seeds, building and upgrading of roads, a push toward alternative clean energy sources such as wind and solar, an increased continent-wide investment in communications technology, and the establishment of a strategic partnership comprising nations such as Uganda, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Zimbabwe, countries that Mutharika cites as having “track records of achievement in promoting agriculture and food security.â€
Hosted by the African Presidential Archives & Research Center (APARC) on October 1, 2010.
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Working from the ground up: Adam Peltz (‘11) helps build community radio station
Adam Peltz (LAW ‘11) spent his summer in 2009 interning at the Legal Resources Center, a legal NGO based in Accra, Ghana. There he worked on a UN-funded Right-to-Media project. He funded his trip with a Public Interest Project (PIP) grant.
[...]“What we did was a very early stage of getting together maybe 50 people in the community to talk about what’s entailed in getting a community radio station,†says Peltz. The tasks, he says, included, “Working from the ground up, getting a building, getting land, buying equipment, and determining what sort of programming the community might be interested in having.â€
Peltz is confident in the future of the station: “Over the two weeks people started to understand exactly what we were there for and started to take ownership of the station...it's going apace and hopefully it'll be online within the next 18 months."
-Reported and produced by Nora Dunne
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