On Tuesday, November 15, 2011, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held a lunch seminar on ‘The Global Land Rush: The Future of Food, Fuel, and Agricultural Development”. Part of the ‘Pardee House Seminars’ series, the event featured Rachel Nalepa (BU Department of Geography and Environment), Sarah Philips (Department of History) and Mutlu Ozdogan […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University has published a new paper (No. 15) in The Pardee Papers series. The Future of Agriculture in Africa was written by 2010 Pardee Post-doctoral Fellow Julius Gatune Kariuki. The paper discusses the outlook for the future of agriculture in Africa […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold a Pardee House Seminar on Tuesday, November 15, 2011, on ‘The Global Land Rush: The Future of Food, Fuel, and Agricultural Development’. The seminar will feature Rachel Nalepa (BU Geography and Environment), Sarah Philips (BU Department of History) and Mutlu Ozdogan […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has published the report of the 2010 Pardee Center Task Force titled “Latin America 2060: Consolidation or Crisis?” The report will be officially launched at the annual meeting of the New England Council of Latin America Studies (NECLAS) on Saturday, November 5 at […]
Pardee Director, ad interim, Prof. James C. McCann and 2011 Pardee Summer Fellow Natalie Mettler, prepared dishes relating to African culture and discussed the relationship between food and the culture, history and national identity of Africans at Back to Class: Stirring the Pot: A History of African Cuisine on October 29, 2011. The event was […]
Pardee Center Director ad interim, Prof. James McCann and Pardee Center Faculty Fellow, Prof. Enrique Silva, attended the Global Health Summit on October 28, 2011.Organized by the Center for Global Health and Development (CGHD) at Boston University, the summit brought together experts in global and urban health from BU and from around the world to […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has released a new paper in its Issues in Brief series. Titled “Capital Account Regulations for Stability and Development: A New Approach,” the paper was co-authored by Pardee Faculty Fellow Prof. Kevin Gallagher with Stephany Griffith-Jones and and José Antonio Ocampo of Columbia […]
A new Issues in Brief (No. 21) published by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future examines the role of youth in “the Arab Spring” from the perspective of cultural, social, and market forces holding back a generation on the cusp of adulthood. “Adulthood Denied: Youth Dissatisfaction and the Arab […]
On Tuesday, October 18, 2011, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held a lunch seminar on ‘Invasive Species and Future Ecologies: Bugs, Viruses, Mussels, and Weeds”. Part of the ‘Pardee House Seminars’ series, the event featured Prof. Les Kaufman(BU Marine Program and Conservation International), Prof. Richard Pollack (BU Department of Biology) and Prof. […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow, Prof. Henrik Selin, has been appointed Book Review Editor for Environmental Policy for the Review of Policy Research journal. Henrik Selin is Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at Boston University, Faculty Fellow at the Pardee Center, and Visiting Scholar at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University.