The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce a Pardee House Seminar titled, Shaping the Future of the Asia-Latin America Relationship, will be held on Tuesday, November 6. Economics Professor Enrique Dussel Peters of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Principal Economist Mauricio Mesquita Moreira of the Inter-American […]
The Pardee Center is co-sponsoring a student symposium titled, “Young Asia: The Past and the Future,” as a part of the BU Center for the Study of Asia Film Week. The symposium will be held at the Pardee Center at 67 Bay State Rd on October 22, 2012 from 4-6pm with a reception to follow and […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center welcomes Laura Ann Twagira as a Visiting Research Fellow for the fall semester. Ms. Twagira is currently a Ph.D. candidate in African History at Rutgers University and a Visiting Scholar at the African Studies Center at Boston University. She is currently researching food security in Mali. At the Pardee Center, […]
International climate change law and policy expert Prof. Joyeeta Gupta of VU University Amsterdam delivered a Pardee Center Lecture titled “Sustainable Development Governance: ‘Glocal’ Challenges and Opportunities” at the BU Castle on October 11. Along with the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, co-sponsors of the talk included the Boston University Earth and […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is hosting a meeting of the Pardee Center Task Force on Environmental Governance in and for the 21st Century on Oct. 11 and 12. Pardee Faculty Fellows Anne Short (Earth and Environment) and Henrik Selin (International Relations) are convening the 12-member group in […]
Pardee Center Associate Director Cynthia Barakatt was an invited speaker at the October 1 inaugural meeting of the Boston University graduate student group Advocates for Literacy in Environmental Science (ALES). ALES is a forum where graduate students actively engage in a cross-disciplinary dialogue to foster the interpretation, communication and development of policy-relevant environmental research. The […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a lunch meeting on Oct. 4 for Pardee-affiliated faculty with Prof. Xiangrong Wang, Director of the Center for Urban Eco-Planning and Design at Fudan University in Shanghai. Prof. Wang talked about his Center’s work, which is using sophisticated modeling tools to compare […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Kevin Gallagher wrote a piece for Al Jazeera titled, “Trade rules should not constrain fixing global finance,” about the emerging market and developing countries world trade policy the World Trade Organization is set to review this week. Prof. Gallagher argues a decision on the relationship between recent financial regulatory reforms and global trade rules […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is sponsoring a lecture by international climate change policy and law expert Prof. Joyeeta Gupta of VU University Amsterdam on Thursday, Oct. 11 beginning at 5 p.m. at The Castle. Titled “Sustainable Development Governance: ‘Glocal’ Challenges and Opportunities,” the lecture is co-sponsored by […]
Experts discussed the future of economic development in Brazil, China, and India at a seminar at the Frederick. S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on September 26. Titled “Beyond GDP in Brazil, India, and China: Prospects for Long-Run Development,” the seminar featured Prof. Cornel Ban (International Relations), Prof. Min Ye (International […]