A small group of faculty and administrators from Boston University and other Boston-area universities participated in a workshop on March 19 about how the concept of sustainability might be incorporated into the curriculum, research programs and daily operations at universities. Sustainability is a challenge that is already a defining concern of our times and is […]
The Graduate International Relations Council (GIRC) of the Department of International Relations at Boston University organized a panel discussion on Where Does the Environment ‘Fit-in’ During the ‘Global Recession’? on April 16, 2009 at the Boston University Department of International Relations. The panel comprised of Pardee Center Director Prof. Adil Najam, Pardee Center Research Fellow […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold a lunch seminar on ‘Can We Afford The Future?’ featuring Dr. Frank Ackerman from Tufts University who will talk about his book by the same name. The Seminar will be moderated by Prof. Kevin Gallagher, from Boston University’s Department of International […]
Seven graduate students from across Boston University have been named Pardee Summer Graduate Fellows for 2009. They will spend the summer conducting research at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and participate in a cross-disciplinary program of research on longer-range challenges related to human well-being. Selected from a pool […]
Professor Robert Costanza, co-author of Beyond GDP: The Need for New Measures of Progress, which is paper No. 4 in The Padee Papers series, was the guest at a lunch with a group of Boston University faculty at Pardee House on April 8. Costanza, Gund Professor of Ecological Economics and Director of the Gund Institute […]
Pardee Center Director, Prof. Adil Najam, spoke on multiple panels at an India-Pakistan Peace Conference held at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. The Indo-Pak Peace Conference, which took place at McGill University in Montreal, Canada on the 27th and 28th of March 2009, was a joint effort of the Pakistani Students’ Association and the Indian Student’s […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future, was one of the panelists at a discussion forum on U.S-Muslim World relations held at the Harvard law School. The Panel was organized by the Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School and moderated by […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, spoke to the World Affairs Council of Rhode Island on the great challenges facing Afghanistan and Pakistan in the context of the Global War on Terror. The talk was part of the Distinguished Lecture and Dinner Program of […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University, presented a keynote address to the 94th Annual Conference of the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA), held at Boston. UCEA members include public and private accredited, degree-granting colleges and universities, international universities, and nonprofit organizations […]
Pardee Center Research Fellow Cutler Cleveland participated in a plenary panel at the Inaugural National Symposium on Food Systems and Sustainability at the University of California, Davis on March 24. The Symposium was sponsored by the Agricultural Sustainability Institute at UC Davis with major funding from the W.K Kellogg Foundation. Professor Cleveland, an energy expert […]