The Pardee Center at Boston University will support the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative’s (OPHI’s) summer workshop on “Measuring Freedoms” on May 28-30, 2008. Pardee Center Research Fellow Sujata Visaria will attend the conference.
Pardee Center Director, Prof. Adil Najam, spoke at a conference on “Muslim Giving in America: Tradition, Law and Politics.”
A Centripetal Theory of Democratic Governance by Pardee Center Fellows Strom Thacker and John Gerring will be published by Cambridge University Press at the end of June.
Prof. Henrik Selin, a Research Fellow at the Pardee Center, recently contributed an entry on “Global Warming and Public Policy” to the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Boston University Pardee Center, spoke to a group of Ambassadors to the United Nations on “Climate Change, Development and Security” and then again at an event in the UN on “International Environmental Governance.”
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future gave a public lecture on “The Future of Democracy in the Muslim World” at Elmhurst College, Il,on April 13, 2008.
Prof. Adil Najam delivered the keynote address at the Williams College conference on Global Warming and Developing Countries: Coping with the Challenges, on April 10.
Pardee Center Research Fellow Kevin Gallagher spoke to the Group of 77 at the United Nations in New York on issues related to the future of the WTO.
Prof. Kevin Gallagher, a Pardee Center Research Fellow at Boston Univeristy says that “Congress is right to oppose trade deal with Colombia” in an op-ed for Reuters.
Pardee Center Director, Prof. Adil Najam, lectured on “Environment, Development and Security: The Case of Climate Change” at Qatar University in Doha, Qatar and at the Pakistan Academy of Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan.