The Pardee Center launches its new inter-disciplinary seminar series on key future challenges with a panel discussion on “Disease and Development” featuring BU professors Jim McCann (History), Randy Ellis (Economics), and Jerry Keusch (Public Health).
Prof. Adil Najam spoke at to a Group of 24 (G24) meeting at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Climate Change and the Development Agenda.
The Pardee Center Director spoke at a symposium on “Dispute Systems Design Across Contexts and Continents” organized by the Harvard Negotiation Law Review (HNLR).
Pardee Center Research Fellow published an op-ed on China and the future of Latin American Exports.
This Pardee Center conference brought together some 40 experts from various disciplines to ponder upon the great dilemma of how science, religion, and the human future interact.
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Longer-Range Future talks to the media on Fair Trade, on strategies to combat HIV-AIDS in South Asia, and on the future of Pakistan’s politics.
Prof. Adil Najam addressed a special preparatory meeting for the 2008 High-Level Segment of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in preparation of the 2008 Annual Ministerial Review (AMR) of Development Cooperation.
In this Pardee Distinguished Lecture, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann explains how theories of complexity can be applied to the social sciences, because cities, nation-states, etc., are complex adaptive systems.
Eminent physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson makes a case for the need for heretics to help keep our vision of the future open and offers heresies on such diverse topics as the United States’ status as top nation, global warming, and the end of Darwinian evolution.
This Pardee Center conference allowed for many highly esteemed scholars and professionals from a broad range of fields to come together to discuss strategies designed for the 21st century and beyond.