Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of Geography and the Environment and Boston University gave the opening plenary address to the 10th Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change held at the Freie Universitat Berlin on October 8-9, 2010. […]
Renowned Indian social activist and danseuse Mallika Sarabhai will present a performance followed by a conversation on the role of the arts in bringing about social change. The public event will be held on Monday, October 18, 2010, at the Boston University College of Fine Arts (Room 500, 855 Commonwealth Ave.) from 2.00-3.15pm and will be […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Boston University Professor of International Relations and Geography and Environment, attended CIGI ’10, the annual conference of the Center for International Governance Innovation at Waterloo, Canada. This conference is the premier annual event for CIGI and brings […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Boston University Professor of International Relations and of Geography and Environment, was the keynote speaker at the Annual “Science Day” for researchers at the pharmaceuticals company, Vertex. Prof. Najam spoke to the gathering of nearly three hundred […]
The Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held an all-day conference on ‘The Future of South-South Economic Relations’ as part of its Africa 2060 program of research. The conference was held on Friday, September 25, 2010 at the Hariri Building (BU School of Management) and brought together experts from […]
Pardee House was the venue of an evening reception held in honor of the Boston University-University of Warwick partnership and of the participants of two related conferences: the Pardee Center conference on “The Future of South-South Economic Relations” and BU/Warwick conference on “Business and Government After the Crash.” In addition to the participants of the […]
The new book ‘China Today, China Tomorrow’ (2010; Rowman and Littlefield Publishers) – which is based on the papers originally presented at the December 2008 Pardee Center conference on the Future of China – was launched today with an impressive panel discussion featuring five of the chapter authors of the book, including Prof. Joseph Fewsmith, […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Boston University Professor of International Relations and of Geography and Environment and Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future, was quoted extensively in a detailed report in the magazine Nature (467, 378-379; September 2010) on the state of higher education in Pakistan (also see). […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Boston University Professor of International Relations and Geography and Environment has been in the international and Pakistan media on the recent floods in Pakistan (also see here, here and here). On September 15, Prof. Najam published an […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold an all-day public conference on “The Future of South-South Economic Relations” to be held on Friday, September 24, 2010. The conference will focus on the emerging trends in economic interaction amongst developing countries. The conference will bring leading scholars from the […]