Postdoctoral Fellow Rania Ghosn chaired a panel at the 99th Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate School of Architecture (ACSA) held March 3-6 in Montreal, Canada. The panel, entitled “Energy as Spatial Project,” addressed the central question: What potentialities do practices of architecture, urbanism, and landscape carry in embodying “alternative” energy spatialities? The session […]
Former Pardee Summer Fellow Stephanie Edwards will be presenting this week at the 2011 Mardi Gras Conference at Louisiana State University. The conference is hosted by the English Graduate Student Association under the theme “Echoes of Trauma: Exploring the Intersections of Trauma and Culture.” Ms. Edwards’ presentation is rooted in her research completed during her […]
The Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future published two new papers: the first is an issue brief (No. 20) on the role of art and the media in perceptions on climate change (see here); and the second is a Task Force Report on governance for a green economy […]
On Friday, February 25 2011, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the BU Department of Geography and Environment convened for the sixth Sawyer Seminar on Energy and Society. The session, entitled The Role of Energy in Avoiding Collapse, featured Joseph Tainter and Robert Kaufmann and was moderated by […]
Pardee Center Programs Manager Cynthia Barakatt attended the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) held February 17- 21 in Washington, D.C. The theme of the meeting was “Science Without Borders.” The AAAS annual meeting is one of the largest and best-known interdisciplinary scientific meetings and each year attracts thousands […]
Dr. Pablo Suarez’s, Pardee Visiting Fellow, review of the book Global Environmental Change and Human Security has been published in the latest issue of the journal Ecological Economics. The book was edited by R.A. Matthew, J. Barnett, B. McDonald and K.L. O’Brien and published by MIT Press. In his review, Dr. Suarez says that this volume […]
On Monday, February 14, 2011, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held a lunch seminar on ‘What is Asia?’. Part of the ‘Pardee House Seminars’ series, the event featured Prof. David Eckel (BU Religion), Prof. Robert Hefner (BU Anthropology) and Prof. Eugenio Menegon (BU History), and was moderated by Prof. Adil Najam, Director […]
Application deadline: Monday, February 28, 2011 The Frederick S Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Range Future seeks up to four research assistants for a short-term assignment related to our Development That Works conference on March 31, 2011. Candidates must be able to commit to attending the all-day conference on March 31 and […]
Pardee Center Post-doctoral Fellow Dr. Miquel Munoz authored a chapter in the Second Assessment Report of Climate Change in Catalonia, printed in Catalan in late 2010 and recently made available online. In his chapter, accessible here, Dr. Muñoz provides an overview of international negotiations on climate change, including: history of negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on […]
The International Relations department is organizing the First Annual Graduate Student Research Conference on February 18 – 19, 2011. The Frederick. S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, together with the BU Department of International Relations, the Center for International Relations, the BU Center for the Study of Asia, and the Graduate International […]