Pardee Faculty Fellow Muhammad Zaman and Visiting Research Fellow Laura Ann Twigara will lead separate lunchtime “Global Conversations” as part of a program of activities organized by BU Global Programs to celebrate International Education Week (IEW), Nov. 12-16. On Thursday, Nov. 15, Prof. Zaman will lead a discussion on the topic of “The Role of […]
Pardee Visiting Research Fellow Janot Mendler de Suarez was one of a dozen multidisciplinary speakers featured at IDEAS Boston 2012, an annual “brainstorm” hosted by University of Massachusetts-Boston on October 24. Her talk, titled “Why Inhabiting the Complexity of an Uncertain Future can be Serious Fun!”, focused on her work with climate change games around the […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will host a special lunch seminar on Friday, November 9 from noon to 2 p.m. titled “Remittances and Development in Post-Conflict States” in connection with a task force of the same name organized by the BU Center for Finance, Law & Policy and […]
Frederick S. Pardee Faculty Fellow Muhammad Zaman was featured in Fall 2012 issue of Bostonia, the Boston University alumni magazine. The article titled Into Africa describes Prof. Zaman’s work with students developing an affordable tool to measure blood oxygen levels. The pulse oximeter is designed for rural health workers in Zambia to detect diseases like […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a student seminar and reception on October 22 titled “Young Asia: The Past and the Future” to kick off the Boston University Asian Film Week 2012. The seminar and film week are sponsored by the BU Center for the Study of Asia […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce a Pardee House Seminar titled, Shaping the Future of the Asia-Latin America Relationship, will be held on Tuesday, November 6. Economics Professor Enrique Dussel Peters of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Principal Economist Mauricio Mesquita Moreira of the Inter-American […]
The Pardee Center is co-sponsoring a student symposium titled, “Young Asia: The Past and the Future,” as a part of the BU Center for the Study of Asia Film Week. The symposium will be held at the Pardee Center at 67 Bay State Rd on October 22, 2012 from 4-6pm with a reception to follow and […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center welcomes Laura Ann Twagira as a Visiting Research Fellow for the fall semester. Ms. Twagira is currently a Ph.D. candidate in African History at Rutgers University and a Visiting Scholar at the African Studies Center at Boston University. She is currently researching food security in Mali. At the Pardee Center, […]
International climate change law and policy expert Prof. Joyeeta Gupta of VU University Amsterdam delivered a Pardee Center Lecture titled “Sustainable Development Governance: ‘Glocal’ Challenges and Opportunities” at the BU Castle on October 11. Along with the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, co-sponsors of the talk included the Boston University Earth and […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is hosting a meeting of the Pardee Center Task Force on Environmental Governance in and for the 21st Century on Oct. 11 and 12. Pardee Faculty Fellows Anne Short (Earth and Environment) and Henrik Selin (International Relations) are convening the 12-member group in […]