Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future was featured in a special write-up about MIT Alumni in the MIT magazine, Technology Review. Prof. Najam, who is also a Professor of International Relations and of Geography and Environment at Boston University, holds three degrees […]
The Pardee Center, in collaboration with the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan co-sponsored its first seminar abroad. This seminar is part of the Center’s new initiative on Food and Sustainable Development, which is supported by the Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Food Quality (LNV). Video here. The seminar was titled Future Challenges: Food and […]
At the fourth and final Pardee House seminar of the semester, BU experts on Latin America from different disciplines came together to discuss why the “always promising” region has failed to live up to its potential for economic growth and development and how that might change in the future. A full house attended the lunchtime […]
Pardee Center Fellow Prof. Henrik Selin presented two papers at the National Conference on Climate Governance at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia on December 11 and 12, 2008. The conference examined the challenges facing the United States at a moment of historic transition in the federal government and enormous economic turbulence. […]
An international group of distinguished scholars came together to discuss the future China in terms of politics, religion, law, economics, energy, the environment and health care during an all-day conference on December 8 titled “Three Decades of Reform and Opening: Where is China Headed?” Sponsored by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of […]
Conference reports available here and here. Videos of conference panels and keynote address available here. An international group of distinguished China scholars will gather at Boston University in early December for a conference titled "Three Decades of Reform and Opening: Where is China Headed?" Sponsored by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is co-sponsoring its first “Pardee Seminar” to be held abroad. The seminar, on “Future Challenges: Food and Development”, will be hosted in collaboration with the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Pakistan’s leading think tank. It will take place on Monday, December 22, 2008 at […]
Pardee Center Director, Prof. Adil Najam, spoke to the student delegates from all over Europe at a special Model United Nations moot held at The Hague in the Netherlands. Organized by The European International Model United Nations (TEIMUN) this special event was held to mark the fact that in 2009, the Netherlands will be chairing […]
Pardee Center Visiting Fellow Pablo Suarez contributed to the climate change deliberations at the Unitied Nation’s Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties in Poznan, Poland in early December. At a session on climate risk insurance on December 8, Dr. Suarez was part of a panel with representatives of reinsurance giants SwissRe […]
As the keynote speaker at the December 8 conference, “Three Decades of Reform and Opening: Where is China Headed?”, former U.S. Ambassador to China Stapleton Roy said that 2009 will be a “defining moment in world affairs.” Although the global economic crisis is demanding a great deal of attention of the incoming administration of President-elect […]