The next Pardee House Seminar – the first of the academic year 2008-09 – will be held on September 22, 2008 at the Pardee House (67 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215), on “Future Challenges: Beyond the Energy Crisis.” The lunch seminar will feature Prof. Cutler Cleveland, Prof. Uday Pal and Moeed Yusuf, who will […]
The second edition of China Since Tianamen: From Deng Xiaoping to Hu Jinto by Pardee Center Research Fellow Joseph Fewsmith has been published by Cambridge University Press. Part of the Cambridge Modern China Series, the book provides an analysis of the changes in politics and society in China since the Tianamen Square crackdown in 1989. […]
Pardee Center Visiting Fellow Pablo Suarez gave a presentation before the U.S. Congress’ Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming on Tuesday, July 22. During the briefing on global health and climate change at the Capitol building, Suarez discussed the humanitarian dimensions of the climate crisis based on his experiences working with Oxfam America […]
Pardee Center Research Fellow Kevin P. Gallagher has accepted an offer to serve as a monthly columnist for The Guardian (UK) newspaper, where he will write on globalization and development. The paper was founded in 1821 and receives approximately 3 million visitors to its web page each day and has 1.2 million print subscribers. His […]
Seven Pardee Fellows gathered at the Pardee House on August 4 for the first in a series of informal meetings in which they will discuss their research and share ideas. Post-doctoral Fellow Alexandra Crampton and Visiting Fellows Pablo Suarez and Roshan Mailk joined Graduate Fellows Grant Marlier, Rachel Thrasher, Jordan Winkler and Moeed Yusuf to […]
Pardee Center Research Fellow Kevin Gallagher has written two op-ed pieces that have appeared recently in the on-line version of The Guardian. In the July 8 issue, in an opinion piece titled "Free Trade’s “false promises” he cautions that NAFTA has not delieved its promised prosperity to Mexico and that the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement "seems to […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future presented a keynote address to the nearly 20,000 participants of the 91st International Convention of the Lion’s Club, in Bangkok, Thailand.
Pardee Center Research Fellow Kevin P. Gallagher co-chaired a new report on the economics and environmental impacts of foreign investment in Latin America. The report was co-sponsored by the Pardee Center.
More than 50 students and faculty crowded into the third-floor conference room at the Pardee House on Monday, March 24 for the inaugural Pardee Center “Future Challenges” lunch seminar, co-sponsored by BU African Studies Center, the BU Global Health Initiative and the BU Institute for Economic Development. Titled “Disease and Development” the seminar panel featured […]
Inequity in the distribution of wealth both within countries and among them and the need to support local economies “at the bottom of the pyramid” were recurring themes in a conversation about trade and development at the Pardee Center’s “Future Challenges” seminar on April 7. Thirty people participated in the second lunch time seminar in […]