Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University, was one of two speakers at a seminar on "Positioning the United Nations to Manage Critical Global Challenges Amidst Changing World Politics" organized by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the Ralph Bunche Institute for International […]
Pardee Center Director, Prof. Adil Najam, was the keynote speaker at a University of Virginia Symposium on "Climate Change and Health." In his keynote presentation Prof. Najam highlighted the linkages between health and climate change but, more broadly, between a host of related development issues. He argued that the nature of the great challenges facing […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston Univeristy, spoke at a special Congressional Forum on the Future of Afghanistan. As part of the Congressional Progressive Caucus’ (CPC) "Seeking Global Security project", CPC Co-Chair Rep. Raul M. Grijalva called for a series of six […]
Pardee Research Fellow Moeed Yusuf has received an Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award for 2008-2009 from Boston University. He will be among other award winners honored at a reception at BU’s College of Arts and Sciences on April 30. Yusuf, a Teaching Fellow and doctoral candidate in BU’s Political Science Department, has taught Introduction to International […]
Moeed Yusuf, Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, presented his Pardee Center publication Does Nuclear Energy Have a Future? (Pardee Paper No. 3) at the 58th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs in The Hauge, Netherlands on April 18. The annual conference, this year titled “Justice, […]
A small group of faculty and administrators from Boston University and other Boston-area universities participated in a workshop on March 19 about how the concept of sustainability might be incorporated into the curriculum, research programs and daily operations at universities. Sustainability is a challenge that is already a defining concern of our times and is […]
The Graduate International Relations Council (GIRC) of the Department of International Relations at Boston University organized a panel discussion on Where Does the Environment ‘Fit-in’ During the ‘Global Recession’? on April 16, 2009 at the Boston University Department of International Relations. The panel comprised of Pardee Center Director Prof. Adil Najam, Pardee Center Research Fellow […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold a lunch seminar on ‘Can We Afford The Future?’ featuring Dr. Frank Ackerman from Tufts University who will talk about his book by the same name. The Seminar will be moderated by Prof. Kevin Gallagher, from Boston University’s Department of International […]
Seven graduate students from across Boston University have been named Pardee Summer Graduate Fellows for 2009. They will spend the summer conducting research at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and participate in a cross-disciplinary program of research on longer-range challenges related to human well-being. Selected from a pool […]
Professor Robert Costanza, co-author of Beyond GDP: The Need for New Measures of Progress, which is paper No. 4 in The Padee Papers series, was the guest at a lunch with a group of Boston University faculty at Pardee House on April 8. Costanza, Gund Professor of Ecological Economics and Director of the Gund Institute […]