Category: 2010

Pardee Center Featured in BU’s “Research 2010” Magazine

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has been highlighted as one of the feature stories in the 2010 edition of the Research at Boston University 2010 magazine. The Pardee Center has also featured in the magazine in earlier years, including most recently in the 2008 edition. The write-up, titled […]

Experts Discuss ‘The Business of Energy’ at 4th Sawyer Seminar

On Friday, December 3, 2010, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the BU Department of Geography and Environment convened for the last Sawyer Seminar on Energy Transitions of the fall semester. The session, entitled The Business of Energy, featured Joseph Pratt, Martha Amram, and Paul McManus. Joseph Pratt, […]

Prof. Najam Speaks at Harvard Event on Jinnah’s Anniversary

Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Boston University Professor of International Relations and of Geography and Environment, joined Prof. Akbar Ahmed, the Ibn-i-Khuldun Chair at American University and one of the leading experts on Islam in America as well as on Pakistan’s founding […]

Prof. Adil Najam Interviewed on WikiLeaks

On November 30, 2010, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University, Prof. Adil Najam, was interviewed by Boston’s Fox25 Television Channel on the global implications of the release of some 250,000 classified diplomatic documents by whistle-blower website WikiLeaks. Prof. Najam suggested that more important […]

Pardee Center Director Speaks to The Economist on Prospects for Cancun

Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Boston University Professor of International Relations and of Geography and the Environment, was interviewed by The Economist for a special pre-Cancun analysis of global climate change negotiations (click on image below to hear the interview). Prof. […]

Pardee Fellow Featured in Documentary

Pardee fellow Pablo Suarez will appear in a documentary on geoengineering that premieres on November 25 at 9pm on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) News Channel. The film, entitled “Playing God with Planet Earth?”, explores the last ditch efforts of scientists and engineers trying to avert a planetary meltdown through solar radiation management and other techniques […]

Pardee Center Publishes Conference Report on Africa 2060

The Pardee Center has recently published the conference report for the conference “Africa 2060: Good News from Africa”. As the capstone event of a research program called “Africa 2060”, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future at Boston University convened a conference on April 16, 2010 called “Africa 2060: […]

Latin America 2060: Pardee Center Hosts Symposium and Task Force Meeting

The Task Force on Latin America 2060 – convened by the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future in collaboration with the BU Latin American Studies Program – met at Boston University on November 18-19, 2010. On Thursday, November 18, 2010, a public symposium was held where the Task Force […]

Delegation of Higher Education Leaders from Pakistan Visit Pardee Center

A delegation of University Vice Chancellors and other leaders in Higher Education management from Pakistan visited the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on Thursday, November 18, 2010. The delegation, which includes Vice Chancellors and leaders from ten Pakistani universities are on a two-week study tour of the […]