On Thursday, December 15, 2011, Dr. William R. Jobin delivered the annual Pardee Distinguished Lecture sponsored by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at the Boston University. Students and faculty from BU and elsewhere filled the room for the lecture, which was held at BU’s Hillel House. Dr. Jobin […]
Alejandro Avenburg, a 2011 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has been selected to present his paper, “Corruption, Accountability, and Citizen Participation in Protests in Latin America,” at the 2012 Midwest Political Science Association Conference in Chicago next April. Avenburg’s paper is based on research he […]
On Thursday, December 15, 2011, Dr. William R. Jobin delivered the annual Pardee Distinguished Lecture sponsored by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at the Boston University. Students and faculty from BU and elsewhere filled the room for the lecture, which was held at BU’s Hillel House. Dr. Jobin […]
Dr. Miquel Munoz, post-doctoral fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center For the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was invited as a keynote speaker to discuss system-wide strategies and frameworks at an event on International Environmental Governance organized by the Nordic Council of Ministers. The event, held at the International Peace Institute in New York, in the […]
James McCann, Professor of History and Director, ad interim at the Frederick S. Pardee Center, was interviewed about Africa’s rich food history by Jerome McDonnell for Worldview on WBEZ, the public radio station in Chicago. The interview is part of the occasional Food Mondays series. McCann is the author of Stirring the Pot: A History […]
Dr. Suranjana Nabar-Bhaduri, a scholar of development economics and the Indian economy, recently joined the Pardee Center as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. She is currently working on a policy brief for Pardee Center on the effects of liberalizing economies to external markets while minimizing state intervention in the developing world. Her research interests include the development […]
Pablo Suarez, a visiting post-doc fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center, is receiving media attention for his innovative approach to climate change impacts. Reporters from Reuters caught up with Suarez at a global climate summit in Durban, South Africa. Suarez, related his inspiration for his latest initiative for educating communities. After finding PowerPoint presentations […]
The Pardee Center at Boston University will co-organize a side event titled “Achieving Implementation – Accountability, Engagement, and Multi-Stakeholder Cooperation” to be held at the United Nations in New York on December 16, 2011, at the Second Intersessional Meeting for the forthcoming 2012 Rio+20 conference (the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development). The event is co-organized […]
Kevin Gallager, Pardee Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor of international relations at Boston University, published an op-ed on developing countries use of capital controls in The Guardian (November 29, 2011). In the op-ed, titled “The IMF Must Heed G20 Decisions,” Prof. Gallagher argues: “The IMF should not ignore the G20’s direction on capital flows. Rather than […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce that the next Frederick S. Pardee Distinguished Lecture will be delivered on Thursday, December 15 by Dr. William R. Jobin, Founder of Blue Nile Associates. Date: Thursday, December 15 Location: Florence and Chafetz Hillel House, 213 Bay State Road, […]