Pardee Director ad interim, James McCann, is selected to give the annual Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Lecture in Environmental History at York University in Toronto, Canada on March 7, 2012. The title of his talk is, “Africa’s Malarial Landscapes: History, Complexity, and Silver Bullets.” It will begin at 4:30 in the Schulich School of Business Executive Dining room. […]
How Latin America will feel the effects of projected economic, social, and industrial changes in China was the topic of discussion at the monthly Pardee House Seminar at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on February 29. Titled “China’s New Five Year Plan: Implications for Latin America,” the seminar […]
The Director and two Faculty Fellows of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future participated in the closing panel of the Food and the City Conference at Boston University on Saturday, February 25. Titled “Food and the City: Issues on the Horizon,” the panel was chaired by Pardee Center Director […]
Watch this video on YouTube The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held the first Pardee House Seminar of the year on January 24, 2012 on ‘Future Roles of Universities Worldwide: Moving Beyond the Ivory Tower? The seminar was organized and moderated by Pardee Visiting Faculty Fellow Rob Hollister (Dept. […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold a Pardee House Seminar on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 titled “China’s New Five Year Plan: Implications for Latin America”. The seminar will feature Margret Myers, (Director of China and Latin American program, Inter-American Dialogue), Dr. Edward Cunningham, (Department of Geography and […]
On Saturday January 24 at 3:15 the Frederick S. Pardee Center is co-sponsoring the closing roundtable session for the two-day conference ‘Food and the City: Issues on the Horizon.’ Pardee director ad interim, Dr. James McCann will chair the roundtable event that will include comments by Pardee Faculty Fellows Dr. Sarah Philips, (History), Dr. Nathan […]
Pardee Post-Doctoral Fellowship for September 2012 or January 2013 Review of applications begins March 19, 2012 The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University invites applications for a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow for a year-long appointment, beginning in either September 2012 or January 2013. Researchers working on issues related […]
Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Dr. Muhammad Zaman wrote an op-ed on a grounds-up approach to tackling disease for the Huffington Post today. His piece is a reaction to the January 30th declaration made in London by Bill Gates, WHO, and a number of major pharmaceutical companies to eradicate ten diseases afflicting the world’s poor in […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is the lead organizer of the closing panel at the Food and the City Conference on February 24 and 25 sponsored by the Boston University History Department. The conference will take place at the BU Photonics Center, 8 St. Mary’s Street. Pardee Center […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has published a report of the Center’s 2011 conference Development That Works. The day-long conference took place on March 31, 2011 and was organized in collaboration with the BU Global Development program. The Pardee Center Conference Report features essays written by Boston University […]