On Friday, February 25 2011, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the BU Department of Geography and Environment convened for the sixth Sawyer Seminar on Energy and Society. The session, entitled The Role of Energy in Avoiding Collapse, featured Joseph Tainter and Robert Kaufmann and was moderated by […]
On Monday, February 14, 2011, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held a lunch seminar on ‘What is Asia?’. Part of the ‘Pardee House Seminars’ series, the event featured Prof. David Eckel (BU Religion), Prof. Robert Hefner (BU Anthropology) and Prof. Eugenio Menegon (BU History), and was moderated by Prof. Adil Najam, Director […]
On Monday, January 31, 2011, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held a lunch seminar on ‘Global Philanthropy and Development’. Part of the ‘Pardee House Seminars’ series, the event featured Paula D. Johnson, John Hammock and Dr. Shamsh Kassim-Lakha, and was moderated by Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Pardee Center. Prof. Dr. Shamsh Kassim-Lakha […]
On Friday, January 28 2011, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the BU Department of Geography and Environment convened for the first of the Spring 2011 John Sawyer Seminars on Energy and Society. The session, entitled Energy Policy, featured Paul Sabin and Robert Lifset and was moderated by […]
The Report of the Pardee Center’s ‘Africa 2060: Good News from Africa’ conference was launched at a special Pardee House Seminar held on December 6, 2010. Panelists included Amb. Charles Stith, Director of the BU African Presidential Archives and Research Center (APARC); Prof. Timothy Longman, Director of the BU African Studies Center (ASC), and Dr. […]
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, […]
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 […]
On Monday, November 8, 2010, the John Sawyer Seminar on Energy Transitions and Society convened for its third meeting. The session entitled Energy and Development featured Joan Martínez -Alier and Paul Epstein, and was moderated by James McCann, professor of history at Boston University. Joan Martínez-Alier is a Professor at the Department of Economics and […]
Over a hundred people from across the Boston area gathered at Boston University on November 4, 2010, at a discussion on on the current situation with the devastating floods in Pakistan and the ongoing impacts of Haiti’s earthquake earlier this year, and in particular on the lessons that can be learnt from these two experiences […]
The Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year was the result of a system of “complacency, collusion and neglect” – the same factors that were responsible for the Exxon Valdez oil spill (EVOS) in Alaska’s Prince William Sound 21 years ago, according to Boston College Law Professor Zygmunt […]