On Thursday, September 9, 2010, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future launched its Fall 2010 Calendar of activities with a lunch seminar on ‘Accountability in Global Governance’. Part of the ‘Pardee House Seminars’ series and also also a part of the Pardee Center’s suite of activities of global governance, […]
As part of its South Asia 2060 project, the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future co-hosted a special high-level event and panel discussion on ‘Visions of a Region’s Future: South Asia 2060’ in Singapore . The event was held at the National Library of Singapore on August 12, […]
A reception in honor of the Planning Committee of The Millennium Project was held on the evening of July 6, 2010, at the Pardee House, Boston University. The reception was attended by nearly 60 contributors to The Millennium Project from across the world and by faculty and researchers from Boston University, including Pardee Center Summer […]
On Thursday, July 1, 2010, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held a lunch seminar on ‘Africa 2060 – Health & Development’. Part of the ‘Pardee House Seminars’ series, the event featured Prof. Astier M. Almedom, Dr. Alfredo Burlando, and Dr. Melissa Graboyes , and was moderated by Prof. […]
Dr. Rajan Gupta, a theoretical physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, gave a presentation titled Future Challenges of Global Energy Systems at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future lunch seminar on June 8. He was introduced by Prof. Adil Najam, Director, Pardee Center. Dr. Gupta spoke about the […]
The Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Sustainable Development Knowledge Partnership (SDKP) hosted a seminar at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on “Governance for Sustainable Development: Institutional Challenges for Rio+20” on Wednesday, May 12, 2010. Nearly 60 people attended in a packed conference room […]
Some thirty faculty members and researchers from all across Boston University – including the College of Arts and Sciences, School of Medicine, the School of Public Health, School of Engineering, College of Communication, School of Social Work, and the Metropolitan College – attended the Dialogue on “The University’s Role in Dealing with Disasters and Complex Human […]
Experts from a variety of disciplines met at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on April 30, 2010, to discuss the current best practice modalities for preventing and treating a host of communicable and non-communicable diseases and what explains variation in the implementation of the bio-medical knowledge. The workshop […]
The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Commission on Smart Global Health Policy, Boston University, and Harvard University, hosted a conference on the future of global health featuring Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Congressman Michael Capuano (D-MA), Boston University President Robert Brown, as well as top academics, industry leaders and student activists from the Boston […]
The Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held an all-day conference on ‘Good News from Africa’ as part of its Africa 2060 program of research. The conference was held on Friday, April 16, 2010 at the Boston Law School and brought together experts from a variety of fields […]