On Friday, June 5, 2009, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held a lunch seminar on ‘Future Challenges: Governance and Sustainability.‘ The seminar featured Hans Hoogeveen, Abid Suleri, and Mukul Sanwal, and moderated by Prof. Adil Najam, Director, Pardee Center. Hans Hoogeveen is the Director General for International Affairs […]
A Pardee Center Research Conference on “Measuring Democracy: A Multidimensional, History Approach” was held at Boston University on May 23 and 24. The conference is supported by the Pardee Center and a Clinton Global Initiative grant from Kirk Radke. The conference is part of the larger Pardee Center research program on Governance in the Developing […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held a special seminar on “Food and Sustainable Development” as an official side-event at the 17th Meeting of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UN CSD) at the UN heaquarters in New York. The event, and the larger project on Food and […]
Experts from Canada, Mexico, and the United States convened at the Pardee Center on March 20 to discuss The Future of NAFTA. NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement) was designed to be permanent, but the election of US President Barack Obama, who pledged to assess the impacts of NAFTA, has galvanized thinking about what the […]
Economist Frank Ackerman of Tufts University discussed his recent book Can We Afford the Future? The Economics of a Warming World at a lunch seminar at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on April 28. Approximately 35 people attended the talk, which was moderated by Prof. Kevin Gallagher, an […]
A small group of faculty and administrators from Boston University and other Boston-area universities participated in a workshop on March 19 about how the concept of sustainability might be incorporated into the curriculum, research programs and daily operations at universities. Sustainability is a challenge that is already a defining concern of our times and is […]
On March 6th, 2009, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held a seminar on ‘Energy and Environment: How is China Responding’. The seminar was part of the Pardee Center’s ongoing discussion on the future of China following the conference on China’s future held last December. The seminar featured a […]
A panel of experts discussed the merits and challenges of using microfinance tools as a means of assisting poor farmers in developing countries during the first Pardee House seminar of the new semester on January 21 (video here). This seminar was the second in a series of seminars related to food and development organized by […]
The Pardee Center, in collaboration with the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan co-sponsored its first seminar abroad. This seminar is part of the Center’s new initiative on Food and Sustainable Development, which is supported by the Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Food Quality (LNV). Video here. The seminar was titled Future Challenges: Food and […]
At the fourth and final Pardee House seminar of the semester, BU experts on Latin America from different disciplines came together to discuss why the “always promising” region has failed to live up to its potential for economic growth and development and how that might change in the future. A full house attended the lunchtime […]