Pardee fellow Pablo Suarez will appear in a documentary on geoengineering that premieres on November 25 at 9pm on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) News Channel. The film, entitled “Playing God with Planet Earth?”, explores the last ditch efforts of scientists and engineers trying to avert a planetary meltdown through solar radiation management and other techniques […]
The Pardee Center has recently published the conference report for the conference “Africa 2060: Good News from Africa”. As the capstone event of a research program called “Africa 2060”, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future at Boston University convened a conference on April 16, 2010 called “Africa 2060: […]
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 […]
A delegation of University Vice Chancellors and other leaders in Higher Education management from Pakistan visited the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on Thursday, November 18, 2010. The delegation, which includes Vice Chancellors and leaders from ten Pakistani universities are on a two-week study tour of the […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Boston University Professor of International Relations and Geography and Environment, attended a consultation organized by the U.S. State Department on higher education in Pakistan on behalf of the Boston University President. The consultations were held in Washington […]
The Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Boston University Latin America Studies Program (BU LAS) will hold a conference on Latin America 2060 at Boston University on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010. The project is part of the Task Force on Latin America 2060 that has been […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Boston University Professor of International Relations and Geography and Environment, was invited to participate in a global consultation on International Environmental Governance organized by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Geneva, Switzerland, on 8-9 November, 2010. The […]
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 […]
Pardee Fellow Pablo Suarez was invited to give the keynote speech in Guadalajara, Mexico during an award ceremony at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente. On November 5th Dr. Suarez addressed the role of university students in the future of humanitarian work, and then joined the provost and other university authorities in […]
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 […]