Ahmet Selim Tekelioglu joins the Pardee Center as a graduate researcher working on post- structural International Relations theory, sociology of religion, and the role of ethnic/ religious identities in international politics. His doctoral project comparatively analyzes how the nature of discourses used regarding the increasing visibility of Islam in the European Union affects attitudes of […]
The Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held an all-day conference on ‘The Future of South-South Economic Relations’ as part of its Africa 2060 program of research. The conference was held on Friday, September 25, 2010 at the Hariri Building (BU School of Management) and brought together experts from […]
Pardee House was the venue of an evening reception held in honor of the Boston University-University of Warwick partnership and of the participants of two related conferences: the Pardee Center conference on “The Future of South-South Economic Relations” and BU/Warwick conference on “Business and Government After the Crash.” In addition to the participants of the […]
The new book ‘China Today, China Tomorrow’ (2010; Rowman and Littlefield Publishers) – which is based on the papers originally presented at the December 2008 Pardee Center conference on the Future of China – was launched today with an impressive panel discussion featuring five of the chapter authors of the book, including Prof. Joseph Fewsmith, […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Boston University Professor of International Relations and of Geography and Environment and Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future, was quoted extensively in a detailed report in the magazine Nature (467, 378-379; September 2010) on the state of higher education in Pakistan (also see). […]
On Monday, September 20, 2010, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Boston University Department of Geography and Environment launched the John Sawyer Seminars on Energy Transitions and Society, with the first session focusing on ‘Overview of Energy Transitions,’ and featuring Prof. Martin Melosi, Prof. Bruce Podobnik, and […]
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 has been in the international and Pakistan media on the recent floods in Pakistan (also see here, here and here). On September 15, Prof. Najam published an […]
From 29 November to 10 December 2010 the United Nations Climate Change Conference will be held in Cancun, Mexico. The Conference will include the 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 16) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and associated meetings COM/MOP 6, SBSTA 33, SBI 33, AWG-LCA 13 […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold an all-day public conference on “The Future of South-South Economic Relations” to be held on Friday, September 24, 2010. The conference will focus on the emerging trends in economic interaction amongst developing countries. The conference will bring leading scholars from the […]
Dr. Athar Osama, a Visiting Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has just launched a new column on SciDev.Net, the Science and Development Network, called “Islam Analysis.” His first column in the new series is titled “Promoting Scientific Collaboration,” and reviews the state of scientific cooperation in […]