Pardee Research Fellow Prof. Henrik Selin is featued discussing the national security and human security implications of global climate change in a podcast recently produced and posted on You Tube by the Environmental Change and Security Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. In the podcast, Prof. Selin talks specifically about the rapid […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was invited to deliver a lecture in the Hamilton Hall Lecture Series in Salem, MA. Speaking on what was the 200th birthday celebration of Charles Darwin as well as Abraham Lincoln, Prof. Najam emphasized that both these men […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Story of the Longer-Range Future was one of the featured speakers at a regional conference on Global Climate Change in South Asia organized by the Ministry of Environment, Government of Pakistan and the World Conservation Union-IUCN. The conference was held in Islamabad, […]
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 […]
Moeed Yusuf’s paper titled ‘Predicting Proliferation: The History of the Future of Nuclear Weapons’ has just been published by the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. Moeed Yusuf is a Research Fellow at the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and author’s of the Pardee Center’s […]
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 […]
Pardee Reserach Fellow Henrik Selin participated in a panel discussion in Washington, D.C. on January 12 titled "Governing the Climate: Lessons from the National Conference on Climate Governance." The session was held at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and sponsored by the Center’s Canada Institute and Environmental Change and Security Program with support […]
Pardee Center Fellow Prof. Henrik Selin presented two papers at the National Conference on Climate Governance at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia on December 11 and 12, 2008. The conference examined the challenges facing the United States at a moment of historic transition in the federal government and enormous economic turbulence. […]
An international group of distinguished scholars came together to discuss the future China in terms of politics, religion, law, economics, energy, the environment and health care during an all-day conference on December 8 titled “Three Decades of Reform and Opening: Where is China Headed?” Sponsored by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of […]
Conference reports available here and here. Videos of conference panels and keynote address available here. An international group of distinguished China scholars will gather at Boston University in early December for a conference titled "Three Decades of Reform and Opening: Where is China Headed?" Sponsored by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of […]