Moeed Yusuf, Graduate Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future participated in a simulation exercise designed to gauge the potential for future tensions, and perhaps conflict, between India and Pakistan. The event was held in Washington, D.C. on November 6-7, 2008. The workshop brought together renowned Pakistani, […]
The next Pardee House Seminar will be held on Monday, November 3, 2008 at the Pardee House (67 Bay State Road, Boston, MA), on “Future Challenges: Technology and Development.” The lunch seminar will feature Ahmed Hashmi (Vice President, Group Research and Technology, BP, UK), Prof. Dilip Mookherjee (Department of Economics, Boston University), and Dr. Ashley […]
Professor Simon Levin, the Moffett Professor of Biology at Princeton University and the Director of Princeton’s Center for BioComplexity, will deliver the 2008 Frederick S. Pardee Distinguished Lectures. The first lecture will be on "Cooperation and Collective Behavior: From Bacteria to the Global Commons," at 5PM on Monday, October 27, at the 9th Floor Metcalf Trustee Ballroom at […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future was one amongst a number of co-sponsors of a conference on entrepreneurship, with a special focus on developing countries held at Boston University on October 18, 2008. The conference marked the 10th Anniversary of OPEN – The Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs of North […]
Professor Simon A. Levin, the Moffett Professor of Biology at Princeton University and the Director of Princeton’s Center for BioComplexity, delivered his first Frederick S. Pardee Distinguished Lecture today. The lecture made a strong case for new global institutions that can serve as mechanisms of mutual trust and cooperation. According to Professor Levin, these will be […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has just released two new policy papers in its series, Issues in Brief. The first of these, number three in the Issues in Brief series, is titled The Future of Space Exploration: The Next 50 Years and is written by Prof. Supriya Chakrabarti […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future releases the second monograph in its Pardee Papers series. The paper, written by Pardee Center Fellows Rachel Denae Thraher and Kevin Gallagher is titled ’21st Century Trade Agreements: Implications for Long-Run Development Policy’ and examines the extent to which the emerging world trading […]
Dr. Alexandra Crampton, a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future presented her Pardee Center research on global aging trends at the Social Welfare Analysis Colloquium at the Boston University School of Social Work. Dr. Crampton’s presentation on “Global Aging Trends: Development Success, Policy Crisis, and […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Frederick S. Pardee Professor of Global Public Policy at Boston University and the Director of BU’s Frederick S.Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future gave a series of presentations this week at Brandeis University (Waltham, MA), Rice University (Houston, TX) and at the Santa Fe Council on International Relations […]
Prof. David Fromkin, the founding Director of Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and author of the highly acclaimed The Peace to End All Peace and many other books, has just published his latest book “The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh: The Secret […]