Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future gave a public lecture on “The Future of Democracy in the Muslim World” at Elmhurst College, Il,on April 13, 2008.
Prof. Adil Najam delivered the keynote address at the Williams College conference on Global Warming and Developing Countries: Coping with the Challenges, on April 10.
Pardee Center Research Fellow Kevin Gallagher spoke to the Group of 77 at the United Nations in New York on issues related to the future of the WTO.
Prof. Kevin Gallagher, a Pardee Center Research Fellow at Boston Univeristy says that “Congress is right to oppose trade deal with Colombia” in an op-ed for Reuters.
Pardee Center Director, Prof. Adil Najam, lectured on “Environment, Development and Security: The Case of Climate Change” at Qatar University in Doha, Qatar and at the Pakistan Academy of Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan.
The opening plenary of the Alliance for Global Sustainability’s annual meeting at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology featured a panel discussion on the Intergovernmental panel on Climate Change.
The Boston Globe calls Pardee Center Director, Prof. Adill Najam, “The Moderator” and describes him as a “Global Citizen” who has “gone from sharing a Nobel Prize to starting a blog where Pakistanis can share views peacefully.
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Boston University Pardee Center, was quoted in the New York Times and other media outlets on the brewing debate over just how much of the climate change problem can be addressed with existing technologies.
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future introduces the initial publication in a new series titled “Issues in Brief.”
The Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University becomes a content provider to the Encyclopedia of the Earth (EoE), and the first batch of Pardee Center material is now available at the EoE Portal.