Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Kevin P. Gallagher presented a paper on September 26 at the Hyman Minsky conference on “Global Financial Reform: Five Years After the Crisis,” held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Prof. Gallagher’s talk was titled “Regulating Capital Flows: Is the ‘System’ Working?” and was based on two Pardee Task Force Reports on […]
The Pardee Center and Boston University’s Center for Finance, Law & Policy are co-sponsoring a talk by the head of the central bank of Bangladesh on Thursday, Oct. 10 to mark the release of the new Pardee Center Task Force Report titled Remittance Flows to Post-Conflict States: Perspectives on Human Security and Development. The talk […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has published a new paper in the Issues in Brief series. “The Minamata Convention and the Future of Mercury Abatement” was written by Pardee Faculty Fellow Henrik Selin, an expert on global environmental governance issues who has been closely following the negotiations leading […]
2013 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellow Benjamin Twagira has won a research grant from the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program, administered by the U.S. Department of Education. Twagira, a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Boston University, conducts research on the history of cities in Africa. The award will fund his field research […]
The Boston University Global Economic Governance Initiative is co-sponsoring a two-day workshop with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva, Switzerland on Oct 3 and 4. The workshop will bring together policymakers, negotiators, and experts on cross-border financial regulations to assess the rationale and proper use of cross-border financial regulations in developing […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a reception on September 17 to welcome the Center’s new Director, Prof. Anthony Janetos. Approximately 40 Boston University faculty and administrators along with faculty from neighboring universities came to meet Prof. Janetos and welcome him to his new post. Prof. Janetos joined […]
Faculty Fellow Enrique Silva recently authored a journal article titled, Managing the citizen: privatized public works and the bureaucratic management of citizenship in post-authoritarian Chile, 1990–2005 in an issue of Citizenship Studies. Prof. Silva a native of Chile, writes about the construct of urban citizenship in Chile in the early 1990s. Enrique is a contributor […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Nathan Phillips was featured on a September 11th episode of the local Boston TV News Magazine, Chronicle on Ch. 5 WCVB. Prof. Phillips explains how roof space can be utilized to measure carbon dioxide and to promote sustainability. Prof. Phillips is the Principal Coordinator for the Pardee Center’s Urban Century Research Initiative.
Faculty, staff, and graduate students who work on Boston University’s Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) met on Sept. 6 at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future to discuss upcoming events and publications, and the launch of initiative’s new website. GEGI is a joint research program of the Pardee Center, […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Kevin Gallagher is the author of a new book, The Clash of Globalizations: Essays on the Political Economy of Trade and Development, published by Anthem Press (July 2013). In this collection of essays, Prof. Gallager writes about how the global trading regime reduces the ability of nation-states to pursue financial stability and […]