James McCann, Professor of History and Director, ad interim at the Frederick S. Pardee Center, was interviewed about Africa’s rich food history by Jerome McDonnell for Worldview on WBEZ, the public radio station in Chicago. The interview is part of the occasional Food Mondays series. McCann is the author of Stirring the Pot: A History […]
Dr. Suranjana Nabar-Bhaduri, a scholar of development economics and the Indian economy, recently joined the Pardee Center as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. She is currently working on a policy brief for Pardee Center on the effects of liberalizing economies to external markets while minimizing state intervention in the developing world. Her research interests include the development […]
Pablo Suarez, a visiting post-doc fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center, is receiving media attention for his innovative approach to climate change impacts. Reporters from Reuters caught up with Suarez at a global climate summit in Durban, South Africa. Suarez, related his inspiration for his latest initiative for educating communities. After finding PowerPoint presentations […]
The Pardee Center at Boston University will co-organize a side event titled “Achieving Implementation – Accountability, Engagement, and Multi-Stakeholder Cooperation” to be held at the United Nations in New York on December 16, 2011, at the Second Intersessional Meeting for the forthcoming 2012 Rio+20 conference (the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development). The event is co-organized […]
Kevin Gallager, Pardee Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor of international relations at Boston University, published an op-ed on developing countries use of capital controls in The Guardian (November 29, 2011). In the op-ed, titled “The IMF Must Heed G20 Decisions,” Prof. Gallagher argues: “The IMF should not ignore the G20’s direction on capital flows. Rather than […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce that the next Frederick S. Pardee Distinguished Lecture will be delivered on Thursday, December 15 by Dr. William R. Jobin, Founder of Blue Nile Associates. Date: Thursday, December 15 Location: Florence and Chafetz Hillel House, 213 Bay State Road, […]
Pardee Center Director, Prof. James C McCann and Summer Fellows Natalie Mettler and Arianna Fogelman-Huhn attended the African Studies Association 54th Annual Meeting Program. The conference, titled “50 Years of African Liberation” was held in Washington, D.C. from November 16 – 19, 2011. Prof. McCann chaired the panel on “Perspectives on Food Soverignty: Taste, Technology, […]
On Tuesday, November 15, 2011, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held a lunch seminar on ‘The Global Land Rush: The Future of Food, Fuel, and Agricultural Development”. Part of the ‘Pardee House Seminars’ series, the event featured Rachel Nalepa (BU Department of Geography and Environment), Sarah Philips (Department of History) and Mutlu Ozdogan […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University has published a new paper (No. 15) in The Pardee Papers series. The Future of Agriculture in Africa was written by 2010 Pardee Post-doctoral Fellow Julius Gatune Kariuki. The paper discusses the outlook for the future of agriculture in Africa […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold a Pardee House Seminar on Tuesday, November 15, 2011, on ‘The Global Land Rush: The Future of Food, Fuel, and Agricultural Development’. The seminar will feature Rachel Nalepa (BU Geography and Environment), Sarah Philips (BU Department of History) and Mutlu Ozdogan […]