The Frederick S Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a meeting of diplomacy experts on April 20 called “Diplomacy for the Facebook Era” organized and chaired by Amb. Paul Webster Hare, the former British ambassador to Cuba who currently is a Lecturer in Diplomacy at Boston University’s International Relations Department. The […]
Dr. Mehmood Khan, the Chief Scientific Officer and CEO of the Global Nutrition Group for PepsiCo, delivered the 2011 Pardee Distinguished Lecture on Friday, April 15, 2011 on “Health and Nutrition: The Role of a Global Food and Beverage Company.” Dr Khan spoke to a rapt of audience of BU faculty, students and guests from around […]
Dr. Hafeez Shaikh – Pakistan’s Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs & Statistics – was the guest at a special lecture on the economy and politics in Pakistan at the South Asia Initiative at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. The discussion was moderated by Prof. Adil Najam, Director of Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee […]
Global Environmental Governance: The Role of Local Governments By Konrad Otto-Zimmermann March 2011 (8 pages) Download PDF version Is there a role for cities in the Global Environmental Governance (GEG) system and, if so, what exactly should that role be? Konrad Otto-Zimmermann, the Director of ICLEI, argues that cities and local governments have played a […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold a Pardee House Seminar on Wednesday, April 20, 2011, on ‘Diplomacy for the Facebook Era’. The seminar will feature Amb. Nicholas Burns (Harvard Kennedy School), Amb. Paul Heinbecker (Laurier University and Centre for International Governance Innovation) and Dr. Bruce Jones (New […]
Nine graduate students from across Boston University have been named Pardee Summer Graduate Fellows for 2011. They will spend the summer conducting research at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and participate in a cross-disciplinary program of research on longer-range challenges related to human well-being. This year, in partnership […]
On Thursday, April 8, 2011, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held a lunch seminar on ‘Managing Disasters: Turning Knowledge into Action’. Part of the ‘Pardee House Seminars’ series, the event featured Dr. Hani O. Mowafi (BU School of Medicine), Prof. Enrique R. Silva (BU City Planning and Urban Affairs) and Dr. Pablo […]
The fifth session of the Preparatory Commission for the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), and the first session of the Assembly of IRENA were held from 3-5 April at the Abu Dhabi National Convention Center (ADNEC), in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Assembly was the inaugural meeting IRENA’s governing body, and was attended […]
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 Friday, April 15 by Dr. Mehmood Khan, Chief Executive Officer, Global Nutrition Group and Chief Scientific Officer for PepsiCo. Date: Friday, April 15 Location: Barrister’s Hall, Boston […]
Pardee Center Graduate felllow Ahmet Selim Tekelioglu attended the 69th Annual Convention of the Midwest Political Science Association held in Chicago from March 31st to April 3rd. Ahmet delivered a paper entitled “Being European/ Being Muslim: International Relations and Contending Forms of Muslim Presence in the West.” Ahmet’s paper discusses the links between the discipline […]