{"id":10696,"date":"2011-09-28T09:27:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T13:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/?p=10696"},"modified":"2011-09-29T17:58:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T21:58:14","slug":"reception-james-mccan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2011\/09\/28\/reception-james-mccan\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcoming Reception for New Pardee Center Director, Prof. James McCann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardee\/files\/2011\/09\/reception29-16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10698 alignleft\" title=\"reception(2)9-16\" src=\"\/pardee\/files\/2011\/09\/reception29-16.jpg\" alt=\"reception(2)9-16\" width=\"254\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University hosted a reception to welcome the new Pardee Center Director, Prof. James McCann, on September 28, 2011. Prof. McCann, a well-known scholar on the history of the food, ecology and agriculture of Africa, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2011\/08\/15\/james-mccann-pardee-director\/\">appointed Director,\u00a0<em>ad interim<\/em> <\/a>of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future in August. He replaces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/community\/professors\/adil-najam\/\">Prof. Adil Najam<\/a>, who recently returned to his native Pakistan to become Vice Chancellor of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lums.edu.pk\/index.php\">Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/pardee\/files\/2011\/09\/reception9-16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10699\" title=\"reception9-16\" src=\"\/pardee\/files\/2011\/09\/reception9-16.jpg\" alt=\"reception9-16\" width=\"287\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2011\/09\/reception9-16.jpg 603w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2011\/09\/reception9-16-484x300.jpg 484w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/a>The reception was held at the Pardee House, and attended by faculty and researchers from Boston University,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2011\/03\/14\/development-works-assistants\/\">Pardee Center Graduate Assistants<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/community\/graduate-summer-fellows\/\">Summer Fellows<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University hosted a reception to welcome the new Pardee Center Director, Prof. James McCann, on September 28, 2011. Prof. McCann, a well-known scholar on the history of the food, ecology and agriculture of Africa, was appointed Director,\u00a0ad interim of the Frederick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4141,84,60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10696"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10701,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696\/revisions\/10701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}