The Pardee Center is hosting a visiting scholar, Bernd Sommer, from Germany in May 2010. Bernd Sommer is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen, Germany, and Research Analyst to the German Advisory Council on Global Change, which advises the Federal Government on climate change and other […]
The Director of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Prof. Adil Najam, presented the annual lecture at the Bernstein Forum of the World Affairs Council of Maine, held on May 6, 2010, at the Ludke Auditorium of the University of New England in Portland, Maine. Prof. Najam’s […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Boston University Professor of International Relations was interviewed and quoted in various international media outlets on the failed bombing attempt in New York’s Times Square. These included an op-ed published in The Express Tribune (adapted from Prof. […]
Some thirty faculty members and researchers from all across Boston University – including the College of Arts and Sciences, School of Medicine, the School of Public Health, School of Engineering, College of Communication, School of Social Work, and the Metropolitan College – attended the Dialogue on “The University’s Role in Dealing with Disasters and Complex Human […]
The Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, in collaboration with the Sustainable Development Knowledge Network (SDKP) will host a side-event at the 18th meeting of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) on Wednesday, May 12, 2010. The Pardee Center side-event at the CSD will meet from 1.15PM […]
The Times of India published an op-ed by the Pardee Center Director Prof. Adil Najam and Pardee Center Research Fellow Moeed Yusuf on the long-standing Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan on May 2, 2010. The op-ed titled “Kashmir: Ripe for Resolution” had earlier been also published in Pakistan’s largest English newspaper, The News. The […]
The Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future published two new papers in its Issues in Brief series. The first – No. 014 in the series (April, 2010) – is written by Amb. Paul Hare and focused on the future prospects for the G20 in global diplomacy (here). The […]
Experts from a variety of disciplines met at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on April 30, 2010, to discuss the current best practice modalities for preventing and treating a host of communicable and non-communicable diseases and what explains variation in the implementation of the bio-medical knowledge. The workshop […]
Pardee Center Director Prof. Adil Najam and Pardee Center Research Fellow Moeed Yusuf published an op-ed titled “Kashmir: Ripe for Resolution” in The News, Pakistan’s largest selling English newspaper, on April 29, 2010. The op-ed was based on a larger research paper by the same title that Najam and Yusuf published in the journal Third […]
The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Commission on Smart Global Health Policy, Boston University, and Harvard University, hosted a conference on the future of global health featuring Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Congressman Michael Capuano (D-MA), Boston University President Robert Brown, as well as top academics, industry leaders and student activists from the Boston […]