New England International Donors (NEID) and the Boston University Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will co-host a panel discussion on the current situation with the devastating floods in Pakistan and the ongoing impacts of Haiti’s earthquake earlier this year. The event will be held on Thursday, November 4, 2010, from 5:30-7:30pm, […]
On Friday October 15, 2010, the Sawyer Seminar on Energy Transitions and Society convened for its second meeting. The session entitled Energy, Culture, and Society featured Laura Nader and Peter Shulman. It was moderated by Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and coordinator of the […]
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 and Geography and the Environment, gave the keynote address at an international symposium of the Asian Pacific Islander Social Work Educators Association (API SWEA) on October 13, 2010. The symposium was […]
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 and Geography and the Environment, participated in an advisory group meeting to develop a policy assessment framework to be used in the forthcoming Fifth Global Environmental Outlook Report (GEO-5) of the […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow, Prof. Kevin Gallagher, launched his new book on China and Latin America at the School for International and Public Affairs, Colombia University on October 11, 2010. Professor Gallagher co-authored the book, “The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization,” with Roberto Porzecanski, a research fellow at the […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has become an accredited observer organization to follow the negotiations on a global legally binding instrument on mercury. Pardee Faculty Fellow Professor Henrik Selin, will be attending the next Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) taking place from January 24 to January 28 in Chiba, […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of Geography and the Environment and Boston University gave the opening plenary address to the 10th Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change held at the Freie Universitat Berlin on October 8-9, 2010. […]
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. 017 in the series (October, 2010) – is written by Enrique Silva and focused on the potential and future role of the university in disaster mitigation and humanitarian […]
On Wednesday, October 6, 2010, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held a lunch seminar on ‘Building Global Citizenship – The Role of the University’. Part of the ‘Pardee House Seminars’ series, the event featured Dean Jay Halfond, Dean Robert Hollister and, Professor Fernando Reimers, and was moderated by […]
Renowned Indian social activist and danseuse Mallika Sarabhai will present a performance followed by a conversation on the role of the arts in bringing about social change. The public event will be held on Monday, October 18, 2010, at the Boston University College of Fine Arts (Room 500, 855 Commonwealth Ave.) from 2.00-3.15pm and will be […]