Category: 2010

Prof. Najam at CIGI Annual Conference

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 Environment, attended CIGI ’10, the annual conference of the Center for International Governance Innovation at Waterloo, Canada. This conference is the premier annual event for CIGI and brings […]

Prof. Adil Najam Talks About The Future With Pharma Scientists

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 of Geography and Environment, was the keynote speaker at the Annual “Science Day” for researchers at the pharmaceuticals company, Vertex. Prof. Najam spoke to the gathering of nearly three hundred […]

New Issue Brief on Corporate Social Conscience

Call for a Corporate Social Conscience Index By Stephanie Watts September 2010 (8 pages) Download PDF Version Corporate social responsibility” (CSR) has become a widely used term to describe how large companies adopt practices and policies that curb the potential negative impacts their operations can have on the surrounding environment and the community in which […]

Ahmet Selim Tekelioglu Joins Pardee Center as Graduate Fellow

Ahmet Selim Tekelioglu joins the Pardee Center as a graduate researcher working on post- structural International Relations theory, sociology of religion, and the role of ethnic/ religious identities in international politics. His doctoral project comparatively analyzes how the nature of discourses used regarding the increasing visibility of Islam in the European Union affects attitudes of […]

‘China Today, China Tomorrow’ Launched with Panel Discussion

The new book ‘China Today, China Tomorrow’ (2010; Rowman and Littlefield Publishers) – which is based on the papers originally presented at the December 2008 Pardee Center conference on the Future of China – was launched today with an impressive panel discussion featuring five of the chapter authors of the book, including Prof. Joseph Fewsmith, […]

Adil Najam Quoted in Nature Report on Higher Education in Pakistan

Prof. Adil Najam, Boston University Professor of International Relations and of Geography and Environment and Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future, was quoted extensively in a detailed report in the magazine Nature (467, 378-379; September 2010) on the state of higher education in Pakistan (also see). […]

Cleveland, Melosi and Podobnik discuss Energy Transitions at first Sawyer Seminar

On Monday, September 20, 2010, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Boston University Department of Geography and Environment launched the John Sawyer Seminars on Energy Transitions and Society, with the first session focusing on ‘Overview of Energy Transitions,’ and featuring Prof. Martin Melosi, Prof. Bruce Podobnik, and […]