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 […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold a lunch seminar on ‘Building Global Citizenship – The Role of the University’ on Wednesday, October 6, 2010, featuring Dean Rob Hollister (Tufts University), Prof. Fernando Reimers (Harvard University) and Dean Jay Halfond (Boston University). The Seminar will be moderated by […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
The Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held an all-day conference on ‘The Future of South-South Economic Relations’ as part of its Africa 2060 program of research. The conference was held on Friday, September 25, 2010 at the Hariri Building (BU School of Management) and brought together experts from […]
Pardee House was the venue of an evening reception held in honor of the Boston University-University of Warwick partnership and of the participants of two related conferences: the Pardee Center conference on “The Future of South-South Economic Relations” and BU/Warwick conference on “Business and Government After the Crash.” In addition to the participants of the […]
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, […]
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). […]
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 […]