On Thursday, April 8, 2011, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held a lunch seminar on ‘Managing Disasters: Turning Knowledge into Action’. Part of the ‘Pardee House Seminars’ series, the event featured Dr. Hani O. Mowafi (BU School of Medicine), Prof. Enrique R. Silva (BU City Planning and Urban Affairs) and Dr. Pablo […]
The fifth session of the Preparatory Commission for the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), and the first session of the Assembly of IRENA were held from 3-5 April at the Abu Dhabi National Convention Center (ADNEC), in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Assembly was the inaugural meeting IRENA’s governing body, and was attended […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce that the next Frederick S. Pardee Distinguished Lecture will be delivered on Friday, April 15 by Dr. Mehmood Khan, Chief Executive Officer, Global Nutrition Group and Chief Scientific Officer for PepsiCo. Date: Friday, April 15 Location: Barrister’s Hall, Boston […]
Pardee Center Graduate felllow Ahmet Selim Tekelioglu attended the 69th Annual Convention of the Midwest Political Science Association held in Chicago from March 31st to April 3rd. Ahmet delivered a paper entitled “Being European/ Being Muslim: International Relations and Contending Forms of Muslim Presence in the West.” Ahmet’s paper discusses the links between the discipline […]
More than 100 people participated in the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future’s annual conference on Thursday, March 31, called Development That Works. The conference was held at the Boston University School of Management Conference Center. The all-day conference was organized by the Pardee Center in collaboration with the Boston […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University hosted a reception in honor of the participants of the Development That Works conference on the evening of March 30, 2011. Held at the Pardee House, the reception was attended by faculty and researchers from Boston University, Pardee Center Graduate Assistants, and […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold a Pardee House Seminar on Thursday, April 7, 2011, on ‘Managing Disasters: Turning Knowledge Into Action’. The seminar will feature Dr. Hani O. Mowafi (BU School of Medicine), Prof. Enrique R. Silva (BU City Planning and Urban Affairs) and Dr. Pablo […]
Dr. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, attended the 2011 annual meeting of the UN Committee on Development Policy (CDP). Prof. Najam has served on the CDP since 2009 when he was nominated to it by the United Nations’ Secretary-General Mr. Ban Ki-moon. (See news reports of […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a Boston University Professor of International Relations and of Geography and Environment, participated in the second meeting of the Advisory panel for the 2011 Human Development Report, produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The theme […]
On Friday, March 25, 2011, the John Sawyer Seminars on Energy Transitions and Society convened for its seventh meeting. The session entitled Energy, Security, and Conflict featured Amy Myers Jaffe and Michael Klare, and was moderated by Dana Bauer, Professor of Geography at Boston University. Amy Myers Jaffe is the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in […]