"Work"
During 2024-25, CEHV hosted a series of events on the topic of Work. We hope that this program – our Work COMPAS – has helped people think critically about how work shapes our personal and collective lives, and constructively about how we might change things in the future. Through such programming, COMPAS aims to model the civil and informed discussion that is central to the mission of a leading public university. Our 2024-25 program was anchored by two one-day conferences on the meaning and future of work.
November 1, 2024 
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Spring 2025 Conference: The Future of Work
Autumn 2024 Conference: The Meaning of Work
Our first Conference of the "Work" COMPAS was held on November 1, 2024 on the theme The Meaning of Work.
Panel: Is some work unjust?
Panelists: Eyal Press (author of Dirty Work); Lori Watson (co-author of Debating Sex Work, Professor and Chair of Philosophy, Washington University); Moderator: Dana Howard (Division of Bioethics/Department of Philosophy, CEHV Steering Committee, Ohio State).
Panel: Is work part of a meaningful life?
Panelists: David Blustein (author of The Importance of Work in an Age of Uncertainty, Professor and the Golden Eagle Faculty Fellow in Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology, Boston College); Julie Rose (author of Free Time, Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth College); Moderator: Ben McKean (Department of Political Science, Ohio State).
Keynote: Reconsidering the Puritan Work Ethic as a Moral Resource for Workers
Speaker: Elizabeth Anderson, author of Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back, and "The Struggle for Meaningful Work" in Dissent Magazine, Max Shaye Professor of Public Philosophy, John Dewey Distinguished University Professor; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, University of Michigan)
Moderator: Winston Thompson (Department of Educational Studies, CEHV Steering Committee, Ohio State)
Past COMPAS Programs
Previous COMPAS topics include Immigration (2011-12), Public/Private (2013-14), Sustainability (2015-16), Inequality (2016-17), Religion in Public Life (2017-18), Technology (2018-19), What Is America? (2019-20), COVID-19 (2020-21), Markets and the Open Society (2021-22) and Education in Our Democracy (2022-23) and COMPAS Directions: A Decade of Ethical Exploration (2023-24).