Sustainability, amid the increasing intellectual and scientific attention it receives, is a complex issue whose solutions will require wisdom. And not just wise maxims, good science, and sound ideas, but the practical wisdom, phronesis, to carry out, implement, and embody sustainability solutions, both in our personal and corporate lives. This is as true when developing university curricula as it is in supporting human flourishing and building resilience into our lives at individual, communal, and political levels.
What dimensions of sustainability education can best empower our human potential? If we hope to live well across generations, is Ohio State providing an education that can help ground such hope?
This event is co-sponsored by Ohio State's Sustainability Institute. It is part of CEHV's COMPAS Directions program, recalling our Sustainability COMPAS series from 2015-2016.
Dr. Randy Curren (Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Professor of Education, University of Rochester) will present ideas from his encompassing works on sustainability and phronesis in higher education. Among other works, his 2017 book, Living Well Now and in the Future: Why Sustainability Matters, advances a conception of human flourishing or living well that can ground a eudaimonic theory of justice and support a conceptualization of what it would mean to preserve opportunities to live well across generations.
Dr. Elena Irwin (OSU Sustainability Institute Faculty Director, University Distinguished Professor of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences in Economics and Sustainability) will highlight the practical wisdom underlying current and emerging sustainability programs at Ohio State.
Dr. Greg Hitzhusen (Associate Professor of Professional Practice in Religion, Ecology, and Sustainability, OSU School of Environment and Natural Resources; CEHV steering committee member) will moderate dialogue between the two presenters and invite audience discussion to examine how Ohio State, its students, faculty and staff, and higher education more generally can provide essential leadership, knowledge, and vision to contribute to global citizenship and catalyze a more sustainable future.
