From: Media Release/York University (original link) Professor Hélène Mialet (York University), along with her colleagues, Tarek Elhaik (University of California, Davis) and Christopher Kelty (University of California, Los Angeles), will direct a new program, entitled, “Future Flourishing,” sponsored by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)’s initiative for the “Future of Being Human.” The Future Flourishing program will explore how human exceptionalism can be reconfigured by extending the boundary and definition of the human to the living and non-living beings that make us who we are. As Mialet explains, “the fundamental question at the core of the Future Flourishing program, is how can we live well without human exceptionalism. How can we live well and flourish with those upon whom we depend or with whom we share a common world? The establishment of a new definition of the human will have tremendous implications for how we think about and ‘do’ politics, ethics, knowledge and morality.” Mialet, Elhaik and Kelty have assembled a network of 16 exceptional scholars and practitioners, including philosophers, historians, curators, conservators, artists and anthropologists from around the world to help develop this program. Read the press release from York University. Leave a Reply. |
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