How do disruptive experiences change a person’s view of the world and what matters in life?
A group of academics from the United States, Canada, Poland, Austria, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Ukraine, and Germany will be meeting at the Notre Dame Global Centre at Kylemore Abbey from May 5–8 to talk about the connection between disruptive experiences and wisdom. Clemens Sedmak, professor of social ethics and director of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, is hosting the event with the support of postdoctoral research fellow and ethicist Yiran Hua (Brown University). The group of a dozen participants includes Kathleen Higgins (University of Texas at Austin), Julianne Chung (York University), and Jiri Holba (Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences).
This seminar explores, in a confidential exchange, different aspects of disruptive experiences and their impact on ways of seeing the world and “being in the world.”
It is made possible through the support of the Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., Center for Virtue Ethics in the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good at the University of Notre Dame.
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The Institute for Ethics and the Common Good is at the heart of the Ethics Initiative, a University-wide effort to establish Notre Dame as a premier global destination for the study of ethics. Under the leadership of Meghan Sullivan, Ethics Initiative director and Wilsey Family College Professor of Philosophy, the institute focuses on cross-disciplinary ethics research, undergraduate course development, the moral formation of its students and faculty, and engaging the public in meaningful dialogue around ethical issues.