Randall Curren

Recent and Upcoming Lectures

“Sustainable Development as Progress towards Living Well,” Keynote Speech, International Conference on Sustainable Development and Genuine Progress, Bejing, China (by Zoom), May 29-30, 2021.

Scholar-in-Residence, presenting a 4-day faculty seminar on “The Future of Higher Education,” Center for the Study of Ethics, Utah Valley University, May 11-14, 2021.

Philosophy Capstone Guest Scholar, multiple (Zoom) events including the lecture, “Children of the Broken Heartlands,” Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, Virginia, March 22-26, 2021.

“Reengineering the World for Sustainability?” hosted by Engineers for a Sustainable World, University of Rochester, October 16, 2020.

 “Children of the Broken Heartlands: Rural Isolation and the Geography of Opportunity,” University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (by Zoom), September 24, 2020.

“Using Case Studies to Investigate the Socioeconomic and Ethical Dimensions of Sustainability,” Earth Educators’ Rendezvous, Zoom hosted by Stanford University, with Ellen Metzger, July 15, 2020.

Co-leader w/ Harry Brighouse, Graduate Workshop in Education Ethics, Harvard, April 30, 2020, by Zoom.

“Patriotic Education,” What is America? Conversations on Morality, Politics, and Society Series, Center for Ethics and Human Values, Ohio State University, November 7, 2019.

“Transformative Valuing,” North American Association for Philosophy and Education, University of St. Mary on the Lake, Mundelein, IL, October 25-27, 2019.

“Education for Human Flourishing,” Keynote, Roundtable Conference on Human Education in the 3rdMillennium, hosted by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Dharamsala, India, July, 7-8, 2019.