September 7, 2012; 9:00 to 10:30 am
Coffee at 8:30
National Press Club, 529 14th Street, NW, 13th Floor
Washington, DC 20013
Please RSVP Here by September 3 About the event
The pressure of explosive population growth will increasingly require us to empathize, collaborate, and negotiate within our own small communities and as nations. Yet, vitriolic political rhetoric, more time spent with technology and entertainment, and evidence of religious and cultural intolerance despite a spike in diversity within nations may all be indicative of a decrease in a globally shared sense of humanity.
As a technological, economic, and political leader of incredible social diversity, the United States serves as a bellwether for world’s ability to “all get along.” What are the implications of diminished humanist values in an era when American business, political, scientific, and policy decisions have inevitable and repercussive global ramifications?
Discussion topics:
As a technological, economic, and political leader of incredible social diversity, the United States serves as a bellwether for world’s ability to “all get along.” What are the implications of diminished humanist values in an era when American business, political, scientific, and policy decisions have inevitable and repercussive global ramifications?
Discussion topics:
- In a world of proliferating technology, intensifying competition for resources, and rising nation-states how will we be able to humanize the increasingly complex choices we must make as a society?
- How can we create a culture of intellectual confluence that embraces both technological advance and that which makes us human?
- Is there room for the humanity of all seven billion people to be recognized, or is it inevitable that many will remain (or become) commodities?
- As our interactions are progressively mediated through electronics, how will we educate for humanistic interchange?
- How does the legal definition of personhood blur the human status of individual people?
The Challenges Before us Forums
In the spirit of ASU’s The Challenges Before Us project to tackle some of the many challenges facing society today, the forums are designed to open a dialogue between experts, practitioners and the community at large.
Moderator:
Panelists:
Director, Institute for Humanities Research; Regents’ Professor, Women and Gender Studies, Arizona State University
Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow, New America Foundation and Senior Editor, The New Atlantis
President, Tecnológico de Monterrey Foundation; Presidential Professor of Practice for Education Innovation and Special Advisor to the President, Arizona State University.
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