Jeremy D Johnson

Jeremy D Johnson

I found myself struggling to find the appropriate leading note for this discussion. History seems to have irrupted this year, reminding us that, after all, things are still happening “out there” in the polis and “in here,” the indwelling and painful irruptions of new possibilities, and new regenerative visions, of a world enacted with more compassion, more empathy, more planetary thinking. It’s painful, perhaps, because we remain in a kind of liminal tension between visions …

Lisa Norton

“2020 brought an unexpected opportunity: a powerful challenge to entrenched ways of thinking about the future. The pandemic shock, which has touched every single one of us in various and diverse ways, has allowed for a global experiment with uncertainty. This experiment unveiled a significant flaw in the way humanity uses-the-future today, and opened the door to put into practice new ways of thinking about, and using the future.”^[i]

–Riel Miller, Head of Foresight, UNESCO

Lisa Norton

J. Matthias Bennett

“What do I truly need to be a happy human?” was the question I asked myself In the Fall of 2011, after having left Yale University where I worked for four years, and having left a marriage, after ten.

I then moved to an island in the Pacific Northwest and slept in a tent for a year to find out the answer. During that year, I also asked, “What connects the great leaders, across all time, space, …

Katie Hamaker, Michael Munton, Megan Quinn, Jenna Wes

Katie Hamaker Megan Quinn

Michael Munton Jenna Wes

Our Story

Drawn by an internal call, the five of us eagerly raised our hands when our instructor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Jocelyn Chapman, put out a call for students to enter the Student Case Competition at this year’s International Leadership Association Conference. We found ourselves being pulled into this group for different reasons, collectively and individually facing the daunting topic …

David L. Nickel

David L. Nickel

College and university faculty positions are in jeopardy today. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, public and private institutions were facing enrolment challenges from declining numbers of traditional-age students, increasing tuition costs, state budget reductions, and widespread concerns about the burdens of student debts. Many were relying on the higher tuitions received by international students, particularly students from China and other Asian countries. However, this source of income is drying up due to federal immigration …

John O’Neill

John O’Neil

The XXIV World Congress of Philosophy August 13- 20, 2018 – Beijing, China

The World Congress of Philosophy is a global gathering of philosophers held every five years, since its inception in 1900, in a different city each time. Recent previous ones were held in Istanbul, Seoul and Athens. They are opportunities for philosophers from around the globe to get together, develop relationships, share ideas and contribute towards the development of philosophy globally.

The last Congress …