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Center for Practical Wisdom Livestream Lecture: Darcia Narvaez

The Wisdom of Our Ancestors: Deep Nestedness and Human Futures

Join us for our next lecture livestream: Darcia Narvaez

Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame

presents

The Wisdom of Our Ancestors: Deep Nestedness and Human Futures

Date: Monday, January 13, 2025; 11 am CST

 

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About this lecture:

The dominant culture has pulled away from humanity’s millions-year-old adaptive heritages, impairing species-normal capacities and potential in a feedback loop of greater disconnection and destruction. Species-typical nature is fostered by deep nestedness—developmentally, horizontally—across time/space, and vertically—in Earth and cosmos. We must re-adopted nestedness to restore human and planetary wellbeing.

About the speaker:

Darcia Narvaez is is a Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame who has written extensively on issues of character, moral development, and human flourishing. Dr. Narvaez’ research explores questions of species-typical and species-atypical development in terms of wellbeing, morality, and sustainable wisdom. She examines how early life experience (the evolved nest) influences moral functioning. Her 2014 book won the 2015 William James Book Award from the APA and the 2017 Expanded Reason Award for research. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, and the American Educational Research Association. She hosts the website EvolvedNest.Org and is president of KindredMedia.org.