On April 3, from 3:00-4:30 pm, in the Jake Jabs Event Center, a very exciting event is taking place. The Chancellor's Distinguished Lecture Series, presented by the Damrauer Endowed Lectureship Fund, will present psychology alumni Daniel Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Stumbling on Happiness and Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.
The talk is titled It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine). Here is the description: human beings were designed to worry, but not necessarily about the things that matter most. Our nation argues and agonizes about problems of no importance while shrugging at those that could spell our doom. Why? Professor Gilbert will explain why our brains evolved to ignore the looming disaster of climate change and will suggest some ways that we might still outsmart them.
I found this topic timely for so many reasons. Right now, as a university we are doing so much strategizing about the big picture and what the future will look like. I hope many of you had a chance to attend at least one of the SEM Matters Workshop Series earlier this week. I know many of you are participating in your departments in discussions about how the budget gives us an opportunity to rethink how we function as an institution of higher learning. Future CLAS-wide Forum information is below in the events section. I know it sometimes feels like the end of the world as we know it, but I hope we can continue to focus on improvements that will come out of this crisis.
Prof. Gilbert’s talk is free and open to the public but will be popular, so your RSVP does not guarantee seating (first-come, first-served) and doors open at 2:45pm.
If you have questions you can direct them to: events@ucdenver.edu.
