Simon Levin to Lead Workshop on ‘Sustainability’

Prof. Simon Levin, the Moffett Professor of Biology at Princeton University and the Director of Princeton’s Center for BioComplexity, who is also the Pardee Visiting Professor for 2008-09 is visiting Boston University again this March, and will lead a Faculty Seminar on ‘Sustainability’ on Thursday, March 19, 2009. Last semester, Prof. Levin delivered a set of two Pardee Distinguished Lectures on Complex Adaptive Systems (here and here).

The Faculty Workshop will be held in the Provost’s Conference Room at 1 Silber Way, Boston Univeristy, Boston, from 10.30 am to 2.00 pm on Thursday, Maarch 19, 2009.

The workshop will focus on the questions: what might a sustainable future  look like and what should a university program on sustainability look like?

The purpose of the workshop is NOT to focus specifically on any current or future initiative at BU or at any particular university. Instead, its concern is more conceptual. The goal of the workshop is to think broadly and generally about what sustainability means and what it might mean for how univeristy education in related areas may or should be organized in the future. The desire is to think big and broad about something that is likely to impact what universities across the world will be doing in the future.