VCC Teaching, Learning, & Research Symposium
Mar 1, 2024

Dr. Vanessa Andreotti (University of Victoria)
Keynote Address:
Navigating the Meta-Crisis Together: From Narrow Intelligence to Relational Wisdom

What if we could develop the capacity to respond to the meta-crisis from a scape of emotional sobriety, relational maturity, intellectual discernment, and intergenerational responsibility?  In an era marked by unprecedented global challenges, this keynote address invites you to explore how we can collectively move from a narrow form of intelligence focused on profit maximization to the wisdom that challenges the imposed sense of separation between humans and “nature”, and between species, cultures and individuals. This session presents a collective inquiry focused on how post-secondary institutions can create the conditions for us to confront the most difficult challenges of our time, including climate destabilization, biodiversity loss, economic unsustainability, extreme polarization, the resurgence of fascism, escalation of armed conflicts and wars and the threats of unchecked and unhinged AI.