The book, “Social Thought from the Ruins: Quixote’s Dinner Party,” is based on conversations among international social scientists between the 2008 financial crisis and Covid.
Led by UB’s School of Architecture and Planning, The Resilient Campus challenges teams to envision the South Campus as a socio-ecologically integrated landscape.
Through food pantry, health and wellness screenings and more to come, UB students and faculty aim to help residents break the norm of dying around age 65.
A recent paper by UB philosophers argues that lasting shifts might be achieved by redirecting the effort to change away from the troublesome norms themselves and towards the mental frameworks supporting them.
