A native of the UK, Greg Anderson is a Professor of History at Ohio State University, where he has taught since 2005. His work uses history to question standard thinking about life in the past, present, and future, showing how humans have always lived in a “pluriverse” of many different worlds, not in a universe of just one. In his most recent book, The Realness of Things Past (Oxford University Press, 2018), he outlined an alternative way of practicing academic history, whereby peoples of the past are studied on their own terms, in their own particular worlds of experience. Since then, he has dedicated himself to showing what modern humans could learn about ecologically responsible living from the non-modern worlds of others, past and present. His TED talk on the subject has been seen by several million people across multiple platforms.
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The Village Way
Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World
For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?
Join us for a 9-month inquiry into this question, exploring how we participate together in a time that calls us back to community, resilience, and shared life,
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