Our public lecture, "Humanity’s Place in a Wounded World," will be presented by Norman Wirzba in Tucker Theater (room 127A) on March 25, 2026.

Wirzba’s recent work explores what sustains hope and why it so often seems absent from our vision of the future. He maintains, it depends on a collective commitment to care for the physical world (its soils and waters, plants and animals, homes and neighborhoods) and to promote the moral, aesthetic, and spiritual ideals that affirm life as good, beautiful, and sacred.

Norman Wirzba  is the Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor of Theology and a Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He writes  on a wide variety of topics ranging from environmental philosophy and ethics to food studies and sustainable agriculture from a theological point of view.