New
Directions in the Study of Happiness: United States and International
Perspectives
October 22-24, 2006
University of Notre Dame, CCE Auditorium
Leading scholars from several disciplines
will be coming together at the University of Notre
Dame to present and evaluate contributions to the rapidly-growing area of
happiness studies. They will discuss issues such as:
What is
happiness?
How do we
measure happiness?
What does
happiness depend on?
Does money buy
happiness—why or why not?
How is justice
related to happiness?
What kinds of
economic, social and political arrangements increase happiness?
How should happiness studies progress
What should we
do to increase happiness?
This conference is sponsored principally by the Department of
Economics and Policy Studies and by the Program in American Democracy through a
grant from the Annenberg Foundation, with additional support from Institute of
Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, the Department of Sociology, the Center for
the Study of Social Movements and Social Change, and the College of Arts and
Letters at the University of Notre Dame.
Poster
Program