Wake Forest’s Eudaimonia Institute Tries to Turn From Controversy to Scholarship

The Eudaimonia Institute’s debut conference had an appropriately eudaimonic setting — a conference room with picturesque views at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art, a sprawling complex built early in the 20th century by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company’s founding family. The event went ahead with enthusiastic participation from speakers like Mr. Gonnering, a handful of Wake Forest faculty and students in attendance, and little acknowledgment of the controversy that has swirled around it.