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SUMMARY:CHURN: THE TENSION THAT DIVIDES US AND HOW TO OVERCOME IT
DESCRIPTION:Nearly two decades after Whistling Vivaldi\, legendary social psychologist Claude M. Steele\, Ph.D. (FAN ’14)\, returns with Churn: The Tension That Divides Us and How to Overcome It\, an equally ambitious work examining the mental agitation and physical stress we experience in diverse settings\, and the surprising role trust-building plays in reducing it across identity divides. \nOpening with a striking vignette of a parent-teacher conference between a well-meaning white teacher and the concerned Black parents of a seventh grader\, the book demonstrates how churn threatens the trust essential to teaching and mentoring the young. Drawing on decades of psychological research\, Churn is rich with examples: a young woman entering a boardroom as one of only a few women; a white male feeling conspicuous during diversity training; a Chinese grandmother shopping where anti-Asian violence has occurred; and lessons from remarkable student outcomes at Georgia State University. \nToo often\, we navigate the tensions of diversity by pretending they don’t exist\, avoiding connection across what can seem like wide chasms of difference. Steele charts a different path\, one rooted in seeing the full humanity in human difference. He offers concrete practices\, “a game played on the ground\,” for building trust across all kinds of divides: between individuals\, in classrooms\, boardrooms\, and entire institutions. \nCarefully intertwining research with anecdotes drawn from Steele’s own biracial background\, Churn is essential reading for anyone committed to fostering community. Filled with hard-won hope\, Steele’s summa work teaches us how to work through the churn suffusing our lives. \nSteele will be in conversation with Marcus Campbell\, Ed.D.\, superintendent of Evanston Township High School District 202. Dr. Campbell was previously the Assistant Superintendent/Principal at ETHS\, responsible for providing leadership in the development of district strategy and organizational change\, including effective instruction practices\, impactful diversity and equity initiatives\, and responsive programs and services. \nBook Giveaway: FAN is giving away copies of Churn to attendees\, while supplies last. \nThis event is suitable for youth ages 12 and up. It will be recorded but not live streamed and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/churn-the-tension-that-divides-us-and-how-to-overcome-it/
LOCATION:Evanston Township High School Auditorium\, 1600 Dodge Ave\, Evanston\, IL\, 60201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network
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SUMMARY:INSIDE THE BOX: HOW CONSTRAINTS MAKE US BETTER
DESCRIPTION:We live in a world that gives us seemingly infinite choices and prizes freedom above all else. We have an unprecedented number of options regarding what to do\, who to be\, and how to spend our time. All that choice is wonderful; it is also overwhelming. The irony is that total freedom can be paralyzing\, and unlimited resources don’t necessarily lead to the biggest breakthroughs. In fact\, overvaluing complete freedom can be disastrous for everything from starting a company to harnessing creativity to finding personal satisfaction. \nIn his new book\, Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better\, bestselling author David Epstein (FAN ’16\, ’20) argues that all of us—individuals\, businesses\, institutions\, even societies—can benefit from narrowing our options. He dives into the science and practice of constraints\, exploring exactly when and how guardrails can be beneficial\, whether we’re working with limited resources or using self-imposed boundaries to tap unexpected wells of focus and innovation. \nOriginal\, galvanizing\, and deeply researched\, Inside the Box tells absorbing stories of people and organizations that embraced constraints to transform themselves\, and the world—as well as a few that struggled from a lack of limits. Epstein reveals how boundaries create breakthroughs\, and how setting the right constraints can help you become the most creative\, productive\, and satisfied version of yourself. \nEpstein will be in conversation with Megan Twohey\, an investigative reporter at The New York Times who seeks to expose hidden truths and hold powerful individuals and institutions to account. She is the co-author\, with Jodi Kantor (FAN ’26)\, of She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement\, which takes readers behind the scenes of the Harvey Weinstein investigation and was adapted into a film. Twohey and Kantor shared a Pulitzer Prize for public service for their reporting. \nBoth featured guests are ETHS alums: Epstein is ‘98\, and Twohey is ‘94. \nBook Giveaway: FAN is giving away copies of Inside the Box to attendees\, while supplies last. \nThis event is suitable for youth ages 12 and up. It will be recorded but not live streamed and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/inside-the-box-how-constraints-make-us-better/
LOCATION:Evanston Township High School Auditorium\, 1600 Dodge Ave\, Evanston\, IL\, 60201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network
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SUMMARY:BACKTALKER: AN AMERICAN MEMOIR
DESCRIPTION:In 2026\, Critical Race Theory and intersectionality are among the most talked about and most misunderstood topics of the day. To truly understand where these ideas came from\, you must start with the woman who founded them: Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw. \nDistinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law Schools\, Crenshaw is widely recognized for coining and developing both CRT and intersectionality. Her new book\, Backtalker: An American Memoir\, is the powerful and intimate story of how a spunky little girl from Canton\, OH came up with a new way to look at the world and forever changed the way we talk about race\, gender\, and social justice. The examples from her own life\, recounted with warmth\, humor\, and insight\, illuminate how intersectionality emerged not from abstract ideas\, but from lived experience. \nEvoking each time and place like a gifted novelist\, Backtalker takes readers from a Canton elementary school classroom to the back door of a Harvard club\, and behind the scenes of some of the most consequential moments in race and gender over the last half century: the Anita Hill hearings\, the launch of My Brother’s Keeper\, the movement against police violence. \nIn a moment when her life’s work faces erasure and disinformation\, Crenshaw’s story is both a call to action and a lesson in how understanding the past charts a course for the future. \nCrenshaw will be in conversation with Beth E. Richie\, Ph.D.\, Distinguished Professor of Criminology\, Law\, and Justice and Black Studies and the Inaugural Chair in Social Sciences and the Humanities at The University of Illinois at Chicago. The emphasis of her scholarly and activist work has been on the ways that race/ethnicity and social position affect the experience of violence and criminalization\, focusing on the experiences of Black women and gender non-conforming people. \nBook Giveaway: FAN is giving away copies of Backtalker to attendees\, while supplies last. \nThis event is suitable for youth ages 12 and up. It will be recorded but not live streamed and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/backtalker-an-american-memoir/
LOCATION:Evanston Township High School Auditorium\, 1600 Dodge Ave\, Evanston\, IL\, 60201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network
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SUMMARY:THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US: WORKING AND HOMELESS IN AMERICA
DESCRIPTION:The working homeless. In a country where hard work and determination are supposed to lead to success\, there is something scandalous about this phrase. But skyrocketing rents\, low wages\, and a lack of tenant rights have produced a startling phenomenon: People with full-time jobs cannot keep a roof over their head\, especially in America’s booming cities\, where rapid growth is leading to catastrophic displacement. These families are being forced into homelessness not by a failing economy but a thriving one. \nIn a gripping and deeply reported book\, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America\, Brian Goldstone\, Ph.D.\, plunges readers into the lives of five Atlanta families struggling to remain housed in a gentrifying\, increasingly unequal city. Maurice and Natalia make a fresh start in the country’s “Black Mecca” after being priced out of DC. Kara dreams of starting her own cleaning business while mopping floors at a public hospital. Britt scores a coveted housing voucher. Michelle is in school to become a social worker. Celeste toils at her warehouse job while undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer. Each of them aspires to provide a decent life for their children—and each of them\, one by one\, joins the ranks of the nation’s working homeless. \nThrough intimate\, novelistic portraits\, Goldstone reveals the human cost of this crisis\, following parents and their kids as they go to sleep in cars\, or in squalid extended-stay hotel rooms\, and head out to their jobs and schools the next morning. These are the nation’s hidden homeless\, omitted from official statistics\, and proof that overflowing shelters and street encampments are only the most visible manifestation of a far more pervasive problem. \nGoldstone is a journalist and author whose longform reporting and essays have appeared in The New York Times\, Harper’s Magazine\, and The New Republic\, among other publications. There Is No Place for Us was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction\, named one of the 10 Best Books of 2025 by The New York Times and The Atlantic\, and selected as one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year. He has a Ph.D. in anthropology from Duke University and was a Mellon Research Fellow at Columbia University. In 2021\, he was a National Fellow at New America. \nBook Giveaway: FAN is giving away copies of There Is No Place for Us at the event\, while supplies last. \nThis event is suitable for youth ages 12 and up. It will be recorded but not live streamed and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/there-is-no-place-for-us-working-and-homeless-in-america-2/
LOCATION:Evanston Township High School Auditorium\, 1600 Dodge Ave\, Evanston\, IL\, 60201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network
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SUMMARY:EVERYBODY'S FLY: ART\, MUSIC\, AND CHANGING THE CULTURE
DESCRIPTION:Blondie’s declaration on their 1980 hit “Rapture” introduced listeners around the world to Fred Brathwaite\, also known as Fab 5 Freddy\, a pioneering cultural icon whose fearless creativity reshaped the worlds of art\, style\, and music. Next spring\, Viking is proud to publish his electrifying memoir Everybody’s Fly: A Life of Art\, Music\, and Changing the Culture. \nEverybody’s Fly is an essential\, street-level cultural history from one of our most curious\, passionate\, and inspiring minds still working today. Picking up where Patti Smith’s Just Kids leaves off\, it offers an intimate look into how New York’s underground art and music scene—guided by Fab’s singular vision of what could be possible— irrevocably transformed mainstream culture from the late 1970s to today. \nBecause Fab doesn’t just have a great story—he is the story. Name a seismic cultural shift of the last five decades\, and chances are\, he wasn’t just there—he was making it happen. He’s the graffiti artist who turned subway tags into fine art\, showing his work most recently at the Saatchi Gallery in London; the visionary behind the first hip-hop movie; the bridge between Jean-Michel Basquiat and the downtown punk scene; the first person to take rap global on MTV as the original host of Yo! MTV Raps; the director behind iconic music videos for Snoop Dog\, Nas\, Queen Latifah\, and KRS-One; and\, of course\, the inspiration for the opening rhyme of Blondie’s number one smash hit “Rapture”—the song that propelled hip-hop from the Bronx to popular culture for the first time. With a spirit of joyful creativity\, he shattered racial and artistic boundaries\, bridging worlds and bringing underground movements to the mainstream. \nVibrant\, rhapsodic\, and compulsively readable\, Everybody’s Fly is a love letter to the art of seeing\, a fascinating account of an inimitable creative life\, and a celebration of what it means to shape culture. \nFab will be in conversation with Theaster Gates\, world-renowned artist\, archivist\, social innovator\, and professor and Special Advisor to the President at the University of Chicago. Gates creates work that focuses on space theory and land development\, sculpture\, and performance. \nBonus Book Giveaway: FAN is giving away copies of Everybody’s Fly to attendees\, while supplies last. \nThis event is suitable for youth ages 12 and up. It will be recorded but not live streamed and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/everybodys-fly-art-music-and-changing-the-culture/
LOCATION:Evanston Township High School Auditorium\, 1600 Dodge Ave\, Evanston\, IL\, 60201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260310T190000
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CREATED:20260225T144717Z
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SUMMARY:THE FIRST EIGHT: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE PIONEERING BLACK CONGRESSMEN WHO SHAPED A NATION
DESCRIPTION:Today\, South Carolina Congressman James E. Clyburn (SC-06) is renowned as a Democratic kingmaker and one of the most distinguished Black political leaders in American history. But behind him stand eight other remarkable men: the first Black politicians elected to Congress from his home state\, who blazed the path for his own ascent. Since arriving in Congress in the early nineties\, Congressman Clyburn has been guided by their wisdom and example — and sobered by their struggles\, particularly against the enduring demon of American racism. \nSouth Carolina’s first eight Black congressmen all rose to office in the wake of the Civil War and emancipation — only to see their gains extinguished as the dark veil of Jim Crow fell across the South. It would take nearly a century before the ninth Black representative from the state\, Clyburn himself\, was elected. \nIn The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a Nation\, Rep. Clyburn brings these men’s stories — and their message of liberty — to the nation they served. Among them: Joseph Rainey\, born enslaved in 1832\, who became the first Black politician elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in American history; Robert Smalls\, celebrated for his extraordinary Civil War heroism\, when he commandeered a Confederate vessel and delivered it — and his freedom — to the Union; and Richard Cain\, editor of a widely read newspaper for Black South Carolinians and a figure deeply associated with Emanuel AME Church\, one of the oldest and most distinguished Black churches in America\, and where nine Black congregants were murdered in a racist mass shooting in 2015. \nThrough the trials\, tribulations\, triumphs\, and setbacks all nine men faced\, Rep. Clyburn illuminates a whole new way of understanding the arc from the Civil War to the present day. \nThe First Eight is a singular blend of history and memoir — at once a monument to eight trailblazing Americans\, a meditation on progress\, and a clear-eyed reckoning with how far we have yet to go in our nation’s ongoing struggle for true democracy. \nRep. Clyburn will be in conversation with Natalie Y. Moore\, an award-winning journalist and author and senior lecturer and director of audio programming at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. \nBonus Book Giveaway: FAN is giving away copies of The First Eight to attendees\, while supplies last. \nThis event is suitable for youth ages 12 and up. It will be recorded but not live streamed and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/the-first-eight-a-personal-history-of-the-pioneering-black-congressmen-who-shaped-a-nation/
LOCATION:Evanston Township High School Auditorium\, 1600 Dodge Ave\, Evanston\, IL\, 60201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250514T190000
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SUMMARY:UNFORGIVING PLACES: THE UNEXPECTED ORIGINS OF AMERICAN GUN VIOLENCE
DESCRIPTION:In 2007\, economist Jens Ludwig\, Ph.D.\, moved to the South Side of Chicago to research two big questions: Why does gun violence happen\, and is there anything we can do about it? Almost two decades later\, the answers aren’t what he expected. Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence is Ludwig’s revelatory portrait of gun violence in America’s most famously maligned city. \nDisproving the popular narrative that shootings are the calculated acts of malicious or desperate people\, Ludwig shows how most shootings grow out of a more fleeting source: interpersonal conflict\, especially arguments. By examining why some arguments turn tragic while others don’t\, Ludwig shows gun violence to be more circumstantial—and more solvable—than our traditional approaches lead us to believe. \nDrawing on decades of research and Ludwig’s immersive fieldwork in Chicago\, Unforgiving Places is a breakthrough work at the cutting edge of behavioral economics. As Ludwig shows\, progress on gun violence doesn’t require America to solve every other social problem first; it only requires that we find ways to intervene in the places and the ten-minute windows where human behaviors predictably go haywire. \nLudwig is the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy. He is the Pritzker Director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab\, codirector of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s working group on the economics of crime\, elected member of the National Academy of Medicine\, and a member of the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Academies of Science. His work has been featured in leading peer-reviewed scientific publications as well as national media like the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Wall Street Journal\, NPR\, and PBS NewsHour\, among other outlets. \nLudwig will be in conversation with Christian Mitchell\, Vice President for Civic Engagement for the University of Chicago\, overseeing the Office of Civic Engagement\, including state and local government relations\, as well as the Office of Business Diversity and Commercial Real Estate Operations. \nThis event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded but not live streamed and will be available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/unforgiving-places-the-unexpected-origins-of-american-gun-violence/
LOCATION:Evanston Township High School Auditorium\, 1600 Dodge Ave\, Evanston\, IL\, 60201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network
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SUMMARY:10 TO 25: THE SCIENCE OF MOTIVATING YOUNG PEOPLE
DESCRIPTION:Neuroscientists have discovered that around age ten\, puberty spurs the brain to crave socially rewarding experiences\, such as pride\, admiration\, and respect\, and to become highly averse to social pain\, such as humiliation or shame. As a result\, young people are subtly reading between the lines of everything we say\, trying to interpret the hidden implications of our words to find out if we are disrespecting or honoring them. Surprisingly\, this sensitivity to status and respect continues into the mid-twenties. In his first book\, 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People\, acclaimed developmental psychologist David Yeager\, Ph.D. (FAN ’16) helps adults develop an ear for the difference between the right and wrong way to respect young people and avoid frustrating patterns of miscommunication and conflict. \nYeager explains how to adopt what he terms the mentor mindset\, which is a leadership style attuned to young people’s need for status and respect. Anyone can adopt the mentor mindset by following a few highly effective and easy-to-learn practices such as validating young people’s perspectives (rather than dismissing them)\, asking them questions (rather than telling them what to do)\, being transparent about your beliefs and goals (rather than assuming that they will accurately guess your thoughts)\, and holding them to high standards (rather than coddling them). Yeager’s pioneering research and interventions have shown these practices reduce a wide variety of behavior problems\, including school dropout\, unhealthy eating\, stress\, purposelessness\, mental health problems\, and more. \nBONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY of 10 to 25 at the event\, while supplies last. \n“David Yeager has spent his career designing experiments that inspire students to aim higher\, persist longer\, and achieve more. His engaging\, data-driven book is filled with practical insights to turn you into a better motivator.” – Adam Grant\, Ph.D. (FAN ’14\, ’16) “10 to 25 offers actionable advice and real-life storytelling that’s beautifully written\, comprehensive\, and filled with warmth.” – Angela Duckworth\, Ph.D. (FAN ’12\, ’16) \nThis event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded but not live streamed and will be available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/10-to-25-the-science-of-motivating-young-people/
LOCATION:Evanston Township High School Auditorium\, 1600 Dodge Ave\, Evanston\, IL\, 60201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network
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SUMMARY:The Civil Rights Act at 60: Is Martin Luther King\, Jr.’s Dream for Chicago and the Country Attainable?
DESCRIPTION:Sixty years ago\, Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. pushed for the successful passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964\, the signature legislation of the Civil Rights Movement. With that victory\, Dr. King turned his attention north\, where he helped lead the Chicago Freedom Movement\, a coalition of organizations that addressed the range of ills connected to residential segregation and economic inequality in Chicago. Though short-lived\, the Chicago Freedom Movement is credited with inspiring the 1968 Fair Housing Act. This event takes stock of Dr. King’s legacy in Chicago and the nation\, offering views on how far we’ve come\, what work remains\, and how best to carry out that work. \nFor this lively and wide-ranging discussion\, FAN is collaborating with the brand-new Stanford Institute for Advancing Just Societies\, led by founding co-directors Tomás R. Jiménez\, Ph.D. and Brian Lowery\, Ph.D. (FAN ’23). Together\, we are honored to welcome two acclaimed leaders as panelists: award-winning author Lerone A. Martin\, Ph.D.\, Professor in Religious Studies and African & African American Studies at Stanford University and director of Stanford’s Martin Luther King\, Jr. Research and Education Institute\, and Vaughn Bryant\, executive director of Chicago-based Metropolitan Peace Initiatives (MPI)\, an organization that provides services to heal communities at the highest risk for gun violence. MPI’s core specialties include the Metropolitan Peace Academy\, behavioral health\, workforce readiness\, legal aid\, and street outreach supervision. \nModerating the panel will be Natalie Y. Moore\, an award-winning journalist covering segregation and inequality for WBEZ\, Chicago’s NPR affiliate. Her reporting tackles race\, housing\, economic development\, food injustice\, and violence and her work has been broadcast on the BBC and Marketplace\, and on NPR’s Morning Edition\, All Things Considered\, and Weekend Edition. She is the author of The Billboard and The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/the-civil-rights-act-at-60-is-martin-luther-king-jr-s-dream-for-chicago-and-the-country-attainable/
LOCATION:Evanston Township High School Auditorium\, 1600 Dodge Ave\, Evanston\, IL\, 60201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Family Action Network
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231026T190000
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SUMMARY:FAN IN-PERSON: Basics with Babish: Recipes for Screwing Up\, Trying Again\, and Hitting It Out of the Park
DESCRIPTION:No registration required \nIn his wildly popular Basics with Babish series\, YouTube star Andrew Rea\, who has amassed millions of subscribers\, attempts\, often fails\, but always teaches cooking techniques for all levels of cooks. He’s explained everything from how to make challah bread and English muffins to Asian dumplings and homemade bacon. Now those classic\, essential recipes (and many more) are compiled into Basics with Babish: Recipes for Screwing Up\, Trying Again\, and Hitting It Out of the Park\, an authoritative cookbook which contains hundreds of step-by-step photographs with tips and tricks to help you troubleshoot anything from broken butter to burnt bread to bony branzino. Basics with Babish isn’t just a kitchen Bible for a new generation of home chefs\, it’s a proud reclamation of mistakes which encourages you to learn from your and Andrew’s missteps alike. \nRea launched Binging with Babish on YouTube in 2016\, recreating and reimagining dishes from famous television programs and movies inspired by everything from Mad Men to The Simpsons to Game of Thrones – it now has over 10 million subscribers and growing. The tie-in cookbook\, Binging with Babish\, was an instant New York Times bestseller\, and fans of that book and countless more will delight in this new cookbook which will truly teach you how to cook\, with Rea’s beloved sense of humor and guiding hand throughout. \nRea’s YouTube channel\, Babish Culinary Universe\, has grown into one of the most successful and widely viewed on the platform with a new companion instructional cooking series\, Basics with Babish. At the heart of everything produced from his home kitchen and studio in Brooklyn\, New York\, is a passion for learning\, connecting\, and pushing himself and others outside of their comfort zone. \nRea will be in conversation with Sawyer Jacobs\, Andrew’s lifelong friend and business partner. Before working at Babish\, Sawyer was an intellectual property attorney representing media clients such as Condé Nast\, reddit\, Inc.\, and The Newark Star Ledger. \nThis event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded but not live streamed and will be available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel. \nBONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY of Basics with Babish at the event\, while supplies last. No registration required.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/fan-in-person-basics-with-babish-recipes-for-screwing-up-trying-again-and-hitting-it-out-of-the-park/
LOCATION:Evanston Township High School Auditorium\, 1600 Dodge Ave\, Evanston\, IL\, 60201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adults,Age,Family & Kids,Family Action Network,Speakers
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SUMMARY:FAN- Quietly Hostile: A Conversation with Samantha Irby
DESCRIPTION:Beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wow\, No Thank You\, Samantha Irby has returned to the printed page with Quietly Hostile\, a much-anticipated new collection of side-splitting essays\, and not a moment too soon. Irby’s career has taken her to new heights. She dodges calls from Hollywood and flop sweats on the red carpet at premieres (well\, one premiere). But nothing is ever as it seems online\, where she can crop out all the ugly parts. \nIrby got a lot of weird emails about Carrie Bradshaw\, and not only is there diarrhea to avoid\, but now—anaphylactic shock. She is turned away from restaurants for being inappropriately dressed and looks for the best ways to cope\, i.e.\, reveling in the offerings of QVC and adopting a deranged pandemic dog. Filled with such unabashed gems as advice for the bathroom etiquette you were dying to know but always too afraid to ask about and an exposé on how to speak with an actual teenager\, Quietly Hostile makes light as Irby takes us on another outrageously funny tour of all the gory details that make up the true portrait of a life behind the screenshotted depression memes. Relatable\, poignant\, and uproarious\, once again\, Irby is the tonic we all need to get by. \nIrby writes the blog bitches gotta eat\, and has several bestselling essay collections\, including the New York Times #1 bestseller Wow\, No Thank You and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. She was a writer and co-producer on And Just Like That …\, the HBO reboot of Sex and the City. Irby is an Evanston Township High School alum. \nIrby will be in conversation with Megan Stielstra\, the author of three collections: Everyone Remain Calm\, Once I Was Cool\, and The Wrong Way to Save Your Life\, the Nonfiction Book of the Year Award from the Chicago Review of Books. A longtime company member with 2ndStory\, she has told stories for National Public Radio\, the Museum of Contemporary Art\, and regularly with the Paper Machete live news magazine at the Green Mill. She teaches creative nonfiction at Northwestern University and is an editor-at-large with Northwestern University Press. \nThis event suitable for youth 16+. The event will be recorded but not live streamed. The video will be available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel. \nThis event is presented by Family Action Network (FAN). Gorton Center is proud to partner with FAN as a sponsor of this event to bring this programming to our patrons. 
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/fan-quietly-hostile-a-conversation-with-samantha-irby/
LOCATION:Evanston Township High School Auditorium\, 1600 Dodge Ave\, Evanston\, IL\, 60201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:FAN- Selfless: The Social Creation of “You”
DESCRIPTION:There’s nothing we spend more time with\, but understand less\, than ourselves. You’ve been with yourself every waking moment of your life. But who—or\, rather\, what—are you? In Selfless: The Social Creation of “You\,” social psychologist and Stanford University professor Brian Lowery\, Ph.D. argues for the radical idea that the “self” as we know it—that “voice in your head”—is a social construct\, created in our relationships and social interactions. We are unique because our individual pattern of relationships is unique. We change because our relationships change. Your self isn’t just you\, it’s all around you. \nProf. Lowery uses this research-driven perspective of selfhood to explore questions of inequity\, race\, gender\, politics\, and power structures\, transforming our perceptions of how the world is and how it could be. His theory offers insight into how powerful people manage their environment in sophisticated\, often unconscious\, ways to maintain the status quo; explains our competing drives for deep social connection and personal freedom; and answers profound\, personal questions such as: Why has my sense of self evolved over time? Why do I sometimes stop short of changes that I want to make in life? \nIn Selfless\, Prof. Lowery persuasively breaks down common assumptions and beliefs; his insights are humbling. Despite what many may think\, we aren’t islands unto ourselves; we are the creation of the many hands that touch us. We don’t just exist in communities\, we are created and shaped by them. Our highs and lows are not only our own but belong to others as well. By recognizing that we are products of relationships—from fleeting transactions to deep associations—we shatter the myth of individualism and free ourselves to make our lives and the world accordingly. \nProf. Lowery is the Walter Kenneth Kilpatrick Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business\, and the co-director of Stanford’s new Institute on Race. He also hosts the podcast Know What You See. He will be in conversation with Marcus Campbell\, Ed.D.\, Superintendent of Evanston Township High School D202. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. The event will be recorded but not live streamed. The video will be available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel. \nNO REGISTRATION REQUIRED \nThis event is presented by Family Action Network (FAN). Gorton Center is proud to partner with FAN as a sponsor of this event to bring this programming to our patrons. 
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/fan-selfless-the-social-creation-of-you/
LOCATION:Evanston Township High School Auditorium\, 1600 Dodge Ave\, Evanston\, IL\, 60201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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