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SUMMARY:ASSEMBLING TOMORROW: A GUIDE TO DESIGNING A THRIVING FUTURE
DESCRIPTION:We live in an era of runaway design where the possibilities of new technologies—like generative AI and synthetic biology—are near limitless\, but so are the perils. Even the most well-intentioned and transformative innovations can go haywire\, jeopardizing our work and our world. In Assembling Tomorrow: A Guide to Designing a Thriving Future\, a provocative and deeply hopeful new manifesto\, Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley\, the Academic and Creative Directors at the Stanford d.school\, pair speculative fiction with practical guidance to show how to build a world worth living in rather than one that tears us apart. \nAssembling Tomorrow grapples with the future of technology\, ecology\, biology\, work\, politics\, food\, parenting\, interpersonal relationships\, and more. From the effects of social media to the uncertainty of AI and the consequences of climate change\, the outcomes of our creations ripple across our lives\, and we are now at a critical moment where we must consider: What does a thriving future look like? How could we design it thoughtfully and creatively if we were tasked with doing so? The book is poised to redefine the discourse on design and innovation\, offering a roadmap for creating a future that we can all proudly inhabit. \nAssembling Tomorrow is the highly anticipated capstone for a 12-book series on design from Stanford’s d.school. Over the past few years\, FAN has hosted events in support of d.school books Creative Acts for Curious People\, You Need a Manifesto and Design for Belonging. \nCo-authors Carter\, a designer\, geoscientist\, and the academic director at the d.school\, and Doorley\, a writer\, designer\, and the creative director at the d.school\, will be in conversation with Liz Gerber\, Ph.D. (FAN ’13\, ’16)\, a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University\, co-director of Northwestern’s Center for Human Computer Interaction + Design\, and faculty founder of Design for America. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel. \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Assembling Tomorrow from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Carter\, Doorley\, and Gerber that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/assembling-tomorrow-a-guide-to-designing-a-thriving-future/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240930T200000
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SUMMARY:HOLDING IT TOGETHER: HOW WOMEN BECAME AMERICA'S SOCIAL SAFETY NET
DESCRIPTION:America runs on women—women who are tasked with holding society together at the seams and fixing it when things fall apart. In this tour de force\, acclaimed sociologist Jessica Calarco\, Ph.D. lays bare the devastating consequences of our status quo. \nHolding it Together: How Women Became America’s Social Safety Net draws on five years of research in which Calarco\, a sociologist and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, surveyed over 4\,000 parents and conducted more than 400 hours of interviews with women who bear the brunt of our broken system. Tracing present-day policies back to their roots\, Calarco reveals a systematic agreement to dismantle our country’s social safety net and persuade citizens to accept precarity while women bear the brunt. She leads us to see women’s labor as the reason we’ve gone so long without the support systems that our peer nations take for granted\, and how women’s work maintains the illusion that we don’t need a net. \nCalarco’s research focuses on education\, families\, and health decision-making. She is interested in the structures of power and privilege that maintain socioeconomic\, racial\, and gender inequalities in these settings\, as well as the role that qualitative methods can play in uncovering these mechanisms. \nCalarco will be in conversation with Heidi Stevens\, Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health\, and creative director for Parent Nation\, an initiative of the TMW Center. Prior to joining TMW\, Stevens worked at the Chicago Tribune for 23 years\, where she wrote a daily column called “Balancing Act.” She maintains a weekly nationally syndicated column. Stevens also serves as a FAN board member. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel. \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Holding It Together from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Calarco and Stevens that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page \n“Holding It Together is both an authoritative indictment of current and past US social policy and an empathetic\, unsettling portrait of American motherhood.” – Jennifer Breheny Wallace\, FAN ‘23
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/holding-it-together-how-women-became-americas-social-safety-net/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240926T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240926T200000
DTSTAMP:20240905T145109Z
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SUMMARY:HOPE FOR CYNICS: THE SURPRISING SCIENCE OF HUMAN GOODNESS
DESCRIPTION:In 1972\, half of Americans agreed that most people can be trusted; by 2018\, only a third did. Different generations\, genders\, religions\, and political parties all think human virtue is evaporating. Cynicism is an understandable response to a world full of injustice and inequality. But in many cases\, it is misplaced. Dozens of studies find that people fail to realize how kind\, generous\, and open-minded others really are. Cynical thinking deepens social problems: when we expect the worst in people\, we often bring it out of them. \nWe don’t have to remain stuck in this cynicism trap. Through science and storytelling\, Jamil Zaki\, Ph.D. (FAN ’19)\, director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory and author of the new book Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness\, imparts the secret for beating back cynicism: hopeful skepticism—thinking critically about people and our problems\, while honoring and encouraging our strengths. Far from being naïve\, hopeful skepticism is a precise way of understanding others that can rebalance our view of human nature and help us build the world we truly want. \nZaki will be in conversation with Robert Sapolsky\, Ph.D.\, the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Biology\, Neurology\, and Neurosurgery at Stanford University\, as well as a research associate at the Institute of Primate Research\, National Museums of Kenya. His books for non-scientists include Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress\, Stress-Related Diseases\, and Coping; Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst; and most recently\, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel. \nBONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of Hope for Cynics to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page. \n“With rigorous scientific research and fascinating narratives\, Zaki challenges the belief that humanity is inherent selfish\, and advocates\, instead\, for a ‘hopeful skepticism’ that creates a better world.” – Charles Duhigg (FAN ’24)
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/hope-for-cynics-the-surprising-science-of-human-goodness/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240925T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240925T200000
DTSTAMP:20240905T142634Z
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SUMMARY:CLASS DISMISSED: WHEN COLLEGES IGNORE INEQUALITY AND STUDENTS PAY THE PRICE
DESCRIPTION:Elite colleges are boasting unprecedented numbers with respect to diversity\, with some schools admitting their first majority-minority classes. But when the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racial unrest gripped the world\, schools scrambled to figure out what to do with the diversity they so fervently recruited. And disadvantaged students suffered. In his new book\, Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price\, Anthony Abraham Jack\, Ph.D. (FAN ’19) exposes how woefully unprepared colleges were to support these students and shares their stories of how they were left to weather the storm alone and unprotected. \nDrawing on the firsthand experiences of students from all walks of life at elite colleges\, Jack reveals the hidden and unequal worlds students navigated before and during the pandemic closures and upon their return to campus. He shows how COVID-19 exacerbated the very inequalities that universities ignored or failed to address long before campus closures. Jack examines how students dealt with the disruptions caused by the pandemic\, how they navigated social unrest\, and how they grappled with problems of race both on campus and off. \nJack will be in conversation with Jeff Selingo (FAN ’20\, ’21\, ’22)\, New York Times bestselling author of three books on education and the job market. For more than twenty-five years\, Selingo’s in-depth reporting and storytelling have provided practical insight about the future of higher education and the workforce to university leaders\, corporate executives\, as well as students and parents. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel. \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Class Dismissed from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Jack and Selingo that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page. \n“Jack powerfully illuminates the aspects of the student experience that exist beyond the gloss of the university brochure\, showing how inequality reverberates both on and off campus and providing readers with specific frameworks for what equitable university policies could look like.” – Clint Smith\, Ph.D. (FAN ’23)
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/class-dismissed-when-colleges-ignore-inequality-and-students-pay-the-price/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240919T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240919T200000
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SUMMARY:DISMANTLING MASS INCARCERATION: A HANDBOOK FOR CHANGE
DESCRIPTION:In this pathbreaking reader\, three of the nation’s leading advocates—Premal Dharia\, James Forman Jr.\, and Maria Hawilo—provide tools to move from despair and critique to hope and action. Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change surveys various approaches to confronting the carceral state\, exploring bold but practical interventions involving police\, prosecutors\, public defenders\, judges\, prisons\, and even life after prison. Rather than prescribing solutions\, the book offers a forum for discussions—and disagreements—about how to best confront the harms of mass incarceration. The contributors range from noted figures such as Angela Y. Davis\, Clint Smith\, Ph.D. (FAN ’23)\, Emily Bazelon (FAN ’13\, ’19)\, and Larry Krasner to local organizers\, advocates\, scholars\, lawyers\, and judges\, as well as people who have been incarcerated. \nDharia\, a former public defender\, is the executive director of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration at Harvard Law School and co-editor in chief of the online publication Inquest. \nForman is a professor of law at Yale Law School. He is the author of the Pulitzer Prize―winning Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. \nHawilo is Distinguished Professor in Residence\, Loyola University Chicago School of Law. She formerly served as Clinical Assistant Professor of Law in the Bluhm Legal Clinic at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. She previously served as a supervising attorney for the District of Columbia’s Public Defender Service. \nDharia\, Forman\, and Hawilo will be in conversation with W. David Ball\, a full-time member of the Santa Clara University School of Law faculty and co-chair of the Corrections Committee of the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel. \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Dismantling Mass Incarceration from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by the four panelists that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page. \nIn recent years\, a searching national conversation has called attention to the social and racial injustices that define America’s criminal system. But despite growing movements for change\, the vast machinery of the carceral state remains very much intact. How can its damage and depredations be undone? \n 
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/dismantling-mass-incarceration-a-handbook-for-change/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240917T190000
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SUMMARY:ABOVE THE NOISE: MY STORY OF CHASING CALM
DESCRIPTION:DeMar DeRozan\, six-time NBA All-Star\, has been called a “basketball savant” (ESPN) and “the best closer in the NBA” (GQ)—but when he went public with his depression\, it sparked a conversation that reached far beyond the court. By breaking the stigma of speaking out\, he added a new\, seldom-heard voice to the mental health dialogue: a successful Black male athlete\, openly naming his pain and advocating for others to do the same. \nNow it’s time to tell the full story. Born and raised in Compton\, DeRozan was no stranger to hardship—living in poverty\, losing friends to gang violence. In worn-out school gyms and community centers\, fueled by hunger and a desire to prove himself\, he started to rise\, but doubts followed. In Above the Noise: My Story of Chasing Calm\, DeRozan opens up about his proudest triumphs and the times he felt so weighed down he couldn’t get out of bed. He reflects on what it took to make a name for himself in a new country after getting drafted by the Toronto Raptors\, the pressure of playing with veteran athletes as a twenty-year-old rookie\, and the pain of losing role models. \nFrom a scared\, angry kid to a confident father of five\, DeRozan traces his journey to basketball stardom and the forces that honed him into the player—and the slowly healing person—he is today. It will encourage anyone who has ever felt alone in their struggles and inspire people to rise above the noise and speak their truth. \nDeRozan will be in conversation with a New York Times bestselling poet\, essayist\, cultural critic\, and 2021 MacArthur Fellow Hanif Abdurraqib (FAN ’21\, ’24). FAN hosted Abdurraqib in 2021 in support of his award-winning book A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance\, and also for his most recent book\, 2024’s There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel. \nBONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of Above the Noise to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page. \n“As men\, and especially Black men\, we don’t talk about our mental health enough. We struggle to admit when things aren’t okay\, even when it’s obvious to everybody around us. I’ve seen how toxic that can become. I’ve experienced it myself\, keeping everything under wraps until your head and heart are full of fire and rage.” – DeMar DeRozan
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/above-the-noise-my-story-of-chasing-calm/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240528T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240528T200000
DTSTAMP:20240523T125734Z
CREATED:20240510T190747Z
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SUMMARY:A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
DESCRIPTION:In A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery\, Lawrence Ingrassia weaves his moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research\, delivering an intimate\, gripping tale that sits at the intersection of memoir and medical thriller. Ingrassia lost his mother\, two sisters\, brother\, and nephew to cancer—different cancers developing at different points throughout their lives. And while highly unusual\, his family is not the only one to wonder whether their heartbreak is the result of unbelievable bad luck\, or if there might be another explanation. \nThrough meticulous research and riveting storytelling\, Ingrassia takes us from the 1960s—when Frederick Pei Li\, MD and Joseph Fraumeni Jr.\, MD first met\, not yet knowing that they would help make a groundbreaking discovery that would affect cancer patients for decades to come—to present day\, as Ingrassia and countless others continue to unpack and build upon Li and Fraumeni’s initial discoveries\, and to understand what this means for their families. \nIngrassia is an author and award-winning journalist\, having worked as a senior editor at the New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, and Los Angeles Times before retiring from newspapers in 2017. In Ihis decades-long newspaper career\, journalists directed by him won five Pulitzer Prizes – for national reporting\, explanatory reporting\, international reporting\, and commentary – as well as Polk\, Loeb and other awards. \nIngrassia will be in conversation with Joanne Lipman\, a pioneering journalist and the bestselling author of Next! The Power of Reinvention in Life and Work and the No. 1 bestseller That’s What She Said: What Men and Women Need to Know About Working Together. She has served as Editor-in-Chief of USA Today\, USA Today Network\, Conde Nast Portfolio\, and The Wall Street Journal’s Weekend Journal\, leading those organizations to six Pulitzer Prizes. She is also an on-air CNBC contributor and Yale University journalism lecturer. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/a-fatal-inheritance-how-a-family-misfortune-revealed-a-deadly-medical-mystery/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network,Speakers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240523T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240523T200000
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SUMMARY:Thinking with Your Hands: How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts
DESCRIPTION:We all know people who talk with their hands—but do they know what they’re saying with them? Our gestures can reveal and contradict us and express thoughts we may not even know we’re thinking. \nIn Thinking with Your Hands: How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts\, esteemed cognitive psychologist Susan Goldin-Meadow\, Ph.D.\, the Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago\, argues that gesture is vital to how we think\, learn\, and communicate. She shows us\, for instance\, how the height of our gestures can reveal unconscious bias\, or how the shape of a student’s gestures can track their mastery of a new concept—even when they’re still giving wrong answers. She compels us to rethink everything from how we set child development milestones\, to what’s admissible in a court of law\, to whether Zoom is an adequate substitute for in-person conversation. \nProf. Goldin-Meadow is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, received the William James award for lifetime achievement in basic research from the Association for Psychological Society\, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005\, and the National Academy of Sciences in 2020. \nGoldin-Meadow will be in conversation with Carol Dweck\, Ph.D. (FAN ’11\, ’14)\, the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of psychology. Prof. Dweck is the author of the widely-acclaimed bestseller Mindset: The New Psychology of Success\, which has been translated into over 40 languages. Her pioneering research on mindsets has led to important innovations in schools and businesses worldwide\, innovations that have increased creativity\, productivity\, inclusion\, and equity. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/thinking-with-your-hands-how-gestures-shape-our-thoughts/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network,Speakers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240521T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240521T190000
DTSTAMP:20240506T153134Z
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SUMMARY:Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold on to What Matters
DESCRIPTION:A new understanding of memory is emerging from the latest scientific research. In Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold on to What Matters\, pioneering neuroscientist and psychologist Charan Ranganath\, Ph.D. radically reframes the way we think about the everyday act of remembering. Combining accessible language with cutting-edge research\, he reveals the surprising ways our brains record the past and how we use that information to understand who we are in the present\, and to imagine and plan for the future. \nAs Prof. Ranganath shows\, memory is a highly transformative force that shapes how we experience the world in often invisible and sometimes destructive ways. Knowing this can help us with daily remembering tasks\, like finding our keys\, and with the challenge of memory loss as we age. What’s more\, when we work with the brain’s ability to learn and reinterpret past events\, we can heal trauma\, shed our biases\, learn faster\, and grow in self-awareness. \nRanganath is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and director of the Dynamic Memory Lab at the University of California at Davis. For over 25 years\, he has studied the mechanisms in the brain that allow us to remember past events\, using brain imaging techniques\, computational modeling\, and studies of patients with memory disorders. \nProf. Ranganath will be in conversation with Gloria Mark\, Ph.D. (FAN ’24)\, Chancellor’s Professor Emerita at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California\, Irvine. Prof. Mark has been a visiting senior researcher at Microsoft Research since 2012. Her recent book is Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance\, Happiness and Productivity\, named by The Globe and Mail as the #1 Best Business and Management book of 2023\, and chosen as the Season 20 selection of the Next Big Idea Book Club. \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Why We Remember from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Prof. Ranganath and Prof. Mark that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel. \n 
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/why-we-remember-unlocking-memorys-power-to-hold-on-to-what-matters/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240520T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240520T200000
DTSTAMP:20240503T202510Z
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SUMMARY:Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (And Why That’s a Good Thing)
DESCRIPTION:Whether we like it or not\, the AI revolution is coming to education. In Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (And Why That’s a Good Thing)\, Salman Khan\, the visionary behind Khan Academy\, explores how artificial intelligence and GPT technology will transform learning\, and offers a road map for teachers\, parents\, and students to navigate this exciting (and sometimes intimidating) new world. \nA pioneer in the field of education technology\, Khan examines the ins and outs of these cutting-edge tools and how they will revolutionize the way we learn and teach. For parents concerned about their children’s success\, Khan illustrates how AI can personalize learning by adapting to each student’s individual pace and style\, identifying strengths and areas for improvement\, and offering tailored support and feedback to complement traditional classroom instruction. Khan emphasizes that embracing AI in education is not about replacing human interaction but enhancing it with customized and accessible learning tools that encourage creative problem-solving skills and prepare students for an increasingly digital world. \nBut Brave New Words is not just about technology—it’s about what this technology means for our society\, and the practical implications for administrators\, guidance counselors\, and hiring managers who can harness the power of AI in education and the workplace. Khan also delves into the ethical and social implications of AI and large language models\, offering thoughtful insights into how we can use these tools to build a more accessible education system for students around the world. \nKhan will be in conversation with Angela Duckworth\, Ph.D. (FAN ’12\, ’16)\, co-founder of Character Lab\, Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania\, faculty co-director of the Penn-Wharton Behavior Change for Good Initiative\, founding faculty co-director of Wharton People Analytics\, and author of the international bestseller Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/brave-new-words-how-ai-will-revolutionize-education-and-why-thats-a-good-thing/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network,Speakers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240515T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240515T200000
DTSTAMP:20240502T150947Z
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SUMMARY:The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder
DESCRIPTION:Every organization is plagued by destructive friction. Yet some forms of friction are incredibly useful\, and leaders who attempt to improve workplace efficiency often make things even worse. In The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder\, co-authors Robert I. Sutton\, Ph.D. and Huggy Rao\, Ph.D. draw from seven years of hands-on research to teach us how to become “friction fixers.” \nThe Friction Project unpacks how skilled friction fixers think and act like trustees of others’ time. The authors provide friction forensics to help readers identify where to avert and repair bad organizational friction and where to maintain and inject good friction. Then their “help pyramid” shows how friction fixers do their work\, from reframing friction troubles they can’t fix right now\, so they feel less threatening\, to designing and repairing organizations. The heart of the book digs into the causes and solutions for five of the most common and damaging friction troubles: oblivious leaders\, addition sickness\, broken connections\, jargon monoxide\, and fast and frenzied people and teams. \nProf. Sutton is an organizational psychologist and Stanford professor (emeritus) who studies\, writes\, teaches\, and speaks about the interplay between people and organizations. He has written more than 200 academic and practical articles and is a New York Times bestselling author of eight books. He is a co-founder of the Stanford d. School\, Stanford Technology Ventures Program\, and Center for Work\, Technology and Organization. \nProf. Sutton will be in conversation with Liz Gerber\, Ph.D. (FAN ’13\, ’16)\, a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University\, co-director of Northwestern’s Center for Human Computer Interaction + Design\, and faculty founder of Design for America. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/the-friction-project-how-smart-leaders-make-the-right-things-easier-and-the-wrong-things-harder/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network,Speakers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240513T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240513T133000
DTSTAMP:20240502T144512Z
CREATED:20240502T144512Z
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UID:20005979-1715603400-1715607000@gortoncenter.org
SUMMARY:The Algebra of Wealth: Achieving Economic Security
DESCRIPTION:Today’s workers have more opportunities and mobility than any generation before. They also face unprecedented challenges\, including inflation\, labor and housing shortages\, and climate volatility. Even the notion of retirement is undergoing a profound rethink\, as our life spans extend and our relationship with work evolves. In this environment\, the tried-and-true financial advice our parents followed no longer applies. It’s time for a new playbook. \nIn The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security\, Scott Galloway\, professor of marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business and a serial entrepreneur\, lays bare the rules of financial success in today’s economy. In his characteristic unvarnished\, no-BS style\, he explains what you need to know to better your chances for economic security no matter what. \nGalloway has founded nine companies\, including Prophet\, RedEnvelope\, L2\, and Section\, where he also teaches. He is the New York Times bestselling author of The Four\, The Algebra of Happiness\, Post Corona\, and Adrift: America in 100 Charts. He has served on the boards of directors of The New York Times Company\, Urban Outfitters\, University of California/Berkeley’s Haas School of Business\, Panera Bread\, and Ledger. He has won multiple Webby and Best Podcast awards\, and his books have been translated into 28 languages. Across his Prof G and Pivot podcasts\, No Mercy/No Malice newsletter\, and his YouTube channel\, Galloway reaches millions. \nGalloway will be in conversation with Adam Alter\, Ph.D. (FAN ’17\, ’23)\, Professor of Marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business and the Robert Stansky Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellow\, with an affiliated appointment in the New York University Psychology Department. Prof. alter is the author of multiple bestsellers\, including Anatomy of a Breakthrough\, Irresistible\, and Drunk Tank Pink. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/the-algebra-of-wealth-achieving-economic-security/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network,Speakers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240508T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240508T170000
DTSTAMP:20240430T191628Z
CREATED:20240429T150153Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240430T191628Z
UID:20005970-1715155200-1715187600@gortoncenter.org
SUMMARY:Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World
DESCRIPTION:It’s hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change\, especially if we think of it as an impending planetary catastrophe. In Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World\, R. Jisung Park\, Ph.D.\, an environmental and labor economist at the University of Pennsylvania\, encourages us to view climate change through a different lens: one that focuses less on the possibility of mass climate extinction in a theoretical future\, and more on the everyday implications of climate change here and now. \nDrawing on a wealth of new data and cutting-edge economics\, Prof. Park shows how climate change headlines often miss some of the most important costs. When wildfires blaze\, what happens to people downwind of the smoke? When natural disasters destroy buildings and bridges\, what happens to educational outcomes? Park explains how climate change operates as the silent accumulation of a thousand tiny conflagrations: imperceptibly elevated health risks spread across billions of people; pennies off the dollar of productivity; fewer opportunities for upward mobility. \nBy investigating how the physical phenomenon of climate change interacts with social and economic institutions\, Park illustrates how climate change already affects everyone\, and may act as an amplifier of inequality. Wealthier households and corporations may adapt quickly\, but\, without targeted interventions\, less advantaged communities may not. Viewing climate change as a slow and unequal burn comes with an important silver lining. It puts dollars and cents behind the case for aggressive emissions cuts and helps identify concrete steps that can be taken to better manage its adverse effects. \nProf. Park received a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University\, where he was an NSF Fellow\, and master’s degrees in Environmental Change and Management (MSc) and Development Economics (MSc) from the University of Oxford\, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He will be in conversation with Robert Frank\, Ph.D. (FAN ’22)\, the H. J. Louis Professor Emeritus of Management and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management. \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Slow Burn from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Prof. Park that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/slow-burn-the-hidden-costs-of-a-warming-world/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network,Speakers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240506T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240506T200000
DTSTAMP:20240430T191627Z
CREATED:20240429T145631Z
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UID:20005969-1715022000-1715025600@gortoncenter.org
SUMMARY:The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations
DESCRIPTION:In this timely\, powerful\, investigative history\, The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations\, Emmy Award-nominated journalist David Montero follows the trail of the massive wealth amassed by Northern corporations throughout America’s history of enslavement. It has long been maintained by many that the North wasn’t complicit in the horrors of slavery. The truth\, however\, is that large Northern banks—including well-known institutions like Citibank\, Bank of New York\, and Bank of America—were critical to the financing of slavery; that they saw their fortunes rise dramatically from their involvement in the business of enslavement; and that white business leaders and their surrounding communities created enormous wealth from the enslavement and abuse of Black bodies. \nMost white Southern enslavers were not rich—many were barely making ends meet—with Northern businesses benefitting the most from bondage-based profits. And some of the very Northerners who would be considered pro-Union during the Civil War were in fact anti-abolition\, seeing the institution of slavery as being in their best financial interests\, and only supporting the Union once they realized doing so would be good for business. It is a myth that the wealth generated from slavery vanished after the war. Rather\, it helped finance the industrialization of the country\, and became part of the bedrock of the growth of modern corporations\, helping to transform America into a global economic behemoth. \nIn this remarkable book\, Montero elegantly and meticulously details rampant Northern investment in slavery. He showcases exactly what was stolen\, who stole it\, and to whom it is owed\, calling for corporate reparations as he details contemporary movements to hold companies accountable for past atrocities. \nMontero will be in conversation with Michael Eric Dyson\, Ph.D.\, Distinguished University Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University and author of 25 books\, including 7 New York Times bestsellers\, among them Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America. \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of The Stolen Wealth of Slavery from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Mr. Montero and Prof. Dyson that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/the-stolen-wealth-of-slavery-a-case-for-reparations/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network,Speakers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240422T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240422T200000
DTSTAMP:20240422T145008Z
CREATED:20240422T145006Z
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SUMMARY:Radical Respect: How to Work Together Better
DESCRIPTION:How we can recognize\, attack\, and eliminate workplace injustice―and transform our careers and organizations in the process? We―all of us―consistently exclude\, underestimate\, and underutilize huge numbers of people in the workforce even as we include\, overestimate\, and promote others\, often beyond their level of competence. Not only is this immoral and unjust\, but it’s also bad for business. Radical Respect is the solution. \nRadical Respect: How to Work Together Better is Kim Scott’s new book\, revealing a practical framework for both respecting everyone’s individuality and collaborating effectively. This is the essential guide leaders and their employees need to create more just workplaces and establish new norms of collaboration and respect. \nScott is the co-founder of Radical Candor\, a company to help leaders build more radically candid organizations. She is the author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity. She was a CEO coach at Dropbox\, Qualtrics\, Twitter\, and other tech companies. She was a member of the faculty at Apple University and before that led AdSense\, YouTube\, and DoubleClick teams at Google. \nScott will be in conversation with Heidi Stevens\, Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health\, and creative director for Parent Nation\, an initiative of the TMW Center. Prior to joining TMW\, Stevens worked at the Chicago Tribune for 23 years\, where she wrote a daily column called “Balancing Act.” She maintains a weekly nationally syndicated column. Stevens also serves as a FAN board member. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/radical-respect-how-to-work-together-better/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240418T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240418T200000
DTSTAMP:20240411T200421Z
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SUMMARY:Everything No One Tells You About Parenting a Disabled Child
DESCRIPTION:According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\, a baby is born with a birth defect every 4½ minutes. One of those children was Kelley Coleman’s son\, born with a rare (and still undiagnosed) genetic syndrome. Feeling equal parts terrified and alone\, she soon learned that no one tells parents how to do any of this. In her new book\, Everything No One Tells You About Parenting a Disabled Child: Your Guide to the Essential System\, Services\, and Supports\, Coleman\, a feature film development executive turned author and passionate advocate for parent caregivers and individuals with disabilities\, turns her hard-earned expertise into the much needed “You Are Here” on the map of this unexpected journey. \nPresented with empathy and humor\, the book gives parents the tools to navigate the complex medical\, educational\, and social service systems necessary for disabled children to thrive. This is “been there\, tried that” insider information about diagnosis\, working with your medical team\, insurance\, school\, financial and future planning\, disability rights\, and advocacy. \nColeman will be in conversation with Lindsay Crain\, head of Content and Community at Undivided\, an organization with a mission to support and empower parents raising children with disabilities. As the parent of a teenager with cerebral palsy\, Crain is driven to build and reinforce systems and practices that create a more inclusive culture. She is currently serving as a Community Representative on the CA State Interagency Coordinating Council on Early Intervention. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel. \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Everything No One Tells You About Parenting a Disabled Child from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Ms. Coleman that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/fan-everything-no-one-tells-you-about-parenting-a-disabled-child/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Family Action Network
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240411T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240411T200000
DTSTAMP:20240411T200059Z
CREATED:20240222T161422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T200059Z
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SUMMARY:There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
DESCRIPTION:There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension is award-winning poet\, essayist\, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib’s poignant\, personal reflection on basketball\, talent\, and allegiance\, and of course\, LeBron James. Growing up in Columbus\, Ohio in the 1990s\, Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball\, one in which legends like LeBron were forged\, and countless others weren’t. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical\, historical\, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make it\, who we think deserves success\, the tensions between excellence and expectation\, and the very notion of role models\, all of which he expertly weaves together with intimate\, personal storytelling. “Here is where I would like to tell you about the form on my father’s jump shot\,” Abdurraqib writes. “The truth\, though\, is that I saw my father shoot a basketball only one time.” \nThere’s Always This Year is a triumph\, brimming with joy\, pain\, solidarity\, comfort\, outrage\, and hope. No matter the subject of his keen focus – whether it’s basketball\, music\, or performance — Abdurraqib’s exquisite writing is always poetry\, always profound\, and always a clarion call to radically reimagine how we think about our culture\, our country\, and ourselves. \nAbdurraqib (FAN ’21) will be in conversation with Ross Gay\, Ph.D. (FAN ’23)\, the New York Times bestselling author of the essay collections The Book of (More) Delights\, The Book of Delights\, and Inciting Joy and four books of poetry. His Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award; and Be Holding won the 2021 PEN America Jean Stein Book Award. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel. \nBONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of There’s Always This Year to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/fan-theres-always-this-year-on-basketball-and-ascension/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Family Action Network
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240318T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240318T200000
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SUMMARY:FAN: Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story
DESCRIPTION:Leslie Jamison\, Ph.D. has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices\, a scribe of the real\, the true\, the complex. She has been compared to Joan Didion and Susan Sontag\, acclaimed for her powerful thinking\, deep feeling\, and electric prose. But while Jamison has never shied away from challenging material—scouring her own psyche and digging into our most unanswerable questions across four books—Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story enters a new realm. \nIn her first memoir\, Jamison turns her unrivaled powers of perception on some of the most intimate relationships of her life: her consuming love for her young daughter\, a ruptured marriage once swollen with hope\, and the shaping legacy of her own parents’ complicated bond. In examining what it means for a woman to be many things at once—a mother\, an artist\, a teacher\, a lover—Jamison places the magical and the mundane side by side in surprising ways. The result is a work of nonfiction like no other\, an almost impossibly deep reckoning with the muchness of life and art\, and a book that grieves the departure of one love even as it celebrates the arrival of another. \nHow do we move forward into joy when we are haunted by loss? How do we claim hope alongside the harm we’ve caused? A memoir for which the very term tour de force seems to have been coined\, Splinters plumbs these and other pressing questions with writing that is revelatory to the last page\, full of linguistic daring and emotional acuity. \nJamison will be in conversation with Ashley C. Ford\, the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir\, Somebody’s Daughter. Ford is the former co-host of the HBO companion podcast Lovecraft Country Radio\, and the current host of Ben & Jerry’s Into The Mix. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel. \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Splinters from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Jamison and Ford that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/fan-splinters-another-kind-of-love-story/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Family Action Network
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240311T200000
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SUMMARY:FAN: Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House
DESCRIPTION:     Former presidents have an unusual place in American life. King George III believed that George Washington’s departure after two terms made him “the greatest character of the age.” But Alexander Hamilton worried former presidents might “[wander] among the people like ghosts.” They were both right.\n\n     In “Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House\,” New York Times bestselling author Jared Cohen tells the stories of seven former presidents\, from the Founding to today. Each changed history. Each offered lessons about how to decide what to do in the next chapter of life.\nThomas Jefferson was the first former president to accomplish great things after the White House\, shaping public debates and founding the University of Virginia\, an accomplishment he included on his tombstone\, unlike his presidency. John Quincy Adams served in Congress and became a leading abolitionist\, passing the torch to Abraham Lincoln. Grover Cleveland was the only president in American history to serve a nonconsecutive term. William Howard Taft became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Herbert Hoover shaped the modern conservative movement\, led relief efforts after World War II\, reorganized the executive branch\, and reconciled John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Jimmy Carter has had the longest post-presidency in American history\, advancing humanitarian causes\, human rights\, and peace. George W. Bush made a clean break from politics\, bringing back George Washington’s precedent\, and reminding the public that the institution of the presidency is bigger than any person.\nCohen will be in conversation with Elise Jordan\, a communication strategist\, writer\, and political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. Her forthcoming history of General Dwight D. Eisenhower and the women who worked for him during World War II will be published by Knopf in 2025.\n\nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.\n\nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of “Life After Power” from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Cohen that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/fan-life-after-power-seven-presidents-and-their-search-for-purpose-beyond-the-white-house/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Family Action Network
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240307T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240307T200000
DTSTAMP:20240222T154419Z
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SUMMARY:FAN: Holy Shift!: Moving Your Company Forward to the Future of Work
DESCRIPTION:Dan Michelson’s new book\, Holy Shift!: Moving Your Company Forward to the Future of Work\, takes you on a fascinating journey to the heart of the single biggest and fastest shift in how we work and live in history. Readers and leaders at every level of an organization will discover practical ideas and actions that address three big\, thorny questions: How did we get here\, where do we go from here\, and how do we get there? \nA visionary CEO with a track-record of building world-class company cultures\, Michelson combines a reflection of how we got to now with research on how companies are managing this moment to create a roadmap in the form of a strategic framework and pragmatic playbook. Holy Shift! maps three simple steps to create momentum to move your company towards the future of work: 1) See the Shift; 2) Shift Your Mindset; and 3) Make Shift Happen. \nMichelson is the founder and CEO of InCommon\, a “for purpose” company that helps companies turn culture into a strategy that drives productivity and engagement. From 2012 to 2022\, he served as the CEO of Strata\, a 500-person tech company with a mission to help heal healthcare. Prior to Strata\, he spent a decade as the chief marketing officer of Allscripts\, a global leader in healthcare technology. \nMichelson will be in conversation with Sarah Alter\, a national thought leader and role model in the workplace\, serving for six years as the CEO of NextUp\, the largest network of executive women in the country. Alter’s previous experience includes executive roles at Staples\, Discover\, and General Growth Properties. She has been appointed to serve three terms on the Illinois State Lottery Advisory Board. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel. \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Holy Shift! from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Michelson and Alter that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/fan-holy-shift-moving-your-company-forward-to-the-future-of-work/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Family Action Network
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240229T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240229T200000
DTSTAMP:20240201T172647Z
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SUMMARY:FAN: Practical Optimism: The Art\, Science\, and Practice of Exceptional Well-Being
DESCRIPTION:Sue Varma\, MD\, the first medical director treating first responders and civilians for PTSD\, depression\, and anxiety at the World Trade Center Mental Health program (WTC MHP)\, made a fascinating discovery: she realized that fostering an optimistic mindset firmly grounded in reality is crucial for making wise and reasonable decisions. In her debut book\, Practical Optimism: The Art\, Science\, and Practice of Exceptional Well-Being\, Dr. Varma blends philosophy\, personal experiences\, and the latest research in psychology\, psychiatry\, medicine\, and neuroscience to guide readers on a path toward resilience and personal growth. \nOptimists tend to achieve more success\, report higher incomes and job satisfaction\, adopt healthier habits\, build stronger relationships\, and experience greater overall life satisfaction\, ultimately leading to increased happiness. Practical optimists are resourceful\, realistic\, and thoughtful problem solvers who possess something of rare value: the inner resources to cope during a crisis and to use as fuel to flourish. Practical optimism is a transformative approach to experiencing greater meaning\, mastery\, and acceptance. \nDr. Varma is a distinguished psychiatrist and cognitive behavioral therapist based and holds the position of Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at New York University Langone Health. Her accomplishments have been recognized by the American Psychiatric Association\, where she was named a Distinguished Fellow\, the highest honor bestowed upon its members. \nDr. Varma will be in conversation with Tara Lipinski\, the internationally acclaimed American figure skater. At the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Nagano\, Japan\, Lipinski became the youngest female to capture the Olympic gold medal in figure-skating. She now has new roles as a sports commentator\, an actress\, a documentary film producer\, a philanthropist\, and more. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel. \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Practical Optimism from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Varma and Lipinski that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/fan-practical-optimism-the-art-science-and-practice-of-exceptional-well-being/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Family Action Network
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231212T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231212T200000
DTSTAMP:20231130T163227Z
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SUMMARY:FAN: A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence
DESCRIPTION:  \nMary Pipher\, Ph.D. has been seen as the “cultural therapist” of a generation\, and with good reason. Her work has addressed a wide range of issues from environmental concerns to the struggles of refugees. But she is perhaps best known for her work focusing on women. From her #1 New York Times bestseller\, Reviving Ophelia\, which helped explain the unique challenges faced by adolescent girls\, to her most recent New York Times bestseller\, Women Rowing North\, which explores the experiences faced by women as they grow older\, Pipher has been a source of comfort and strength for women at all stages of life. \nPipher’s new memoir in essays\, A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence offers wisdom\, hope\, and insight into loss and change. Drawing from her own experiences and expertise as a psychologist specializing in women\, trauma\, and the effect of our culture on our mental health\, she looks inward in A Life in Light to what shaped her as a woman\, one who has experienced darkness throughout her life but was always drawn to the light. “Resilience is the ability to find light in dark times\,” offers Pipher\, “We build it by our attitudes\, efforts\, and coping skills. All our lives we face crises that require us to grow. Struggle defines and builds us.” \nPipher will be in conversation with Nancy Burgoyne\, Ph.D. (FAN ’21)\, chief clinical officer at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. She is a faculty member in the Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy program\, a licensed clinical psychologist and a family therapist who abides by the scientist-practitioner model. Dr. Burgoyne has more than 30 years of experience providing direct service to clients\, and more than 20 years training\, leading\, and learning alongside her fellow clinicians. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel. \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of A Light in Life from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Drs. Pipher and Burgoyne that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/fan-a-life-in-light-meditations-on-impermanence/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Adults,Age,Events,Family & Kids,Family Action Network,Youth
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231206T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231206T200000
DTSTAMP:20231130T161650Z
CREATED:20231130T161650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231130T161650Z
UID:20005348-1701889200-1701892800@gortoncenter.org
SUMMARY:FAN: On Ambition
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to own one’s ambition? What does it take to reimagine how we strive\, amid burnout\, pressure\, and profound shifts across one’s career\, life\, and wants? \nJoin Maggie Smith (FAN ’20)\, poet and New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful\, and Rainesford Stauffer (FAN ’21)\, journalist and author of All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive\, for a conversation on ambition. From norms of ambition that deem some “too ambitious\,” to what kind of ambition and work are celebrated\, this conversation will focus on how ambition plays out across personal\, professional\, and creative lives–how we shape it\, and how it shapes us. Over the course of their discussion\, Smith and Stauffer will explore ambition\, work\, and identity\, and how those themes come through in their work. \nSmith’s other books include Good Bones\, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison\, Lamp of the Body\, and the national bestsellers Goldenrod and Keep Moving: Notes on Loss\, Creativity\, and Change. A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, she has also received several Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council\, two Academy of American Poets Prizes\, a Pushcart Prize\, and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been widely published\, appearing in The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, The Nation\, The Best American Poetry\, and more. \nStauffer is an author\, journalist\, speaker\, and Kentuckian. She’s the Work in Progress columnist for Teen Vogue and wrote a column for Catapult\, Gold Stars. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times\, Scalawag\, DAME Magazine\, Vox\, and other publications. She is the author of An Ordinary Age and is a 2022-2023 Rosalynn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Journalism. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel. \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Smith’s You Could Make This Place Beautiful and/or Stauffer’s All the Gold Stars from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Smith and Stauffer that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/fan-on-ambition/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Adults,Age,Events,Family Action Network,Youth
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231116T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231116T200000
DTSTAMP:20231026T184447Z
CREATED:20231026T184447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231026T184447Z
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SUMMARY:FAN: The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are
DESCRIPTION:Today Tariq Trotter—better known as Black Thought—is the platinum-selling\, three-time Grammy-winning co-founder of The Roots\, and one of the most exhilaratingly skillful and profound rappers the culture has ever produced. But his story begins with a tragedy: as a child\, Trotter burned down his family’s home. The years that followed are the story of a life snatched from the flames\, forged in fire. \nIn The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are\, Trotter doesn’t just narrate a riveting and moving portrait of the artist as a young man but gives readers a courageous model of what it means to live an examined life. In vivid vignettes\, he tells the dramatic stories of the four powerful relationships that shaped him—community\, friends\, art\, and family—each a complex weave of love\, discovery\, trauma\, and loss. \nBut beyond offering the compellingly poetic account of one artist’s creative and emotional origins\, Trotter explores the vital questions we all must confront about our formative years: How can we see the story of our young lives clearly? How do we use that story to understand who we’ve become? How do we forgive the people who loved and hurt us? How do we rediscover and honor our first dreams? And finally\, what do we take forward\, what do we pass on\, what do we leave behind? This is the beautifully bluesy story of a boy genius’s coming of age that illuminates the redemptive power of the upcycle. \nTrotter is one of the most powerful voices in hip-hop and the winner of three NAACP Image Awards and leads the house band on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\, joined by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson (FAN ’21)\, co-founder of The Roots. \nTrotter will be in conversation with artist\, archivist\, and curator Theaster Gates\, a professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Visual Arts and the College. Prof. Gates creates work that focuses on space theory and land development\, sculpture\, and performance. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel. \nBONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of The Upcycled Self to randomly selected Zoom attendees.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/fan-the-upcycled-self-a-memoir-on-the-art-of-becoming-who-we-are/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Adults,Age,Events,Family & Kids,Family Action Network
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231109T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231109T200000
DTSTAMP:20231026T184730Z
CREATED:20231026T184730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231026T184730Z
UID:20005314-1699556400-1699560000@gortoncenter.org
SUMMARY:FAN: The Career Arts: Making the Most of College\, Credentials\, and Connections
DESCRIPTION:Young people coming out of high school today can expect to hold many jobs over the course of their lives\, which is why they need a range of essential skills. Ben Wildavsky’s new book The Career Arts: Making the Most of College\, Credentials\, and Connections provides a corrective to the widespread and misleading notion that there is a direct trade-off between going to college and acquiring practical job skills. Wildavsky cuts through the noise and anxiety surrounding this issue to offer sensible\, clear-eyed guidance for anyone who is making decisions about education and career preparation with a view to getting ahead in the workforce. \nDrawing on evidence-based research\, illuminating case studies\, and in-depth interviews\, Wildavsky shares the most vital lessons of what he calls the career arts\, which include cultivating a mix of broad and targeted skills\, taking advantage of employer-funded education benefits\, and preparing for the world as it is\, not as you wish it could be. He explains why college remains the gold standard of credentials and presents the most promising high-quality supplements and alternatives to college that can help learners combine general and job-specific skills. He shows how building social capital is also critical to success\, particularly for disadvantaged students. \nWildavsky is a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development. He is the award-winning author of The Great Brain Race and coeditor of Reinventing Higher Education and Measuring Success. He is the host and coproducer of the Higher Ed Spotlight podcast. \nWildavsky will be in conversation with Sara Allan\, the incoming president of the Valhalla Foundation. Before Valhalla\, Allan was the director in the U.S. Education Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She joined the foundation in 2011. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel. \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of The Career Arts from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Wildavsky and Allan that will start immediately after the webinar.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/fan-the-career-arts-making-the-most-of-college-credentials-and-connections/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Adults,Age,Events,Family & Kids,Family Action Network
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231106T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231106T200000
DTSTAMP:20231026T184845Z
CREATED:20231026T184231Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231026T184845Z
UID:20005294-1699297200-1699300800@gortoncenter.org
SUMMARY:FAN: Growing Up in Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World
DESCRIPTION:With social media and constant connection\, the boundaries of privacy are stretched thin. Devorah Heitner\, Ph.D.’s new book Growing Up in Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World shows parents how to help tweens and teens navigate boundaries\, identity\, privacy\, and reputation in their digital world. \nWe can track our kids’ every move with apps\, see their grades within minutes of being posted\, and fixate on their digital footprint\, anxious that a misstep could cause them to be “canceled” or even jeopardize their admission to college. And all of this adds pressure on kids who are coming of age immersed in social media platforms that emphasize “personal brand\,” “likes\,” and “gotcha” moments. How can they figure out who they really are with zero privacy and constant judgment? \nHeitner shows us that by focusing on character\, not the threat of getting caught or exposed\, we can support our kids to be authentically themselves. Drawing on her extensive work with parents and schools as well as hundreds of interviews with kids\, parents\, educators\, clinicians\, and scholars\, Heitner offers strategies for parenting our kids in an always-connected world. \nHeitner will be in conversation with Heidi Stevens\, creative director of Parent Nation\, an initiative of the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health. Prior to joining TMW\, Stevens worked at the Chicago Tribune for 23 years\, where she wrote a daily column called “Balancing Act.” She maintains a weekly nationally syndicated column. Stevens also serves as a FAN board member. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel. \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Growing Up in Public from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Heitner and Stevens that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/fan-growing-up-in-public-coming-of-age-in-a-digital-world/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Adults,Age,Family & Kids,Family Action Network
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231102T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231102T200000
DTSTAMP:20231101T154024Z
CREATED:20231026T183439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231101T154024Z
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SUMMARY:FAN: Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream
DESCRIPTION:Two decades into the twenty-first century\, the stagnation of living standards has become the defining trend of American life. Life expectancy has declined\, economic inequality has soared\, and\, after some progress\, the Black-white wage gap is once again as large as it was in the 1950s. How did this happen in the world’s most powerful country? And what happened to the “American dream”—the promise of a happier\, healthier\, more prosperous future—which was once such an inextricable part of our national identity? \nIn his first book\, Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream\, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer David Leonhardt draws on decades of writing about the economy for The New York Times\, examining the past century of American history\, from the Great Depression to today’s Great Stagnation\, in search of an answer. To make sense of the rise and subsequent fall of the American dream\, Leonhardt tells the story of the modern American economy as an ongoing battle between two competing forms of capitalism: one that envisions prosperity for most\, and one that serves the individual and favors the wealthy. In vivid prose\, Ours Was the Shining Future traces how democratic capitalism flourished to make the American dream possible\, until the latter decades of the twentieth century when\, bit by bit\, the dream was corrupted to serve only the privileged few. Ours Was the Shining Future is a sweeping narrative full of innovation and grit\, human drama and hope. Featuring the trailblazing figures who helped shape the American dream—Frances Perkins\, Paul Hoffman\, Cesar Chavez\, Robert Kennedy\, A. Philip Randolph\, Grace Hopper\, and more—this engaging history reveals the power of grassroots democratic movements from across the political spectrum. And though the American dream feels lost to us now\, Leonhardt shows how Americans—if they commit themselves to transforming the economy\, as they did in the past—have the power to revive the dream once more. \nLeonhardt is a senior writer at The New York Times\, where he writes its flagship newsletter\, “The Morning.” He has also been the newspaper’s Washington bureau chief\, an op-ed columnist\, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine\, and the founding editor of “The Upshot.” \nLeonhardt will be in conversation with Matthew Desmond\, Ph.D. (FAN ’16\, ’23)\, the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology\, and the founder and principal investigator of The Eviction Lab at Princeton University. He is the is the author of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City and Poverty\, by America\, both New York Times bestsellers. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel. \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Ours Was the Shining Future from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Leonhardt that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/fan-ours-was-the-shining-future-the-story-of-the-american-dream/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Adults,Age,Family Action Network
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231101T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231101T200000
DTSTAMP:20231101T153524Z
CREATED:20231026T183103Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231101T153524Z
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SUMMARY:FAN: Women In Science Now: Stories and Strategies for Achieving Equity
DESCRIPTION:  \nWomen working in the sciences face obstacles at virtually every step along their career paths. From subtle slights to blatant biases\, deep systemic problems block women from advancing or push them out of science and technology entirely. Science writer Lisa M.P. Munoz’s new book\, Women in Science Now: Stories and Strategies for Achieving Equity\, examines solutions to this persistent gender gap\, offering new perspectives on how to make science more equitable and inclusive for all. The book shares stories and insights of women from a range of backgrounds working in various disciplines\, illustrating the journeys that brought them to the sciences\, the challenges they faced along the way\, and the important contributions they have made to their fields. Ms. Munoz combines these narratives with a wealth of data to illuminate the size and scope of the challenges women scientists face\, while highlighting research-based solutions to help overcome these obstacles. She presents groundbreaking studies in social psychology and organizational behavior that are informing novel approaches for combating historic and ongoing inequities. \nMs. Munoz is the founder and president of SciComm Services\, a science communications consulting firm. She develops\, leads\, and executes communication strategies for science groups\, including VC funds\, sci-tech startups\, scientific societies and academic research groups\, international organizations\, and other institutions. \nMs. Munoz will be in conversation with Vanessa Bohns\, Ph.D.\, a social psychologist\, professor\, and chair of organizational behavior at the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University (the ILR School)\, and author of the 2021 book You Have More Influence Than You Think: How We Underestimate Our Power of Persuasion\, and Why It Matters. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel. \nBONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Women in Science Now from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Munoz that will start immediately after the webinar\, from 8:05-9:00 PM CT. Details on the webinar registration page.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/fan-women-in-science-now-stories-and-strategies-for-achieving-equity/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Adults,Age,Family Action Network
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231030T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231030T200000
DTSTAMP:20231026T183950Z
CREATED:20231026T183950Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231026T183950Z
UID:20005292-1698692400-1698696000@gortoncenter.org
SUMMARY:FAN: Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
DESCRIPTION:During the impeachment crisis of 2019\, Heather Cox Richardson\, Ph.D.\, professor of history at Boston College\, launched a daily Facebook essay providing the historical background of the daily torrent of news. It soon turned into a popular Substack newsletter\, Letters from an American\, and its subscriber base ballooned to more than two million dedicated readers who rely on her plainspoken and informed take on the present and past in America. \n  \nIn Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America\, Prof. Richardson crafts a compelling and original narrative\, explaining how\, over the decades\, a small group of wealthy people have made war on American ideals. By weaponizing language and promoting false history they have led us into authoritarianism — creating a disaffected population and then promising to recreate an imagined past where those people could feel important again. She argues that taking our country back starts by remembering the elements of the nation’s true history that marginalized Americans have always upheld. Their dedication to the principles on which this nation was founded has enabled us to renew and expand our commitment to democracy in the past. \nProf. Richardson’s talent is to wrangle our giant\, meandering\, and confusing news feed into a coherent story that singles out what we should pay attention to\, what the precedents are\, and what possible paths lie ahead. In her trademark calm prose\, she is realistic and optimistic about the future of democracy. Her command of history allows her to pivot effortlessly from the Founders to the abolitionists to Reconstruction to Goldwater to Mitch McConnell\, highlighting the political legacies of the New Deal\, the lingering fears of socialism\, the death of the liberal consensus and birth of “movement conservatism.” \nProf. Richardson will be in conversation with Claire Bond Potter\, Ph.D.\, Professor of History Emeritus at The New School for Social Research in New York City\, and the author of the Political Junkie Substack and an associated podcast\, Why Now? She has written for the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Guardian\, the New Republic\, Yale Review\, and Dissent. Her most recent book is Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter\, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel. \nBONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of Democracy Awakening to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/fan-democracy-awakening-notes-on-the-state-of-america/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Adults,Age,Family Action Network
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