Tuesday, September 19, 2023, 7:00 PM CT Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health featuring Anupam Bapu Jena, MD, Ph.D. and Robert Kolker. Why do kids born in the summer get diagnosed more often with ADHD and the flu? How are marathons harmful for your health, even when you're […]
Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic and What We Can Do About It, featuring Jennifer Breheny Wallace and Denise Dubravec. The event will take place at New Trier High School, Northfield Campus, Cornog Auditorium, 7 Happ Rd., Northfield, IL 60093. NOTE: First 100 households will receive a free copy of Never Enough. Books will also be on sale. No […]
In Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal, Bettina L. Love, Ph.D. argues forcefully that, with the release of the 1983 report “A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform,” Ronald Reagan’s presidency ushered in a War on Black Children, pathologizing and penalizing them in concert with the War on Drugs. New […]
Myisha Cherry, Ph.D. Associate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside and director of the Emotion and Society Lab. Danté Stewart Theologian, essayist, cultural critic, and author of Shoutin' In The Fire: An American Epistle. Thursday, October 5, 2023, 7:00 PM (on Zoom) Register: www.bit.ly/CherryFANWebinar PLUS: After-Hours Event! Purchase a copy of Failures […]
