Glenview, IL
Join FAN for this in-person event at Evanston Township High School. Fan will distribute 200 free copies of Churn: The Tension That Divides Us and How to Overcome It,one per household, at the event.The event will recorded and uploaded to the FAN website but will not live streamed.No registration required. 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. Opening 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. Too 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 This event is suitable for youth 12+. This program is presented in partnership with Family Action Network (FAN). FAN is a 501(c)(3) organization that curates a high-quality speaker series each academic year. All FAN programs are free and open to the public.
