Book Talk | Niobe Way | Rebels with a Cause

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge, the Center on Modernity in Transition, and the Project for the Advancement of Our Common Humanity on Wednesday, May 7th at 5:30 PM for a book talk with Niobe Way. She will discuss her new book Rebels with a Cause: Reimagining Boys, Ourselves, and Our Culture with Carol Gilligan and Shahrzad Sabet. The conversation will focus on what the book teaches us about our oneness as human beings and how we can create a culture that better aligns with human needs. This event builds on IPK’s Symposium on Human Oneness taking place February 6-7.

Niobe Way is Professor of Developmental Psychology at NYU, the founder of the Project for the Advancement of Our Common Humanity (PACH; pach.org), creative advisor of agapi, and the Principal Investigator on the Listening Project. She was the President of the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA), received her B.A. from U.C. Berkeley, her doctorate from the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University, and was a National Institute of Mental Health postdoctoral fellow at Yale University in the psychology department.

Her work focuses on social and emotional development and how cultural ideologies shape families and child development in the U.S. and China. She has been researching social and emotional development of adolescents for 35 years, and has authored or co-authored over one hundred peer reviewed journal articles and seven single authored, co-authored, or co-edited books.

Carol Gilligan is a psychologist and writer, and her groundbreaking book In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development has been translated into 18 languages. With her students, she coauthored and coedited four books on women’s psychology and girls’ development: Meeting at the Crossroads, Between Voice and Silence, Making Connections, and Women, Girls, and Psychotherapy: Reframing Resistance. At Harvard University, where she was the first Graham Professor of Gender Studies, her award-winning research led to the founding of the university’s Center on Gender and Education. She is now University Professor at New York University and lives with her husband in New York City and the Berkshires.

Shahrzad Sabet is Co-Director of the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT) and a Fellow at New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge. Her research and training span a variety of disciplines, including political science, philosophy, economics, and psychology. She has held positions at Princeton University, the University of Maryland, and Harvard University, where she received her PhD, and her work has been featured in outlets such as The New York Times and the Washington Post. She is currently working on a book entitled The Crisis of Identity: The Case for Human Oneness, which argues that only a universal human identity can fundamentally resolve the tensions around group identities, and reconcile the oneness and diversity of humankind.