{"id":56298,"date":"2024-04-09T14:56:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T18:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=56298"},"modified":"2024-04-09T15:43:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T19:43:34","slug":"douglas-abrams-author-of-the-book-of-hope-with-jane-goodall-to-headline-ace-festival-keynote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2024\/douglas-abrams-author-of-the-book-of-hope-with-jane-goodall-to-headline-ace-festival-keynote\/","title":{"rendered":"Douglas Abrams, author of &#8216;The Book of Hope&#8217; with Jane Goodall, to headline ACE Festival keynote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Date: <\/strong>Wednesday, April 17, 2024<br \/><strong>Time: <\/strong>10:10 a.m.<br \/><strong>Location: <\/strong>Lehman Auditorium<br \/><strong>Admission:<\/strong> Free and open to the public<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>New York Times<\/em>-bestselling author <strong>Douglas Abrams<\/strong>, who has worked with many of the most inspiring people on the planet \u2014 from Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama to Stephen Hawking and Jane Goodall \u2014 is the keynote speaker for EMU\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/academics\/academic-and-creative-excellence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Academic &amp; Creative Excellence (ACE) Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abrams will deliver a virtual address titled \u201cTwo Truths and Three Lies About Hope and Humanity\u201d from 10:10 to 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 17, in Lehman Auditorium. His address explores the importance of hope in our lives and how to cultivate it personally and collectively when we need it most. It invites audiences to see hope not as a passive or weak response, but as an act of resistance that challenges the status quo. Following his address, Abrams will remain available for a talkback session until 11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The talk will draw on his work writing <em>The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times <\/em>(2021) with Goodall (EMU\u2019s Common Read selection for 2023-2024) as well as his collaborations with leading spiritual teachers, activists and scientists. Together with the Dalai Lama and Tutu, Abrams co-wrote <em>The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World<\/em> (2016), which inspired the documentary <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14779306\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mission: Joy<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abrams lives in Santa Cruz, California.&nbsp;He is the founder of Idea Architects, a literary agency and media development company that helps visionaries create a wiser, healthier and more just world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He worked with Tutu as his co-writer and editor for more than a decade. He was a senior editor at HarperCollins Publishers and served for nine years as the religion editor at the University of California Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the ACE Festival<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The ACE Festival invites keynote speakers to engage the community in conversations around values important to us at EMU. The speaker is typically selected with the themes of the year\u2019s Common Read in mind. We invite engagement and response from diverse perspectives, and encourage continued conversation around these themes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This event is co-sponsored by EMU Convocation and the Language and Literature Program. It will be livestreamed on Facebook Live from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EasternMennonite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EMU Facebook page<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2024Time: 10:10 a.m.Location: Lehman AuditoriumAdmission: Free and open to the public New York Times-bestselling author Douglas Abrams, who has worked with many of the most inspiring <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2024\/douglas-abrams-author-of-the-book-of-hope-with-jane-goodall-to-headline-ace-festival-keynote\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Douglas Abrams, author of &#8216;The Book of Hope&#8217; with Jane Goodall, to headline ACE Festival keynote<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":302,"featured_media":56299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4515,5583,5861,17562,356,5730],"tags":[18086,17823,18085,15927,5868,18087,10556,18082,18084,14563,18083],"feature":[17427,17426,17241,17422],"class_list":["post-56298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-campus-community","category-conferences-and-events","category-digest","category-language-and-literature","category-undergraduate-programs","tag-academic-and-creative-excellence-festival","tag-ace-festival","tag-author","tag-common-read","tag-convocation","tag-dalai-lama","tag-desmond-tutu","tag-douglas-abrams","tag-jane-goodall","tag-language-and-literature","tag-the-book-of-hope","feature-emu-home-page-feature","feature-myemu-feature","feature-news-feature","feature-news-landing-page-main-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Douglas Abrams, author of &#039;The Book of Hope&#039; 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