{"id":6478,"date":"2024-04-24T14:54:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T18:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/?p=6478"},"modified":"2024-04-24T14:54:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T18:54:01","slug":"ace-festival-keynote-douglas-abrams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/2024\/04\/24\/ace-festival-keynote-douglas-abrams\/","title":{"rendered":"ACE Festival Keynote: Douglas Abrams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/24145242\/2024-04-17-ace-keynote-podcast.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Two Truths and Three Lies About Hope and Humanity<\/strong><br>ACE Festival Keynote featuring Douglas Abrams,\u00a0one of the authors of\u00a0<em>The Book of Hope<\/em>, EMU&#8217;s 2023-24 Common Read.\u00a0<br><br><strong>In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope?<\/strong>\u00a0New York Times-bestselling author Doug Abrams will examine this most sought-after and least-understood element of human nature. He will explore the importance of hope in our lives and how to cultivate it personally and collectively when we need it most. Through sharing little-known truths and confronting the widespread lies about the future of humanity, Doug invites the listener to see hope not as a passive or weak response, but as an act of resistance that challenges the status quo. The talk will draw on his work writing\u00a0<em>The Book of Hope<\/em>\u00a0with Jane Goodall, as well as his collaborations with the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Stephen Hawking, Nelson Mandela, Bryan Stevenson, and many other leading spiritual teachers, activists, and scientists.<br>Doug Abrams is a multiple New York Times-bestselling author, as well as an editor, literary agent, and film producer. He is the founder and president of Idea Architects, a creative book and media agency helping visionaries create a wiser, healthier, and more just world.\u00a0<br><br>He co-wrote\u00a0<em>The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World<\/em>\u00a0with the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu which inspired the film\u00a0<em>MISSION: JOY<\/em>, now on Netflix. Doug served as the interviewer in the film as well as an Executive Producer. Doug also co-authored\u00a0<em>The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times<\/em>\u00a0with Jane Goodall. (<em>The Book of Hope<\/em>\u00a0is EMU\u2019s Common Read selection for 2023-24.) He has also written many other bestselling non-fiction books and has written two novels,\u00a0<em>The Lost Diary of Don Juan<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Eye of the Whale<\/em>, which together have been translated into over thirty languages.\u00a0<br><br>Books and films he has developed have been credited with convincing then-President Bill Clinton to stop the genocide in Kosovo (<em>THE BRIDGE BETRAYED<\/em>), for launching the modern anti-slavery movement (<em>DISPOSABLE PEOPLE<\/em>), for helping to expand a mass incarceration reform movement (<em>JUST MERCY<\/em>, a book by Bryan Stevenson and film starring Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx), and for helping to address our environmental crisis (<em>THE FUTURE WE CHOOSE, TWO WORLDS<\/em>, which inspired a near future grounded sci-fi feature film being developed with the Obamas\u2019 Higher Ground Productions for Netflix).<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"emu-podcast-embed\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/24145242\/2024-04-17-ace-keynote-podcast.mp3\"><\/audio><\/div><p>Two Truths and Three Lies About Hope and HumanityACE Festival Keynote featuring Douglas Abrams,\u00a0one of the authors of\u00a0The Book of Hope, EMU&#8217;s 2023-24 Common Read.\u00a0 In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope?\u00a0New York Times-bestselling author Doug Abrams will examine this most sought-after and least-understood element of human nature.....<\/p>","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104,4307],"tags":[5071,5247],"class_list":["post-6478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convocation","category-other-speaking-events","tag-ace-festival","tag-douglas-abrams","has-post-thumbnail","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6480,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6478\/revisions\/6480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}