Anne Marie Chaker '97

Lift

On Campus in September (Date & Time: To be Determined)

Purchase Lift

In Lift, Chaker explores the forces that have led generations of women to internalize the message that they should make themselves smaller and explains why, instead, building muscle not only creates long lasting health, but also empowers us. Along the way, she highlights research that dismantles the conventional story of women’s bodies. As Chaker argues, strength training can help women find true power and confidence that goes far beyond how we look: it can dramatically shift how we move through the world, reshape how we respond to setbacks, and transform how we see our value. And science shows that increasing muscle mass can help protect women’s bodies from the effects of aging. Most important, it rewrites the message we send the next generation once and for all and will help girls step into their power from a young age.

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  Tovah Klein

Raising Resilience: How to Help our Children Thrive in Times of Uncertainty

September 10th
Online on  Zoom

6:30 - 7:30 PM (ET)

Purchase Raising Resilience

Professor Tovah P. Klein is the Director of the Barnard College Center for Toddler Development and Adjunct Associate Professor. She joined the Barnard psychology faculty in 1995. She teaches a year-long course on research and theory in toddler development.

Raising Resilience offers parents five strategies that show children how to develop the inner resources to face adversity, adjust, and thrive, instead of falter and break down. Drawing on research on trauma and its impact on emotional and intellectual development, including her own findings, Dr. Klein offers a lifeline for every family contending with life’s many stresses and traumas—from the most devastating to the most commonplace, including peer conflicts, divorce, moving, academic struggles, and larger national events.

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Marguerite Sheffer '09

December 10th
Online on Zoom

6:30 - 7:30 PM (ET)

Purchase The Man in the Banana Trees

The stories in The Man in the Banana Trees take place in the past, present, and future—from the American Gulf South to the orbit around Jupiter. We meet teachers and students, ghosts and aliens. An ice cream consultant in the year 2036 predicts a devastating flavor trend and a disgruntled New England waiter investigates a mysterious tanker crash. Although wildly varied in setting, length, and genre, a thread of the fantastic unites these stories, as characters struggle to understand that thing lurking at the edge of their perception: something sinister, or maybe—miraculous.

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