Humanities on the Hill: Anand Pandian & Hahrie Han

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The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute presents Humanities on the Hill in partnership with East City Bookshop featuring Anand Pandian, professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, in conversation with Hahrie Han, director of the university's SNF Agora Institute, about his recent book, Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down (Stanford University Press).

For his book, Pandian crisscrossed the country—from Fargo, North Dakota, to Denton, Texas, from southern California to upstate New York—seeking out fellow Americans with markedly different social and political commitments, trying to understand the forces that have hardened our suspicions of others. The result is Something Between Us, a groundbreaking and ultimately hopeful exploration of the ruptures in our social fabric, and courageous efforts to rebuild a collective life beyond them.

Copies of Something Between Us and a curated selection of related titles will be available for purchase at the event.