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Author Discusses 'How Stories Make Us Human'



Jonathan Gottschall argues that stories “help us navigate life’s complex social problems—just as flight simulators prepare pilots for difficult situations.”

The author and literary scholar from Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania discusses his newest book, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human, at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3 in the Remick Heritage Center at Alma College.

Admission is free and open to the public.

  Jonathan Gottschall

Gottschall’s works have been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Scientific American Mind, Chronicle of Higher Education and Nature. Psychology Today features his blog, “The Storytelling Animal.”

He also is the author of Literature, Science and a New Humanities (2008), The Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence and the World of Homer (2008) and The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative (2005), edited with David Sloan Wilson.

For more information, visit: http://jonathangottschall.com/.

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Posted: Tue, September 25th, 2012 at 12:34AM

 

In December 2011, Alma College students, faculty and staff designed and hosted a conference in Washington, D.C., on the 500th anniversary of human rights advocacy. Earlier in the year, Alma College became one of the first undergraduate colleges in the United States to belong to the International Criminal Court Student Network, joining Duke University School of Law, The University of Cambridge and other prestigious institutions in a global community that connects students who share an interest in the ICC.

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Student Profile

Emily Hollenberg

Emily Hollenberg
Graduation: 2014
Major: English

Whether she’s reading a Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller or penning a novel of her own, Indiana junior Emily Hollenberg’s native language is literature.

“I’ve loved English my whole life, and once I outgrew the firefighter stage, I knew I wanted to teach it,” she says. “I would like to be a high school teacher and also continue to write, whether as a novelist, poet or blogger. You can express yourself in a different way through reading and writing. They transport you to a different world for a while.”

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