2026-2027 Book Talk Events

Register for the event here by October 9, 2026

Join Dr. Selwyn O. Rogers, MD. MPH, founding Director of the University of Chicago Medicine Trauma Center, for a conversation about his book "Healing the Gun Violence Epidemic." Drawing on decades as a trauma surgeon, Dr. Rogers examines gun violence as a preventable public health crisis and offers a vision for rebuilding safer communities.

Featuring discussant: Franklin Cosey-Gay, Project Director of the Chicago Center for Youth Violence Prevention

Register for the event here by November 1, 2026.

Join Angela S. Garcia, Associate Professor in the University of Chicago's Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, and Associated Faculty in Sociology, for a conversation about her book "Enduring Illegality." Professor Garcia utilizes her many years of research with undocumented immigrants to reveal how prolonged legal uncertainty shapes family life, caregiving, work, and belonging across generations.

Register for the event here by January 18, 2027.

Join Nicholas Epley, the John Templeton Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavior Science, and Director of the Roman Family Center for Decision Research at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, for a conversation about his book, "A Little More Social." Professor Epley draws on decades of behavioral science research to show how small acts of social connection can improve our happiness, health, and sense of belonging.

Register for the event here by April 9, 2027.

Join Rashauna Johnson, a historian of the 19th -century African diaspora and a Professor of U.S. History in the Department of History, and for The College, at the University of Chicago, for a conversation about her book "Sweet Home Feliciana." Professor Johnson weaves family history, archival research, and personal narrative to explore how slavery, colonialism, and Black resilience shaped generations in rural Louisiana.