What We've Become 2024-25 Events
National Book Launch & Community Conversation of What We've Become by Jonathan Metzl

Millions of Conversations’ hosts.
Programming will include a book signing and community conversation with Jonathan Metzl, Melissa Harris Perry, Mayor Freddie O’Connell, Samar Ali, and Michael Eric Dyson.
Registration through this form is required to attend and seats are limited.
Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA

Harvard Book Store welcomes JONATHAN M. METZL — award-winning author of Dying of Whiteness—for a discussion of his new book What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms. He will be joined in conversation by BETH SIMONE NOVECK — first United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer under President Obama and director of the Burnes Center for Social Change at Northeastern University.
Politics & Prose, Washington, D.C.

Here are some photos from a great night @PoliticsProse speaking with @niamalikah
2nd Presbyterian Church, Nashville, TN — “On Gun Violence in America”
Plenary/keynote and session, American College of Psychiatrists' Annual Meeting, New Orleans Marriott
Rise and Shine TN, Nashville Book Club Reading and Event
Seminar at Vanderbilt University Center for Research on Inequality and Health
RSVP: Jonathan Metzl Book Launch

Book Launch: What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms
Center for Research on Inequality and Health
Vanderbilt University
Please join us for a presentation, discussion, and extended Q&A with Dr. Jonathan Metzl on his new book: What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms.
Jonathan Metzl with Florangela Davila: Reframing the Conversation on Gun Control, Seattle, WA

Reframing the Conversation on Gun Control
Cost:$5 – $25 Sliding Scale
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Annapolis Book Festival, Annapolis, MD
NCORE 2024, Hawaiʻi
The 36th Annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in Higher Education will be held on the beautiful island of Oʻahu.
Temple Sinai and Temple Rodef Shalom: Reframing the Conversation About Gun Safety and Gun Violence Prevention
The program will be via Zoom only. REGISTER HERE.
Freud’s 4pm Session: What We’ve Become
A talk by acclaimed physician and sociologist Jonathan Metzl. Talks are free with admission ticket.
The Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
University of Copenhagen Centre for Culture and the Mind, Copenhagen, Denmark
St. Cloud Conversations on Race in America, St. Cloud, MN
"October Surprise": What Could Derail Harris and Trump? - The Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco

IN-PERSON AND ONLINE. Join us for a panel conversation about the final weeks of the 2024 presidential election, and what our political experts expect to see on election day, November 5.
We’ll hear from Rachel Bitecofer, political scientist, pollster, and election forecaster turned political strategist; Jonathan M. Metzel, professor of sociology and psychiatry and the director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University; and Tara Setmayer, co-founder and chief executive officer of The Seneca Project, will join Ray Suarez to discuss the state of the race.
Clark Endowed Lecture, University of Kansas, Department of Sociology, Lawrence, KS
The Ethics of Repair Lecture Series, Center for Ethics, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
Park Street Corporation Series in Health, Humanity and Ethics at Boston College, Boston MA
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Southern Festival of Books, Nashville, TN
Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville TN
Ashrei Foundation Public Lecture Series, St. Louis, MO

Courageous Conversations: A Panel on the Impact of Gun Violence in our Community
The Ashrei Foundation and the Washington University Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity are proud to bring Dr. Jonathan Metzl, Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, the director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and gun policy scholar, to St. Louis.
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Book Talk: What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms

We welcome the St. Louis community to a Book Talk with author Dr. Jonathan Metzl on his new book, What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms, sponsored by the Ashrei Foundation and the Washington University Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity.