Perhaps more than any other trait, empathy defines what it is to be human. This installment of the Guggenheim Forum investigates the evolution of our basic ability to connect, its ability to cross boundaries ranging from those of culture to those of species, its relationship to morality, and how it is affected by the contemporary mediascape and the shattering and reconfiguration of social relations.
Panelists will include Meghan Falvey, a sociologist whose practice involves affective labor and inequality; G. Anthony Gorry, Friedkin Chair of Management and Professor of Computer Science at Rice University; University of Chicago neuroscientist Peggy Mason; and Lynne Soraya, journalist and author of the Asperger’s Diary blog for Psychology Today.
