​Why winning anything now depends on relearning how to be with each other (using history and social science)

​Are you not sure what you should be doing, even as you know you should be doing something?

​We're facing crises that will take a real turning-around to survive: climate breakdown, creeping authoritarianism, and a handful of billionaires who own our economy and our technology. Fixing any of it means acting together. But after decades of isolation and frictionless, consumer-shaped living, many of us have lost the key social skills on which collective action depends.

​During this interactive lecture and Q&A, Dr. Sarah Stein Lubrano will lay out important and somewhat neglected social skills that historical social movements have developed in their members and reinforced through their practices, drawing on research and on movement history. She will give examples of how these skills have been deployed in the past and describe the infrastructure that can help rebuild these skills for the 21st century.

​We'd love you to attend live, but there will be a recording.

​Dr Sarah Stein Lubrano has a background in feminist activism, mutual aid, and other local organising as well as teaching in prisons. She holds a PhD from the University of Oxford and a Master’s degree from the University of Cambridge. She was previously the Head of Content at The School of Life and wrote obituaries. Her first book, Don’t Talk About Politics: Changing 21st Century Minds, is out now. That book and her forthcoming book delve into social atrophy, the shrinking and changing of the brain due to social isolation - and the societal problems that cause this.