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Join Us for Modern Romance
May 26, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
UNC Staff are invited to join the Employee Forum book club on May 26, 2016 from 12pm-1pm at Bulls Head Book Shop. We will discuss the book Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari. The book can be purchased at a special discount online or in the store at Bulls Head Book Shop.
Lunch will be provided with registration: http://tinyurl.com/hno8uql Please email employeeforum@unc.edu if you have special dietary concerns.
Description: For years, Aziz Ansari has been aiming his comic insight at modern romance, but for Modern Romance, the book, he decided he needed to take things to another level. He teamed up with NYU sociologist Eric Klinenberg and designed a massive research project, including hundreds of interviews and focus groups conducted everywhere from Tokyo to Buenos Aires to Wichita. They analyzed behavioral data and surveys and created their own online research forum on Reddit, which drew thousands of messages. They enlisted the world’s leading social scientists, including Andrew Cherlin, Eli Finkel, Helen Fisher, Sheena Iyengar, Barry Schwartz, Sherry Turkle, and Robb Willer. The result is unlike any social science or humor book we’ve seen before.
In Modern Romance, Ansari combines his irreverent humor with cutting-edge social science to give us an unforgettable tour of our new romantic world.