Embracing the Stranger

  • June 16, 2015
  • 6:00 PM CST
  • Mary Arhondonis at, luma@luc.edu or 312.915.7608.
  • $5 (Members & LUC: Free)
  • Open to the public.
  • http://luc.edu/luma/education_outreach/publicprogramsandevents/embracingthestranger.shtml
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    LUMA Summer Exhibitions 2015

    In their professional work, social workers are always working with strangers. Through their working relationships, social workers must embrace a client's anxieties and fears so that these feelings can dissipate. Dr. Jeanne Sokolec, professor at the Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work, will discuss how strangers are often those that we fear because they may be different from us, or an unknown entity. Yet, over the centuries we have been taught that it is our duty to embrace strangers with graciousness. It is only by placing our concerns aside that we can discover that differences are not bad and, more importantly, that who we see as a stranger often sees us in the same light.

    Image: Jeromy and Matthew, 2011, Columbus, OH, from Touching Strangers (Aperture, May 2014). © Richard Renaldi.