Join NAS for "Transforming the Airwaves," "The New Trivium,"and "The Case Against Public Science"
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Join NAS for "Transforming the Airwaves,"
"The New Trivium,"and
"The Case Against Public Science"
Dear John,
We invite you to join the National Association of Scholars tomorrow at 2 pm ET for a discussion on the invention of the radio ([link removed]) . On Thursday at 3 pm ET, we'll be hosting Mark Stahlman for a conversation on "The New Trivium. ([link removed]) " And be sure to join us this Friday, August 18, at 1 pm ET for a discussion of China's influence on American education ([link removed]) .
More on our upcoming webinars and additional events:
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Join the National Association of Scholars on Tuesday, August 15, at 2 pm ET for "Transforming the Airwaves: The Radio."
After the transmission of human voices via electricity and wires with the telephone, the next step was the transmission of voice via the air. With a flurry of activity, a series of devices was created which would become the radio.
What is the story behind the radio's development? What social and technological effects did it have when it was introduced? And how did the development of radio lead to new technologies such as television?
This event will feature Susan Douglas, a prize-winning author, columnist, and cultural critic, and the Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor of Communication Studies at The University of Michigan; Donna Halper, a renowned historian and radio consultant; and Tom Lewis, the author of Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio.
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Join the National Association of Scholars on Thursday, August 17, at 3 pm ET for the next edition of our Restoring the Sciences webinar series, "The New Trivium: West, East, and Digital."
In the medieval university, the trivium was the gateway to the liberal arts, which encompassed the disciplines of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. The modern university still aspires to the ideal set by its medieval predecessors, but are these still instruments of the liberal arts?
The medieval university arose from a new technology of communication, the printing press. We are now in the midst of another communications revolution. Is it time for a new trivium, consisting of the alphabetic (west), pictographic (east), and digital languages?
We will be discussing an early version of “cancel culture” experienced by Norbert Wiener after he refused to apply cybernetics to "social problems." Wiener was a victim of a poorly understood "paradigm-shift" over digital technology. The implications of this are still playing out today in our present conundra over artificial intelligence and the accompanying "Human Use of Human Beings," which were strongly foreshadowed in Wiener's life. Today, there are even more far-reaching psychological and social implications.
This event will feature Mark Stahlman, the president of the Center for the Study of Digital Life (CSDL) and CEO of the strategic risk assessment firm Exogenous, Inc (EXO). He is a retired Wall Street technology strategist/banker, who trained to be a Molecular Biologist (University of Wisconsin Madison) and theologian (University of Chicago). His father, William, was a historian of ancient mathematics, an expert on Ptolemy, and a protégé of the pioneer of cybernetics, Norbert Wiener, at MIT.
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Join the National Association of Scholars on Friday, August 18, at 1 pm ET to learn more about the past and present extent of Chinese influence in American K-12 education.
The full extent of Chinese influence in American education is unknown. Sparse restrictions and meager oversight have allowed China to build a vast influence operation in our schools. While forward-looking Americans have worked hard to untangle the mess and extract China from educating our children, others fight to keep its presence, with the belief that it is a benign influence in American K-12 and higher education.
In this webinar, we will examine the historical precedent of China’s influence in American K-12 education against other foreign entities, along with the risks to national security and interest posed by China’s involvement in our education system. This event will also discuss China’s influence in the K-12 classroom in an environment of educational polarization.
This event will feature John Metz, Executive Director of the Athenai Institute; and Ian Oxnevad, Senior Fellow for Foreign Affairs and Security Studies at the National Association of Scholars. This event will be moderated by Neetu Arnold, a Research Fellow at the National Association of Scholars.
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Join the National Association of Scholars on Monday, August 21, at 3 pm ET for the rescheduled event, "The Case Against Public Science."
Has generous public funding been good for science? Or has it been a detriment?
Terence Kealey has argued for the latter, which he outlined in his provocative 2013 essay “The Case against Public Science ([link removed]) ," part of an essay series on Who Pays for Science? in Cato Unbound. He argues that science does not need public funding to prosper, and that public support of science has largely subsidized institutional rent-seeking by universities and government agencies, and has failed to deliver on the promise of promoting scientific breakthroughs. As such, public science funding has become just another form of corporate institutional welfare.
This event will feature Terence Kealey, professor emeritus of clinical biochemistry at the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom, where he served as vice chancellor until 2014. The University of Buckingham is the only private university in the United Kingdom. Since then, Terence Kealey has been affiliated with the Cato Institute, where he continues to analyze science policy. Kealey has an extensive background in the economics of science and university administration.
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Join the National Association of Scholars on Friday, August 25, at 3 pm ET to discuss “Restoring the Sciences: Rethinking Climate Risk.”
Why do we have a “climate emergency"? Is it real? Or is it a fantasy?
Judith A. Curry, one of our nation’s most prominent climate scientists, takes a sober look at the risks posed by a changing climate, how we assess the risks, the uncertainties, and the likely damage from the determined push to make “climate” a “climate emergency.”
This event will feature Judith A. Curry, Professor Emerita of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech, author of Climate Uncertainty and Risk: Rethinking our Response ([link removed]) , and President of the Climate Forecast Applications Network ([link removed]) . Joining us as co-host for the webinar will be Kathryn Kelly, President of Delta Toxicology, Inc., and co-chair of the National Association of Scholars’ Nevada Chapter.
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I look forward to seeing you in the virtual audience!
Best,
Chance Layton
Director of Communications
National Association of Scholars
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