We invite you to join us for "1965: LBJ and the Great Society" tomorrow at 2 pm ET and later this week for a special webinar titled "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Policy and Strategy for the Unknown."

Our next two webinars are:

Join NAS tomorrow at 2 pm ET as we discuss "1965: LBJ and the Great Society."

In the mid-1960s, President Lyndon B. Johnson launched a series of domestic programs termed the "Great Society" that sought to rival the New Deal agenda of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Administration. The programs announced a "war on poverty" in addition to domestic priorities including civil rights (the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965), education (the Higher Education Act of 1963), health (the Social Security Act of 1965, which created Medicare and Medicaid, and the Food Stamp Act of 1964), the arts (the creation of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and the establishment of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting), transportation (the establishment of the Department of Transportation), and the environment (Water Quality Act of 1965, Clean Air Act of 1963, Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966, National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, and many more). The changes from the Great Society programs were sweeping, and many of the acts passed under President Johnson's "Great Society" still remain important programs and institutions today.

What results have Great Society programs obtained for the American people over the last 50 years? Have these programs been successful?

This event will feature Randall Woods, Cooper Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas; Julia Sweig, non-resident senior research fellow at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin and former senior fellow and Nelson and David Rockefeller Chair and Director for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations; and David Zarefsky, Emeritus Professor of Communication at Northwestern University and President of the Rhetoric Society of America. The discussion will be moderated by David Randall, Director of Research at the National Association of Scholars.

To learn more about the event, click here. 

Join NAS Thursday, March 31st, at 2 pm ET, as we discuss "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Policy and Strategy for the Unknown."

What risks do Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) pose to national, or global security? What are the prospects that mysterious objects in the sky, such as those encountered by multiple US military pilots, have otherworldly origins? Drawing from the fields of astrophysics, government, and international relations, this panel will examine the likelihood of whether UAPs are of an extraterrestrial origin and the implications that this possibility holds for science and security.

This webinar will feature Avi Loeb, the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University; Ian Oxnevad, Program Research Associate at the National Association of Scholars and author of "The Truth is Mostly Right Here: The Security Dilemma and the Earthly Logic of an Extraterrestrial Threat"; and Nick Pope, former Acting Deputy Director in the Directorate of Defence Security and former operational head of the UK Ministry of Defense UFO Program.

To learn more about the event, click here. 

If you can't attend the events live, you can still register to watch the recordings. All registrants will receive a follow-up email with a link to the recording shortly after each event.

If you have missed any of our past events or webinars, you may find all of our recordings here: https://www.youtube.com/user/NAScholars/videos.

I look forward to seeing you in the virtual audience!
 

Best,
Chance Layton
Director of Communications
National Association of Scholars