We invite you to join us tomorrow for the first webinar in our new American Innovation series and on Friday for the next installment in our Restoring the Sciences series. Plus, tune in next week for a discussion of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence!

More on our upcoming webinars:

Join NAS TOMORROW at 2 pm ET for the first webinar in our new American Innovation series: "The Steamboat and the Age of Industry."

The steamboat ushered in an age of unprecedented economic growth in the United States, as goods that were previously able to be shipped only slowly over land or one-way down America's rivers could now be shipped much more efficiently.

What role did the steamboat play in the growth of American industry? How did it change American manufacturing and production, and what consequences did it have for our nation's spread westward? Who were key figures in the development and application of steam power to water transportation?

This webinar will feature Kevin Crisman, Professor in the Nautical Archaeology program at Texas A&M University and Director of the Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation; Robert Gudmestad, Associate Professor of History at Colorado State University; and Paul Johnston, Curator of Maritime History at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

The discussion will be moderated by Matthew Schulte, Executive Director and CEO of the Steamship Historical Society of America.

To learn more about the event, click here. 

Join NAS this Friday, August 26, at 3 pm ET, for the next installment in our Restoring the Sciences webinar series: "What's Wrong with Science?"

The social justice agenda has swept through the sciences like a pandemic. Science now finds itself in the dock for racist and sexist sins, for failing to tie the theory of the electron to critical race theory, for ornery skepticism in the face of consensus on “settled science.” What once were virtues, like hard work, objectivity, and meritocracy, are now condemned as unwoke and even white supremacist. Science must now be intellectually cleansed.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is leading the charge, most prominently by Dr. Holden Thorp, Science magazine’s Editor-in-Chief. He has committed the AAAS to bringing science into conformity with the new reigning ideology. The membership of the AAAS seems to be going along with this.

But many scientists are pushing back—one example is Dr. Luana Maroja, Professor of Biology at Williams College in Massachusetts. She has challenged Holden Thorp’s assertions in an open debate at UNC, particularly on the cultural assumptions that underlay the ideological changes that are presently shaking the sciences. A native of Brazil, she brings an interesting and critical perspective to those assumptions.

This webinar will feature a fascinating conversation with Dr. Maroja about the ongoing battle over the future of science. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. J. Scott Turner, Director of the Intrusion of Diversity in the Sciences Project for the National Association of Scholars. 

To learn more about the event, click here. 

Join NAS next Tuesday, August 30, at 2 pm ET, for a discussion of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence.

“In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.”

What makes The Age of Innocence a great American novel? To what does the eponymous "age of innocence" refer? Who influenced Wharton's writings, and who did her writings influence?

This webinar will feature Candace Waid, Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Carol Singley, Professor of English at Rutgers University-Camden; and Sheila Liming, Associate Professor of Writing at Champlain College.

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. 

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