We invite you to join us tomorrow for the next installment in our American Innovation webinar series. Plus, tune in next week for discussions of Herman Melville's Typee, Robert Nisbet's political philosophy, and modern evolutionism!

More on our upcoming webinars:

Join NAS TOMORROW at 2 pm ET for a discussion of "The Age of the Automobile."

The first automobiles were built in the 1800s, but it wasn't until the early 1900s, with the creation of Henry Ford's Model T, that automobiles began to be commonly used and owned. Before long, the automobile had revolutionized American life.

How did Henry Ford popularize the automobile in America? How were automobiles viewed when they were first introduced and how did this perception change over time? How did the interstate highway system develop, and was it built to accommodate cars of the day, or were cars modified to make overland travel more feasible?

This webinar will feature John Heitmann, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Dayton and former President and Board Member of the Society of Automotive Historians; Dan Albert, author of Are We There Yet? The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless; and Tom Lewis, Professor of English at Skidmore 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. 

Join NAS next Tuesday, October 25, at 2 pm ET for a discussion of Herman Melville's Typee.

“A high degree of refinement, however, does not seem to subdue our wicked propensities so much after all; and were civilization itself to be estimated by some of its results, it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous part of the world to remain unchanged.”

What makes Typee a great American novel? How does it compare to Melville's later works? Who influenced Melville's writings, and who did his writings influence?

The webinar will feature Steven Olsen-Smith, Professor of English at Boise State University and General Editor of Melville's Marginalia Online, and Matthew Rebhorn, Professor of English at James Madison University and Executive Secretary of the Melville Society. 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 next Thursday, October 27, at 2 pm ET for the third webinar in our new series on conservative political thought: "Right Ideas: Robert Nisbet."

Robert Nisbet (1913–1996) was an American sociologist, conservative thinker, and the author of dozens of books over the course of his long career, including The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom, The Sociological Tradition, and Conservatism: Dream and Reality.

Counted among the great 20th century conservatives, Nisbet’s thought was unique and useful to thinkers across the political spectrum. In its obituary of Nisbet, the New York Times noted that "although he was widely hailed as an intellectual mentor of the American right ... the brand of conservatism he espoused was so rarefied and remote from modern political trends that one of his first major works, The Quest for Community, first published in 1953, became something of a cult classic among counterculture radicals."

Joining us to discuss this unique thinker is Brad Birzer, Professor of History and Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies at Hillsdale College; Samuel Goldman, Associate Professor of Political Science at George Washington University and Literary Editor of Modern Age; and Luke C. Sheahan, Assistant Professor of Political Science as Duquesne University and Editor of the University Bookman.

The discussion will be moderated by John Sailer, Research Fellow at the National Association of Scholars.

To learn more about the event, click here. 

Join NAS next Friday, October 28, at 3 pm ET for a discussion of "Saving Evolution from Itself."

What, precisely, do we mean by the word “evolution”? Is Darwinism one thing, or many? Is Darwinism science, or is it something else entirely?

University of Alabama at Birmingham Professor Emeritus Michael Flannery is author of Nature’s Prophet: Alfred Russel Wallace and His Evolution from Natural Selection to Natural Theology and “Strong and Weak Teleology in the Life Sciences Post-Darwin.” He has thought deeply on all these questions, in particular the philosophical roots of modern evolutionism, the history of Darwinism, its relationship to the thought of Alfred Russel Wallace, and the problematic concept of teleology (goal-directedness) in life and evolution.

This sixth installment in the Restoring the Sciences webinar series will feature a wide-ranging and penetrating discussion with Professor Flannery about one of science's modern dogmas. The discussion will be moderated by 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. 

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