Presenting on American Nations and health outcomes, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, Sept. 27
Keck Center of the National Academies 500 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, DC, United StatesI'll be presenting at the National Academy of Sciences Roundtable on Obesity Solutions meeting September 27 in Washington, DC. My role is to discuss the influence of regional cultures in the observed distribution of obesity and other health factors, which I and c-authors at the University of Illinois-Chicago and the University of Minnesota published on... Read more »
Presenting American Nations at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, Oct. 17
Kenyon College Gambier, OH, United StatesI'll be speaking about the rival regional cultures of North America described in American Nations -- and how we overcome the resulting problems for U.S. nationhood -- at Kenyon College's Center for the Study of American Democracy on the evening of October 17th. More details to follow.
Speaking on Union and the fraught effort to create a U.S. national story; Columbia, S.C., Oct. 26
University of South Carolina Columbia, SC, United StatesI'll be speaking about Union and the fraught effort to create a U.S. national story -- from scratch -- starting in the 1830s at the University of South Carolina's Humanities Collaborative in Columbia, S.C. the evening of Oct. 26. More details to follow.
Speaking on the American Nations trilogy at National Defense University, Washington, DC, Dec. 6 (private)
National Defense University Fort McNair, Washington, DC, United StatesI will be making my annual speech to the American Studies international fellows at National Defense University in Washington, D.C.. for the fourth year running. This is a private event closed to public.