I’ll be presenting on American Nations: The History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on October 31, starting at about 10 am.
It’s one of the keynote addresses at the university’s “Combating Polarization” symposium. It’s free and open to the public, but you do need to pre-register via the links here.
My co-presenters include Sara Konrath of Indiana University, who studies empathy and altruism, and UMass Amherst’s own Jamila Lysicott, assistant professor of social justice education. The idea is to better understand what polarizes communities — a public university campus, for instance — and how people can constructively interact in such an environment.
There are full details via the top link above.
COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author, historian and award-winning journalist. He is the author of seven books that have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and inspired an NBC television drama. He is currently Director of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Affairs at Salve Regina University. As State and National Affairs Writer at Maine's Portland Press Herald, he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a 2016 Pulitzer Prize. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.