Demystifying Rural America - Steven Conn

Schedule

Mon Nov 25 2024 at 06:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

University of New England Portland Campus, Innovation Hall, 716 Stevens Avenue, Portland, Maine 04103 | Portland, ME

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Free and open to the public. There will be a reception at 5 P.M. at Innovation Hall.
It seems everyone has an opinion about rural America. Is it gripped in a tragic decline? Or is it on the cusp of a glorious revival? Is it the key to understanding America today? In this lecture, historian Steven Conn will argue that we’re missing the real question: Is rural America even a thing? Conn will argue that it is not, explaining how we only see what we want to see in the lands beyond the suburbs—fantasies about moral (or backward) communities, simpler (or repressive) living, and what it means to be authentically (or wrongheadedly) American. If we want to build a better future, Conn will argue, we must accept that these visions don’t exist and never did. Drawing from his recent book, The Lies of the Land, Conn will explain how rural America—so often characterized as in crisis or in danger of being left behind—has actually been at the center of modern American history, shaped by the same forces as the rest of the country: militarization, industrialization, corporatization, and suburbanization. Ultimately, Conn will invite attendees to dispense with the common lies and half-truths about rural America and to pursue better solutions to the real challenges we face throughout our nation.
Biography
Steven Conn is the W. E. Smith Professor of History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is the author of many books, including The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is – and Isn’t, Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century, and Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: The Sad History of American Business Schools, as well as many articles, reviews, and essays. In addition, he is the founding editor of the on-line magazine Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective and its spin off Picturing Black History a collaboration with Getty Images. He has lectured all over the country and around the world.
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University of New England Portland Campus, Innovation Hall, 716 Stevens Avenue, Portland, Maine 04103, United States

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