Miami Presents: Objects that Changed the World - The Model T with Steve Conn
This event has already taken place.
LIVE VIEWERS - You may need to refresh/reload this page at or just after the start time and click play in middle of video. Live captions will appear in the box below. To customize captioning experience, access event captions here.
Objects that Changed the World is a collaboration between the Miami University Humanities Center and the Alumni Association. Featuring Miami’s nationally recognized faculty in the humanities, each lecture is inspired by an object of such prevalence today it might be easily overlooked and develops original insights and novel lessons about the object in question. We invite all alumni to reconnect with faculty and to show their support for the Humanities Center’s mission to advocate for the central place of the humanities in both the university and wider society. If you are interested in financially supporting the Humanities Center and programs like these, please visit: www.givetomiamioh.org/
The Model T with Steve Conn
Perhaps no single object transformed American politics, landscape, and culture more than the automobile. The Model T started that transformation and in this lecture we'll trace its many influences.
Steve Conn is W.E. Smith Professor of History and is the author of numerous books on American history, most recently Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: The Sad History of American Business Schools (Cornell UP 2019).
The presentation is free to watch online, but registration is required. Please reach out to J.J. Slager, slagerjj@miamioh.edu, with questions.
| Register for this Free Event |
| Give to the Humanities Center |