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2019 Feb 26

MHS: Our Own Orient: Mecca, California and Dates

5:15pm

Location: 

Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215

MHS logoPresented by the Boston Seminar on Modern American Society and Culture and sponsored and hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Featuring: Eleanor Daly Finnegan, Harvard University

Comment: Laura Barraclough, Yale University 

 

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2019 Feb 27

History Department Seminar: “How Data Killed Facts” (The Historian as Public Intellectual Series)

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

35 Quincy Street, Robinson Hall, Lower Library

Speaker: Jill Lepore (David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History)

Talk Title: “How Data Killed Facts”

A presentation and conversation about the current epistemological crisis and its consequences for historical study and humanistic knowledge.

 

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